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DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Rethugs Capitulate On Hegseth. You were expecting anything different?: The seriousness and breadth of the allegations against him — from sexual assault to excessive drinking to sheer lack of experience — demand the most searching and responsible of inquiries. Instead, the Hegseth nomination has largely produced reflexive party-line salutes. What unfolded during […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Trump Would Have Been Convicted–DOJ Report: If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results, special counsel Jack Smith said in a report released early Tuesday. For 137 pages, Smith detailed the incriminating […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Spoiler Alert: The first two paragraphs of this article have been cut-and-pasted from 2023. With, of course, the dates changed to reflect this year’s legislative calendar. Today’s Opening Session is merely ceremonial. Swearing-in of the Senators and the Reps, followed by receptions, and pictures with families and friends. For all you legislative newbies out there, […]
The Final Legislative Pre-File*
*Before the new General Assembly is sworn in tomorrow. They consist of bills filed on January 9 and 10. You can find them all here. The highlight, of course, is the bill creating the Office Of Inspector General: This Act establishes an independent and nonpartisan Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the position of […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, January 13, 2025
Bannon Vs. Musk. Can we root for two losers?: President-elect Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this past week, Bannon […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 12, 2025
Dog Bites Man: Delaware Rethugs Disgrace Themselves: South Carolina House Republican Nancy Mace spoke at a private Delaware GOP event in Newark Friday following controversy with Congresswoman Sarah McBride. Mace filed a bill in November that would ban transgender women from using facilities on federal property that do not correspond with the sex assigned at […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 11, 2025
How Michigan ‘Moderates’ Foiled Progressive Legislative Agenda. Controlled all three branches of government, but watered down agenda for electoral reasons. Then lost: Michigan Democrats led all branches of government for the past two years, for the first time in about four decades, and they started with a multibillion-dollar budget surplus to boot. But the trifecta […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 10, 2025
Supreme Court (Barely) Refuses To Postpone Trump Sentencing. 5-4: A closely divided Supreme Court refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to face judgment in a New York courtroom on Friday and to be formally classified as a felon before he returns to the White […]
RIP: John Daniello
I think I first met him in my parents’ living room circa 1964. I would have been thirteen at the time. He was running for a spot on New Castle County Levy Court, and I remember him saying he was ‘running to get rid of my job’. Meaning, running to seek a different kind of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 9, 2025
The Horrific SoCal Fires. Trump blame Dems for disaster: “Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Anybody with a first-hand report on the BHL festivities? Snark permitted, welcome, even. How The Cops Kept Kevin Hensley’s Name Out Of The Paper. Both Cris Barrish and Karl Baker report the story. I’m going with Cris b/c I umped him back in the Brandywine Little League: Four days after being elected to a sixth […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Election Scofflaw Becomes Governor Today. Because only the voters did their jobs. Let the Vanity Governorship begin. The John Carney Interview. OK, kids, here is your assignment for today. Read this interview, which is must-reading, then point out the bullshit Carney spews. Sure, I could point out my favorite lies, but it’s more fun to […]
Over-Analyzing The First Legislative Pre-File
It’s what I do, and it’s what I like to do. Here are all the bills that have been introduced so far. The Senate pre-file is mostly the Darius Brown pre-file. We’ll get to that in a sec. But there are two notable House bills I want to address first. HB 140 (Morrison) is essentially […]
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