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NYTimes: Trump Officials Fed Nunes Intel That Nunes Fed Back to White House
Jesus H. Christ: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news The takeaway: A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies. Several current American […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 30, 2017
Time stands still this afternoon at 2:30 as John Carney applies his monotone to his monochromatic budget address in the Senate Chamber. It must be said again: Carney’s lack of vision is shocking. This is a bean counter’s proposal. A percentage of this, a percentage of that. No thought given to prioritizing what’s most important […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 28, 2017
So, it turns out that the killing of the death penalty was not final. When the Delaware Supreme Court held that the statute was unconstitutional, it was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Or, bull-headed legislators. Hence, the “Extreme Crimes Prevention Act”, which the News-Journal reports will be introduced next week. […]
Why the Rethugs HAD to Push Obamacare Repeal First
Because the repeal would have yielded the big pot of money they needed to enact permanent tax cuts. Check out this must-read analysis from the Washington Post. Oh, and subscribe. At least to the Post and to the Times. We need great journalism now more than ever. Here are a couple of key excerpts: But […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 23, 2017
“Shared Sacrifice”. Does that phrase sound familiar? It is the phrase that Gov. Jack Markell used during the economic crisis of 2008 and beyond. It meant that all Delawareans would have to share in the pain in order lift Delaware out of the economic recession. It is the exact same phrase that Gov. Carney has […]
BREAKING! Manafort Was Putin’s Proctologist
No wonder Trump’s mouthpieces are trying to minimize the role of Trump’s former campaign chair: https://www.apnews.com/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a/Manafort According to the AP, Manafort was directly working as a lobbyist on behalf of Vladimir Putin as far back as 2005, which directly contradicts administration assertions that no campaign official had any direct contact with Russia: President Donald Trump’s […]
I’m Calling It: Trumpcare Going DOWWWNN!
My self-imposed exile from the news shows having (temporarily?) ended, I watched a lot of coverage of the Trumpcare battle the last couple of days, and also read the reports in the papers. I can only reach one conclusion. If a vote is held on Thursday, Trumpcare is going down, and maybe going down YUGE. […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 22, 2017
Quite the productive legislative day. Perhaps the first one this year. The House passed Rep. Bentz’ access to TANF bill with only one no vote: Sussex County’s Rich Collins. Sean Matthews scored a two-fer with the passage of his bill to forestall dropping out of school (Briggs King and Yearick voted no, Spiegelman went not […]
General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 21, 2017
16 tons of bullshit and whaddayaget? Another day older and $35.6 million deeper in debt. The budget hole is up to $386 mill and counting. Hey, I’ve got an idea. Why not do a property tax revision on Delaware properties owned by those who do not officially reside in Delaware? And, of course, propose two […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 15, 2017
So many questions.
Will John Carney propose a budget before or after his Endless Coffee Klatch Tour? It now extends into late April. The tour, that is.
What, if any, proposals will members of the General Assembly introduce to close the $350 million budget gap?
Will Jellyfish John permit Sen. Nicole Poore to singlehandedly end the term of Patrice Gilliam-Johnson as Secretary of Labor?
Delaware Elections 2018: United States Senate, aka the Race to Change the Face of Delaware Politics
This race has the potential to be the most important Delaware race in at least 45 years. In 1972, upstart Joe Biden defeated incumbent US Senator J. Caleb Boggs in a year where the D’s suffered defeat after defeat (It was the Nixon defeats McGovern presidential landslide). It’s quite possible that the 2018 US Senatorial […]
Our First Look At Delaware Elections 2018
Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll be examining every key 2018 race in depth. However, to get the juices flowing and to get the grassroots recruiting, today we’ll list every race that will be on the 2018 ballot. Uh, except for row offices, which really should be appointed rather than elected. If you […]
Here, Um, Come the Marines
The Few. The Proud. The Disgraceful. Turns out that there’s an invitation-only all-male Facebook site called Marines United, 30,000-plus members, that posts nude and compromising pictures of female Marines with all kinds of comments, including invitations to rape: From the attached NY Times story: Now the Defense Department has opened a criminal investigation and the […]
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