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6 CommentsTonight, Canadian politics veered left. Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party captured a majority in Canada’s 338 seat-Parliament -- thereby putting an abrupt end to nearly a decade of Conservative governance under Stephen Harper. Harper’s Conservatives went into the campaign pledging balanced budgets. In sharp contrast, Trudeau promised three years of deficits in order to more than double spending on infrastructure. The Liberals also promised to raise taxes on Canada's "wealthiest one per cent" — earning more than $200,000 — so taxes on middle-class families could be lowered. Trudeau and the Liberals argued now is the time for Canada to invest in its future rather than embrace austerity economics, and that Canada’s rich should pay their fair share. Evidently most Canadians agree.
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9 Comments“He was President,” Trump said. “Blame him, or don’t blame him, but he was President. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.” “I think I’m much more competent than all of them,” Trump said. “Say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time,” Trump told Bloomberg.Jeb Bush's responded with the threadbare lie that his brother “kept us safe.” I don't see how this isn't terrible news for the faltering Bush campaign. The more Trump reminds the GOP base of Bush;s incompetence, and the more Jed tries to respond to those attacks by sticking his fingers in his ear holes and chanting "He kept us safe" the more Bush looks like a complete buffoon.
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18 CommentsRep. John Carney’s decision last month to run for governor has opened up his at-large seat to Delaware Democrats hoping to make it to Washington. The day after the three-term member made his announcement, state Sen. Bryan Townsend, a corporate lawyer in Wilmington, got into the race. A week later, state Rep. Bryon Short, a small business owner and former aide to Sen. Thomas R. Carper, followed suit. Now a third Democrat is expected to get into the race. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who served as Delaware’s first African-American female secretary of Labor, is likely to announce her campaign in the coming weeks, a source who is familiar with her thinking told CQ Roll Call Thursday. In a safe Democratic district that President Barack Obama carried twice, the winner of the primary will almost surely win the seat. EMILY’s List has met with Rochester, and is encouraging her to run. “Lisa Blunt Rochester has been a fierce advocate for Delaware families,” EMILY’s List Communications Director Marcy Stech told CQ Roll Call. “We are excited to see that she’s taking a serious look at this race — she would be a strong leader in Washington who knows how to create opportunity for all.”
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GOP sources are telling Politico that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is looking to move a bill that would lift the debt ceiling before he steps down. According to the Politico report, published Wednesday... GOP leadership is willing to put forth a standalone debt ceiling bill -- a so-called "clean" bill -- before a new speaker takes over Boehner's gavel.You really have to wonder what is coming next. THE GOP has gerrymandered its way into a nearly unbreakable majority which it can't use because at least 30 House Republicans are certifiably insane.
