Posts by jason330

I mean Copeland is no idiot (unless maybe he is...?). Maybe he does read this stuff and actually thinks it is somehow rooted in reality. DEGOP Chair Responds to Democratic…

The NJ names names and turns up the heat on Sneaky Pete.

Amid budget grief, big raises for Dover political aides Delaware lawmakers quietly awarded their top political aides in Legislative Hall thousands of dollars in raises earlier this year, even as they reduced or eliminated general pay increases for rank-and-file state employees, according to a review of payroll data by The News Journal.

House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, a Rehoboth Democrat who approved the raises, ducked questions from The News Journal, ignoring repeated requests for comment. "Pete is not available to comment about this," said Drew Volturo, a House Democratic spokesman.

Drew Volturo has been on the other side of this, so I'm not sure why he is going with this stonewalling approach. Maybe the Dem "leadership" has some broadside attack on teachers in he works that they plan to use to push this off the front page? It wouldn't surprise me.

I feel like a spectator this year. I just can't get excited about the Presidential election. Maybe it is because the GOP field is so utterly non-electable that the whole enterprise feels even more like kabuki theater than it normally does. Or... maybe it is because I like and I'm pretty comfortable with either Sanders or Clinton..? Who knows?

This admission, by Chaffetz, is going to enrage conservatives who think that the point of government is to waste taxpayers money on partisan witch hunts.

Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz has just admitted that the GOP’s investigation into Planned Parenthood’s misuse of federal funds turned out to be a dud. “Did I look at the finances and have a hearing specifically as to the revenue portion and how they spend? Yes. Was there any wrongdoing? I didn’t find any,”

Josh Marshall makes an important point.

The only thing amazing about this is how it took a momentary remark by McCarthy to suddenly make what everyone knows into an acceptable point of public discussion: namely, that the Benghazi Committee was not only a transparently political exercise (that's hardly unprecedented) but just a complete crock by every definition. Without McCarthy's clumsy remark, DC's establishment press apparently didn't realize this was the case or didn't think it was an acceptable point of discussion. That's amazing.

Your "liberal media" everybody... Fair and balanced!

THE ERA OF BIPARTISAN POLITICS IS OVER

On the bright side, if anyone can inform Coons, Carper, and Carney that they may now drop their lapdog devotion to fraudulent bipartisanship, it is Celia.

Early Saturday evening, an 11 year-old boy from Jefferson County, Tennessee, took his father’s unlocked shotgun and shot and killed, with premeditation, his 8 year-old neighbor, McKayla Dyer, from inside his house – because she wouldn’t show him her puppy. According to the local news station WKRN-TV (video below), the boy had a history of bullying the little girl. Her mother, Latasha Dyer said: “He was making fun of her, calling her names — just being mean to her…I had to go the principal about him, and he quit for a while, and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her.” The boy, whose name is being withheld by authorities, has been charged with first degree murder, but a judge is to decide in the coming days whether or not to transfer the case to adult court.

We need to stop calling these incidents accidents.

The New York Times reports today that Hillary Clinton is organizing “leadership councils” in every state, comprised of dozens of top Democratic state officials and super-delegates to the nominating convention…

When your campaign has to continually assert that you haven't dropped out, it is a bad sign. That's where Rand Paul is right now, as he tries to assure donors that he is still running for the GOP nomination... "but also, by the way... donate to my Senatorial campaign, because that is the real campaign." That's a paraphrase.

Robert Reich's list of everything that is STILL wrong with the Trans Pacific Partnership are the very reasons Tom Caper and Chris Coons love it so fucking much.

We don't need to stop everybody from buying guns. Just preventing white males (between the age of 15 and 30 who talk about guns a lot) from buying them would work.

For the record I have nothing against Marshall. In fact, I happen to like the guy, in spite of his resume. Back when I knew him, he was one of the sharpest and funniest guys involved in DE politics with the possible exception of Matt Denn. He probably still is. So there is that. Mat Marshall as a integral part of the Short campaign probably means that Townsend has a steep uphill climb. But the close connection to Carper is also significant. There is a saying - When You Dance With the Devil, the Devil Don't Change - the Devil Changes You. With Marshall's close links to Carper, it is hard to imagine that the Bryon Short campaign isn't going to be run as a Team Carper subsidiary.