Posts by jason330

I don't use "Tea Party" any more because the fact is the Republican Party is staffed and run by members of what was once called the Tea Party. I also don't use "treason" very much. Perhaps because during the run up to the Iraq war it was overused, and made meaningless, by those who argued that opposition to President Bush's lamebrain adventure in Iraq was treasonous. Nevertheless, whether you use John Carney's 'Tea Party' to give your Republican friends an "out" or you use "Republican" to describe the vandals in the House of Representative, one thing is clear. Modern Republicans have changed the country for the worse. As Bloomberg points out:

These tactics have long-term costs. If the U.S. defaults on its debt because a handful of Republican legislators don’t like a law vetted by all branches of government, the damage will go beyond a much lower credit rating. Something else -- a sense that the U.S. is, for all its differences, united -- will have been lost.

So now this is happening. Republicans have begun to organize around the premise that a default would not be catastrophic. Have they taken a page out of tricky Dick's playbook?

The recent PPP polling has been getting a lot of attention. In addition to basic "approve/disapprove" they asked about Tea Party sentiment in the district. The high levels of disgust with the tea party provides Democrats with real openings in these districts.

Where are Delaware's Republican grownups? Doesn't Delaware even have a functioning GOP anymore? Take a look at Charlie Copeland's official DEGOP Chair blog page. Ridiculous. Copeland is particularly craven given the politics of his father, a Republican who was instrumental in bringing Planned Parenthood to Delaware. What ever happened to the sane/insane divide in the party. I haven't heard a peep about the GOP's outrageous and unpatriotic brinksmanship from ANY Delaware Republican. Kovach? Lopez? Are you guys the future leaders of a political party or what? Man up for God's sake. While the "moderates" cower in silence, many Delaware Republicans live in the same self-imposed intellectual isolation that Ted Cruz inhabits. It is an intellectual ghetto in which the only voices are extremist charlatans who say there’s no risk associated with default. Because they never hear the thoughts of alleged Republican moderates like Copeland or Kovach, they honestly think that the government can structure payments so that the country’s creditors are held harmless. An alarming number of Republicans think this way, and that is to the DEGOP's eternal shame. The Delaware Republican Party "moderates" no doubt strut their level-headed reasonableness behind closed doors, but there are publicly complicit in allowing the GOP's dangerous fantasies to flourish. < / rant >

Scalia is being killed in the real world for his crazy-ass interview with New York Magazine. I'm loving seeing coverage like this on blogs like TheSuperficial which is a high traffic entertainment oriented blog.

(The interview) has already produced a goddamn orgy of quotes from him claiming to having secret gay friends to repudiating his own moderations. So here’s my favorite part where in the year 2013, a man who holds one of the most powerful and influential posts in our government talks about what he thinks The Devil is up to these days instead of possessing people and pigs like he used to in real life.

I'm sure this will be appealed to God, who is the only judge Christopher recognizes.

Conclusion The judgment of the Superior Court is affirmed.

We hold that the term “conservator of the peace” in the 1776 Delaware Constitution and each successive Delaware Constitution has always been used only to describe a changing variety of public officials. That generic collective description has never defined the powers of any specifically named constitutional office holder. The Sheriff’s argument to the contrary is without merit.

In other words: Stop trying to be a cop and do the job you were hired to do you idiot.

While throwing money at the banking sector and big pharama haven't worked out - there is a business sector that can (very cheaply) drag Wilmington into a new golden age. David Byrne has what Wilmington needs.

Obama just keeps kicking ass and taking names on the defense front. Close on the heels of his victory in Syria, he has acted boldly to protect the USA from terrorist attacks being hatched in Somalia and Libya.

(CNN) -- In two raids nearly 3,000 miles apart, U.S. military forces went after two high-value targets over the weekend. And while officials have yet to say whether the operations were coordinated or directly related, they show Washington's reach, capability and willingness to pursue alleged terrorists. One operation took place Saturday in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, when U.S. forces captured Abu Anas al Libi, an al Qaeda leader wanted for his role in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. In the second raid, a team of U.S. Navy SEALs in southern Somalia targeted a top leader of Al-Shabaab, which was behind last month's mall attack in Kenya. The SEALs came under fire and had to withdraw before they could confirm whether they killed their target, a senior U.S. official said.

Having spent the past three years trying hard to sabotage the ACA, the GOP has had some success in limiting the law's impact. There can be little doubt that the law would have been stronger at the roll out if not for these acts of GOP sabotage.