DL Open Thread Tuesday January 24 2023

Carper said that introducing a DC statehood bill reminded him of when he introduced the Hawaii, Alaska and Arizona statehood bills.

Delaware Democrat introducing DC statehood bill in Senate

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) on Monday announced he’s reintroducing a bill to grant statehood to the nation’s capital. “The rumors are true! I’m introducing the #DCStatehood bill in the Senate this week,” Carper wrote on Twitter. Carper has led previous efforts to get the bill through in the Senate in partnership with the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate to the U.S. House, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), whose name on Twitter is Eleanor “#DCStatehood” Holmes Norton.  
Dewey Beach is in the market for a new town slogan So far the leading candidates are:

"Highest rate of pedestrian fatalities in the state!" 

"If you lived here, you'd be drunk by now." 

DL Open Thread Monday January 23 2023

I listened to Delaware House & Senate Republicans "reaction" to the State Address by Governor Carney so you don't have to

Hocker opened up slurring through some nonsense that I couldn't really make out.  Is he drunk or having a stroke?  If it's a stoke, I don't want to make too much fun of him. I'm decent that way. Pettyjohn agrees with Carney on everything, but wants Delaware to shove money into the bank accounts of multi-national companies even faster and with even less oversight.  Turning Delaware into the anti-regulation paradise "just like Texas" appears to be  Pettyjohn's obsession.  (His campaign for Gov tag line?  Spoiler Alert: It is going to be tough to run to the right of Bethany Hall Long on the issue of making the state an even bigger corporate patsy.) Ramone wants to know...

New Highlands Bunker Episode w/ Me & El Som

You should listen to this if you've got a drive that is about an hour and 15minutes long or you are any of these potential Governor candidates:  Chris Coons, Brian Townsend, Pete Schwartzkopf (SP?), Frank Burns, Mike Ramone, Andria Bennet, Larry Mitchell, Lumpy Carson, Estelle Parker Selby, Dorsey Walker, Bill Bush, Val Longhurst, Stephanie T Bolden, Stephanie Hansen, James Taylor, Charles "Bud" Freel, Namdi, Deb Heffernan, Shané Darby, Jack Markell, Bethany Hall Long, Ruth Anne Miner, Harriet Windsor, Mike Smith, Kim Williams, Steve Newton, Sarah McBride, Tom Carper, James Nolan, Dee Durham, Dave Carter, Bobby Bird, Becca Cotto, Sophie Phillips, Paul Baumbach, Lydia York,...  Oh fuck it... I was going to name check everyone mentioned but I can't.  Sorry to Matt Marshall and Alexander Snyder-Mackler, you guys are going to have to just listen to see if we talk about you.   
E225 - #REVMicdUp (w/ Steve, Jason)
DelawareLiberal writers Steve and Jason join Rob in the bunker to talk about the first couple weeks of the new legislative session, what the future looks like for the House and the governor's seat, and a new campaign to get Rob on Mic'd Up with Mike Smith.

Why can’t “Q” start lumping Coons in with all the world’s villains?

Coons seems like he is actively trying to get on the "Q" list of worldwide super-villains.  It would certainly make more sense (knowing "making sense" rates dead last on any list of "Q" concerns) to drop "Lappy" or "the Rothchilds" and make Coons the most vile Hitler since the actual Hitler.
DAVOS, Switzerland – U.S. lawmakers quietly took part in a private ritzy lunch atop the World Economic Forum on Monday featuring dozens of influential business leaders, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Lawmakers in attendance included members of the U.S. congressional delegation taking part in the annual confab for the elite and wealthy in Davos, including Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Chris Coons, D-Del., Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz. and a few members of the House of Representatives, these people explained. Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp also attended the event, one of the people said.

It is nice to see Democrats calling Republicans on their bullshit for once

Of course it only takes a couple of Dems in search of bipartisan glory (like Manchin or Coons for example) to overturn the debt ceiling chessboard.
Schumer/Jeffries: “default forced by extreme MAGA Rs could plunge the country into a deep recession”
Biden White House: “We’re not going to do any negotiations. And it should be, again, done without conditions,”

DL Open Thread Tuesday January 17 2023

WHAT ABOUT MAH FREEDOM?!?!

Alt Headline 1: What's the point of having a gun if you can't threaten/shoot people with it?

Alt Headline 2: Lewes man charged after pulling gun on woman

A Lewes man faces charges Jan. 14 after police say he threatened a woman with a gun.
Police were called at 11:17 p.m. to a home in the 20000 block of Plantation Road for a report of shots fired; they learned that Timothy Littleton, 33, had argued with a woman, 37, at the home before he took out a handgun and pointed it at her, said Sr. Cpl. Jason Hatchell of the Delaware State Police. There were three children present inside the residence during the incident, he said.

Water ??!? Pfft...we'll live off bile and memories of Ronald Reagan

Here is the thing, they could only build these houses in Rio Verde (ironically "Green River") by exploiting a loophole which meant having watered delivered (rather than being connected by pipes to some water supply).  Scottsdale was happy to send those trucks to fill everyone's tank each month.  ...up until they didn't have enough water for Scottsdale proper.   Anyway, to be pedantic, it is not really accurate to say that water was "turned off".  Also, "Are these houses here because they are exploiting a loophole?" is a question people who buy houses in the desert should probably ask prior to taking on that mortgage.  

RIO VERDE, Ariz. – Joe McCue thought he’d found a desert paradise when he bought one of the new stucco homes springing up in the granite foothills of Rio Verde, Arizona. There were good schools, mountain views, and back door cactus-studded trails.

Then the water was turned off.

Earlier this month, the community’s longtime water utility, the neighboring city of Scottsdale, turned off the faucet to the Rio Verde Foothills, blaming a crushing drought threatening the West’s future. Scottsdale said it needed to focus on conserving water for its own residents and could no longer sell water to about 500 to 700 homes — or about 1,000 people. That meant the unincorporated bevy of $500,000 stucco homes, mansions and horse ranches outside of Scottsdale’s borders would have to fend for themselves and buy water from other suppliers — if homeowners could find them and afford it, much higher ones to pay prices.

Knowing that the phrases "We Fuck Up Social Security!"  & "Self-Imposed Government Shutdown Chaos" & "Economic Collapse Caused by GOP Stupidity" didn't do well in focus groups, the house GOP has another zippy new word for that bundle of policies -prioritization. 
Republican lawmakers on Sunday renewed calls for spending concessions from Democrats as a contingency to raising the federal government’s borrowing limit, setting up another round of brinkmanship with the U.S.’s credit rating on the line. House Republicans have a plan if an agreement can’t be reached, the Washington Post reported. That is to tell the Treasury and the Biden administration to prioritize spending by making only the most critical payments, such as interest on the national debt, as well as Social Security, Medicare,...
Remember when I said that the New York State Democratic Party needed to be dissolved and the office furniture auctioned off?   

Man on the street

Whoever says 'I will make corporations pay taxes.'  That's who I'll vote for.
Someone who isn't a political weirdo, like you and I, said that to me recently. I take it as an opening for Trump, because he'll say anything.