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DL Open Thread Wednesday Jan 19th 2022
I’m not optimistic about any case against Trump going anywhere. Please recall that Chris Coons helped Trump push through record numbers of crony federal judges. I wonder what Chris Coons got in return for al that bipartisanship. I wonder what reciprocal bipartisanship Coons ever received by being such a mewling supplicant?
Make them vote “No”
Senator Elizabeth Warren was on TV this morning saying that if the Dems had any fighting spirt it at all, they’d take the elements of the BBB plan and hold votes on them to make Republicans (plus Chris Coons, Joe Manchin, et al) vote against:
- expanded free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds,
- high-quality care for older Americans and people with disabilities in their homes
- making the wealthy and corporations pay what they owe
- and so on.
It is that or make like John Carney and say that your hands are tied.
Biden is a Liar (or a really gullible dupe)
I’m not saying I won’t vote for him, but I know know I’m going to have a very tough time voting for him knowing he was either lying or so easily duped by Manchin. Hmmm… Liar or dupe? Both bad and not what we need leading the party and the country right now.
DL Open Thread Tuesday January 18th 2022
Unless they are scared off by Trump, the GOP presidential primary is going to be a donnybrook because they all view Biden (or Harris) as incredibly beatable. With the changes they’ve made on the state level regarding how elections are run, they are probably right. Anyway, I guess I hope Liz Cheney runs, but I don’t see that happening.
As usual the country’s assholes will be choosing a “King of the assholes” to represent them. FWIW, here is the NYT on Trump v DeSantis:
Happy MLK Day
“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most […]
DL Open Thread Monday Jan 17th 2021
Another very successful weekend of me avoiding all “news” is in the books. I have no earthly idea what may have happened over the last 48 hours but I can guess that “0MG! InFLaTI0N!!” “Dems in Disarray and “Biden Presidency in Deep Trouble” stories loomed large.
Fortunately none of that stuff has any real world impact. It is all just a jolly game for DC cocktail circuit regulars. So what is on your radar? While you ponder that question here are some is one “Delaware” headline of note per the google news algorithms.
Simple explainer on why democracy in America will lose, unless Democrats wake up
This is why Coons’ mania for “Bipartisanship Above the Republic Itself” is so pernicious and so unforgivable. Using a whiteboard, author and Ohio politician David Pepper posted a video (linked here) on his Twitter account describing “two sides of an epic struggle in America right now.” But each side is fighting for something different, “and that’s […]
Sinema’s Statement Out Coons’es Chris Coons
Sinema saying that Dem leadership should’ve worked harder to build GOP support for voting rights is pure Chris Coons Bipartisanship Über Alles. “I wish there had been a more serious effort on the part of Democratic Party lines to sit down with the other party and genuinely discuss how to reforge common ground on these […]
Is it time for liberals to go on strike against the radical centrist Democratic Party?
Look. “Angry liberals” will get blamed for the failure of the radical centrist Democratic Party anyway, so maybe it is time to earn that scorn and reprobation we are going to be getting no matter how badly centrist bomb throwers fuck shit up?
Maybe it is time for all left of center Dems to quit the party or at least provide zero votes (or money) to the party or to any Dem candidate until it reigns in the centrist zealots who are committed to failure?
“Liberals” have been the most loyal but most routinely ignored part of the Dem coalition. It seems to me that it is time for the party to pay a price for being in the thrall of radical centrism.
No More Presidential Debates
I can’t say I’m sad about this. The televised “debates” have become pretty dumb. It is all just trolling for gotcha moments and elevating the nonsense candidate to the level of the legitimate candidate. SEAN HANNITY (HOST): The RNC today did something that I’ve been saying they should have done a long time ago, and […]
GOP to Run Out the Clock, Then Arrest the Whole Biden Admin After the Mid-Terms
It isn’t a secret plot. You do not have to know how to decode subtle signs. It is right out in the open.
Oh well, the wholly powerless figure-head President and pretend legislature can’t do anything about it.
Kevin McCarthy Refuses Interview Request From Jan. 6 Committee
The panel said it was interested in conversations the top House Republican had with President Donald J. Trump on the day of the riot and afterward.
Really Stupid DC Bubble Dem Idiocy is Thriving in the Biden White House
Insurers Will Have to Cover 8 At-Home Virus Tests Per Month
The Biden administration announced the new guidelines as it continued to work to get coronavirus tests to people regardless of their insurance status.
FFS, just send out the goddam tests. Jesus fucking Christ! The DC Bubble bullshit artists are in full control. New complicated tax credits and unworkable bullshit will surely save us.
DL Open Thread Wed December 12th 2021
OMG. It is so tiresome. Under-President Biden (who is wholly powerless) goes to Georgia and says we need to get rid of the filibuster. President-in-Fact Machin says no. Blah, bah, blah. We all know that no voting rights protections will be voted on, but it will take hundreds of thousands of hours of a […]
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