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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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,…

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who helped organize a bipartisan letter backing up the legislative filibuster in 2017, said he’s “seriously weighing” what to do. “Part of the point of this…

Me: Let's go out to dinner one last time. Ms: One last time? Me: Yeah. One last time before things, you know,  go ka-plooey. Ms: Ok.  Mexican?

True story.  Things had already gone ka-plooey of course.  Mexican restaurants are a trailing indicator. In today's Open Thread please find; the tyranny of President Manchin, mask mandates, recalcitrant dummies, and solo hiking the ADT.

Well, the news blackout was in fine form this weekend, so just a couple of important items made it through the filter:

• • Ending debtors prison in Delaware

  • Holding unvaccinated dipshits accountable through health insurance, and

  • Delaware's most mediocre Dems

We know the good ones. We know the bad ones (The Dems that have sold their souls and votes for a few measly bucks, or for a spot a little closer to power [Coons, Longhurst, Poore, Pete, KMcG etc]). But there is a whole layer of Democratic elected officials that don't get much mention because they do just enough to stay off the radar. I know. That is  "bad" from an objective perspective. I mean, they've been elected to get shit done for ordinary Delawareans not just mark time and collect a pension. But that style of failure isn't aggressively bad like the terrible office-holding shitheads like Chris Coons. And while a few of these Dems were dis-invited by voters to continue using up Leg Hall oxygen in the last round of Democratic Party primaries, many continue to hide in plain sight. My list of the top mediocre starts with the overly ambitious Bethany Hall Long. What does she stand for? That's easy, she truly believes in the next rung of the ladder. I'd also put the terminally-uninterested John Carney on the "bad through sheer mediocrity" list. Who are your top picks?