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Coons “seriously weighing” filibuster options
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 week is for us to remain curled up in the floor to demonstrate our commitment to finding a bipartisan solution. It is my firm belief that my good […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday January 11th 2021
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.
DL Open Thread Monday January 10th 2022
Well, the news blackout was in fine form this weekend, so just a couple of important items made it through the filter:
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Ending debtors prison in Delaware
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Holding unvaccinated dipshits accountable through health insurance, and
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Delaware’s most mediocre Dems
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Song of the Day 1/7: Jester Hairston, “Amen”
Sidney Poitier, who died Thursday at age 94, was born in Miami but grew up where his parents lived, Arthur’s Town, on Cat Island in the Bahamas, one of that scattered country’s farthest-flung Out Islands. Arthur’s Town is home to about 150 people, about the size of Viola, and Cat Island remains remote and sparsely […]
Who is Delaware’s Most Mediocre Democrat?
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?
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022
Lani Guinier Dies. Clinton Threw Her Under The Bus In Clintonian Fashion: Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died. She was 71. (Bill) Clinton, who knew Guinier […]
Weekend Revisit: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bardea (w/Jordan Howell)
What’s the missing ingredient in the Delaware left? I agree with Rob that it is a killer instinct.
I already listened this episode of the Highlands Bunker, but I’m revisiting it this weekend. If you a an incorrigible lefty like me, it is really worth a listen.
Highlands Bunker Delaware Call Editor Emeritus Jordan Howell joins Rob and Karl in the bunker to sum up the year by talking about media criticism, the effectiveness of confrontational organizing, and Twitter’s new favorite movie Don’t Look Up.
Many Dummies and Centrist Dems Buy into the Idea that “Good Republicans” Are a Thing
Praising “good Republicans” is a popular pastime among media and Dem elites. The Good Republicans Political journalists are forever promoting the supposed “good Republicans,” who weirdly, are always, at least in the telling, BARELY LIKE REPUBLICANS AT ALL. In fact, their “goodness” is usually ways in which they are actually like Democrats, who themselves are […]
Happy Anniversary!
January 7th is the one year anniversary of my peak optimism! I honestly and foolishly thought that Republicans would be able to shake off Trump once and for all after the failed coup.
Breaking: Coons Calls Biden “Dagger to the Neck” Remark Unfortunate
In a statement Coons expressed disappointment for what he termed Biden’s “ill-timed and divisive” rhetoric. “This is not the time to …and Chris he didn’t say anything like that but with everything we know about Coons, it was really believable.
Frankly I think it speaks volumes about the Senator’s character that so many people who read this headline found it totally plausible.
Song of the Day 1/6: The O’Jays, “Back Stabbers”
This 1972 song put the O’Jays on the charts, and helped Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s Sound of Philadelphia depose Motown at the top of the soul/R&B charts. There’s a reason the trio looks so polished in this Soul Train clip. The group, originally a quintet, formed way back in 1958 in Canton, Ohio. They […]
Chris Coons Is a Battered Woman
No, I don’t mean he’s been dipped in buttermilk and deep-fried. I mean he has a form of PTSD from being continually abused — in his case not by a spouse, but by Republicans, the kind who referred to him as a “bearded Marxist.” See if these symptoms (from the Wikipedia entry on battered spouse […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 6, 2022
MAGAts Call Trump A Wuss. What kind of would-be insurrectionist doesn’t rally his supporters in their time of need?: Edward Jacob Lang, a 25-year-old from upstate New York charged with assaulting a police officer with a bat, made his last-ditch, Trump-focused cry for help during a Wednesday evening interview with far-right personality Stew Peters. “You […]
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