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DL Open Thread Tuesday June 29th 2021
The last guy had horrible, unpopular ideas. And yet he got some shit done because he didn’t spend anytime trying to cajole or bargain with any mother-fuckers. Also in today’s open thread – gun violence that happens to other people, giving $19 million in tax money away to a massively wealthy Chinese drug Co., and being maskless was nice while it lasted.
Poof! There goes his Presidency – Biden has no fucking leverage whatsoever
He is so fucking thirsty for Coonsian Bipartisanship that McConnell has him by the balls in a is squeezing. It is nauseating to watch. McConnell attacks Democrats’ infrastructure strategy, threatening deal despite Biden’s olive branch to GOP President Joe Biden walked back a threat to veto the bipartisan deal unless Democrats’ plan is also passed, […]
DL Open Thread Monday June 28th 2021 – Biden Badly Bungles Bridge Buttressing Bill
Lucy is always going to pull that football away. You and I see it so clearly, but Biden, Coons and the entire DC media thinks that if only Charlie Brown just tried a little harder… Biden shift reassures Republican senators on bipartisan infrastructure deal President Biden appears to have salvaged a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan […]
God (or whatever) Bless The Boris Johnson Administration for popularizing “Omnishambles”
The U.K.’s health minister, Matt Hancock, resigned this weekend after footage of him kissing and embracing an aide in his office was leaked to a tabloid newspaper [The Sun]. The story has many bizarre and alarming facets. • Hancock was already reeling from an earlier leak which showed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson described him […]
Song of the Day 6/27: Mumford and Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer”
Mumford and Sons, the British band that soared to popularity a decade ago by dressing up like farmers and playing Americana, hit the news this week when their banjo player left the band because, basically, he’s a right-wing dude-bro, and fans weren’t happy about it. Winston Marshall, 33, the group’s co-founder and a self-described “trustafarian,” […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 27, 2021
It’s been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that laws forbidding same-sex marriages were unconstitutional, and the warnings that it would destroy marriage seem to have melted into nothingness, just like most right-wing boogeymen. While some LGBTQ activists are disappointed that the ruling didn’t improve much else where rights are concerned, the just-completed census […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 26, 2021
Keep This Bill Dead And Buried. When the bill passed the House quite awhile ago, I thought it was a done deal in the Senate. Thankfully, it’s languished in the Senate, where it should remain. We’re talking about moving the primary to April: The end-of-summer primary is uniquely Delaware and uniquely effective. Titans have been […]
Coons’ Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Reveals Itself Momentarily – Goes Immediately Back into Hiding
The 14 Republicans who signed Wednesday’s bipartisan statement in support of the pared-down to nothing infrastructure bill are:
- Sens. Richard Burr, of North Carolina;
- Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana;
- Chris Coons, of Delaware;
- Susan Collins, of Maine;
- Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina;
- Joe Manchin, of West Virginia
- Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska;
- Rob Portman, of Ohio;
- Mitt Romney, of Utah;
- Mike Rounds, of South Dakota;
- Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona
- Thom Tillis, of North Carolina
- Todd Young, of Indiana
- Jerry Moran, of Kansas
Here is the list of Republicans Senators who will vote for the actual bill:
- Chris Coons, of Delaware;
Coons Gushes About Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Work on Infrastructure Deal as Infrastructure Deal Falls Apart
McConnell put the kibosh on the pared-down to nothing infrastructure deal in real time. No matter. Coons rushed to take credit for saving America. All hail BIPARTISANSHIP!!! All hail the SUPER SECRET BIPARTISAN CAUCUS!
Q: You were a part of the larger group of 20 bipartisan senators who have been meeting on this. Tell us your thoughts about the impact and the import about what we just heard from the president and your colleagues at the White House.
Sen. Coons: Well, Dana, this is a great day for President Biden, for the determined group of ten Democrats and Republicans who you just heard from – from Kyrsten Sinema and Rob Portman, from Joe Manchin and Susan Collins and others who have been hammering away at this for days and days. And now the work begins to build it out, to make sure that beyond the 21 of us who have publicly been supporting it and urging them along, we get more supporters in both caucuses. Over the next eight years, this represents $1.2 trillion in investment and infrastructure. That really is a big deal. And this framework has $[579] billion in new spending. To get an agreement on that on a bipartisan basis took a lot of very hard work.
So I just want to congratulate the folks who were just over at the White House with President Biden. This is a significant accomplishment. Something that should not go unremarked is that the Senate of the United States also just passed in the last hour and a half a bold bipartisan bill on climate change in the agriculture sector. Senator Stabenow and Senator Braun were the leads on this. There are good bipartisan things happening here in the Senate. I do think for us to accomplish most of President Biden’s boldest agenda in the American Jobs Plan and Family Plan, we will still have to proceed by reconciliation – which I support.
But as you just heard, a Republican senator from Louisiana celebrated the White House. This package has $47 billion to do climate resiliency work. It is great to hear Democrats and Republicans legislating together around something as urgent as combatting climate change and as significant as creating great high-paying jobs, building American infrastructure for this century.
North Sea green energy could overtake oil and gas by 2030, says study
The UK’s half-century legacy as a leading offshore oil and gas hub will be eclipsed by the North Sea’s fast-growing green energy industry within the next decade, according to new research. An academic study by the Robert Gordon University, based in the oil industry capital of Aberdeen in Scotland, has found that by 2030 most […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, June 24, 2021: The Sellout
Enough Democrats in the Senate have sold out their party to come up with a skinny infrastructure bill that won’t raise any taxes to fund $600 billion worth of repairs, which means rich fucks skate again thanks to Chris “I’m a rich boy, how ’bout you?” Coons. A couple of former NRA honchos got the […]
Does Kyrsten Sinema have an intellectual disability?
Is “intellectual disability” the correct clinical wording for someone with a very low IQ? Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) defended her opposition to abolishing the 60-vote legislative filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday night, saying to do so would weaken “democracy’s guardrails.” “My support for retaining the 60-vote threshold is not based on the […]
Song of the Day 6/23: Ohio Players, “Funky Worm”
Have you seen any stories about this invasive species of Asian “jumping” earthworms that’s tearing up forest land in the Midwest? Check the link and prepared to be creeped out. But do it while you listen to the Ohio Players’ first charting single, from their 1973 LP “Pleasure.” It was a No. 1 R&B hit, […]
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