Start with a proposal that does 80% of the job, whittle it down to 60% to make it cheaper just because, cut that in half to please Republicans who won’t vote for it anyway, throw in some additional complication and means testing to please random “moderate” Democrats, and you’re left with something that is complicated and confusing that you’re unable (or justifiably unwilling) to take credit for. Then spend another 3 months “debating” it just to give time for people all over the spectrum to point out why it’s shit.This is what the supposedly sensible, moderate, grown up politicians do. Then they can blame The Left because twitter user TrotskyChavez420 tweeted, “fuck the pigs.”
National
Why Do Americans Claim to Love Bipartisanship?
Spineless Democrats cling to bipartisanship the way Cletus and Lurleen cling to guns and religion, and for a simple reason: In every poll, overwhelming majorities, regardless of political affiliation, claim to support bipartisanship. Here’s a recent example. Why do so many people support the concept? For another simple reason: The question is loaded. Notice the […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday June 16 2021
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued a statement Thursday in recognition of Juneteenth Independence Day which – astonishingly – did not mention bipartisanship.
Newly elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton, is a “moderate” because he doesn’t think dark-skinned people are sub-human animals. His election exposed a rift in the SBC, as a solid 49% of Southern Baptist think dark-skinned people are sub-human animals. [They wonder why the denomination has lost more than 2 million members since 2006.]
El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, which could start a trend across Latin American countries. “The market will now be focused on adoption through El Salvador and whether other nations follow,” said Richard Galvin of crypto fund Digital Asset Capital Management in a report by Reuters. “This could be a key catalyst for bitcoin over the next two to three years.”
DL Open Thread Tuesday June 15th 2021
You have to admire Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell candor. Ooh wait… this isn’t candor. McConnell knows something that Democrats don’t. He knows that there is an election coming up. PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP DEMOCRATS… this is what firing up your base and thinking about turnout looks like. #saveusbipartisanship!
Banking giant JPMorgan has been sitting on about a half-trillion-dollar stockpile of cash – demands more tax breaks. #Measly$500billion
Bally’s now has the ability to get out of Dover Downs at a moment’s notice. #Poof!
Delaware Shakespeare has used the covid time to redefine what it means for a cultural arts organization to be truly community-based. #Readthewholething.
Steve Smynk still brazenly shows his face in public. #GoodOldBoys
Hon. Christoper J. Mugwort Coons, Esq. You’ve been Called Out
Whether he knows it or not, Atrios really is the nation’s leading Coonsologist.
The Sensibles
What Does Debbie Harrington’s Move to Leadership Signal for the 9th?
As Alby noted in an open thread, the Delaware Democratic Party leadership is now white-male-free.
New party chair Betsy Maron becomes the first woman to lead the party, and Coby Owens and Debbie Harrington, the first and second vice-chairs, are the first African Americans to hold those positions.
That’s all great, but what does it mean on the ground?
The primary to face Kevin “I’m not one of THOSE Republicans” Hensley is more or less on hold until after the district lines are redrawn. However, it is not too early to see the same perennial losers milling about near the starting line.
Perennial losers sounds mean spirited, but I don’t know what else to call the people who keep winning primaries but losing to the mediocrity that is Hensley.
DL Open Thread Monday June 14th 2021
Netanyahu is out. Reached for comments, Chris Coons of the Likud Party said, “I’m Sad”
The downside of learning about all this corrupt shit Trump’s DOJ tried to pull, is that it is more for the Biden DOJ to ignore and sweep under the carpet. #Bygones!
It is day #165 of 2021, and the good old USofA has enjoyed 270 mass shootings this year. That’s 1.63 mass shootings per day, so we are on track to reach 597 mass shootings. ‘MURICA #1 !
Unless Dems get some shit done, voters will remove them. “The bad Republicans were bad” doesn’t cut it.
This BHL graphic is not connected to any story. I just like it, and hope she uses the tag line. #radicalhonesty!
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 13, 2021
Delawareans should do a slow burn every time the national media call out Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for siding with Republicans. Everyone knows that another handful of Democratic senators share their not-so-progressive leanings, but most represent either red state or states with strong, functioning Republican parties. Only Delaware has two Democratic senators who both […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 11, 2021
Danny Short Has A Sad. From Matt Bittle’s Twitter. There’s so much dissembling goodness here, but I’ll go with: While the proposed amendment had some support from our Caucus during the 150th General Assembly, in the time since then many of our members reexamined it and began expressing significant reservations. First, ‘some support’ was all […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, June 10, 2021
The week’s biggest story has been brought to us via Pro Publica, which got its hands on a trove of secret IRS files that show many famous billionaires pay a lower income tax rate than you, even if you earn $17,000 a year. David Cay Johnston at Raw Story provides a helpful synopsis that boils […]
Biden’s Sophie’s Choice
Biden Admin: Our only red lines for the infrastructure plan are inaction and raising taxes on anyone making less than $400,000 per year.
McConnell, Manchin & Coons: Pick one.
DL Open Thread Wednesday June 9th 2021
I sometimes wonder if Coons is trolling me personally with the breathless hyperbole. Read on to see how Coonsian Bipartisanism just saved America.
Clear thinking on the ongoing stupidity of “bi-partisanship”
This guy – Duncan Bowen Black (better known by his pseudonym Atrios) constantly provides the clearest, most cogent criticism of our dystopian mania for Coonsian “compromise” politics. Like this for example:
The Opposition Opposes
I keep saying this, but it’s actually appropriate for Mitch McConnell to behave as he does (mostly). Doesn’t mean I like him! He’s a Republican! I don’t like Republicans! But he’s doing what an opposition is supposed to do.We don’t have a parliamentary system, but we should and can be more like one, both in practice and in “our” understanding of how things are supposed to work. A contest between competing visions and governances is superior to endless compromises which please no one, and that was true even when those compromises sometimes actually happened. But they don’t happen anymore, and that’s ok!
A little more about Black from wikipedia:
His weblog is called Eschaton. Black was also a regular guest economics expert on Air America Radio’s The Majority Report and is currently a regular commentator on Sam Seder’s internet radio (Majority.fm) Majority Report and an op-ed contributor to USA Today.
After obtaining his BA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Black obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1999. He has worked at the London School of Economics, the Université catholique de Louvain, the University of California, Irvine, and, most recently, Bryn Mawr College. He is now a Senior Fellow at the media research group Media Matters for America.
He also makes the case regularly that Elon Musk is a fraud and a hustler.
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