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McConnell Kneecaps Coons’ Super Secret BiPartisan Caucus Before it Can Pretend to Be a Player in the Infrastructure Bill
Odd strategy.
McConnell says no republicans will support Biden infrastructure plan, even before Collins, Coons and Murkowski could do their usual posturing and preening.
Coons’ Prayer Breakfast Russian Spy Contact Sentenced
Filed under: Tango, It Takes 2
Butina sentence to 18 months, but Coons is still free as a bird.
DL Open Thread Thursday, April 1, 2021
Joe Biden has proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Vox has a good explainer outlining what it does and how Democrats hope to pass it. Politico notes it has set off what might become the largest lobbying effort in memory. Schadenfreude meters around the nation redlined yesterday when the New York Times revealed that showboating […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 1, 2021
Topics For The General Assembly Easter Break: The House Kop Kabal Must End. Franklin Cooke Must Be Defeated. The Three (Or Four) State Reps (And One Governor) Who Must Be Lobbied Heavily On Minimum Wage. Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. There’s only one big story today. The Senate will try (and, I think, succeed) to […]
Viva Tio Bernie!
Bernie is happy about the fact that the Democratic Party has adopted his policies. (FTR – Economists are also happy)
Q: Let’s say I’m someone on the left who supported you in 2020. I’m looking at the American Rescue Plan and I see the $15 minimum wage got dropped, paid family leave got dropped. The child tax credit, which is my favorite part of the bill, it’s only temporary. Convince me that I should be excited about this. Why do you think it’s so significant?
Bernie: I don’t have to convince you. We have already convinced 75 percent of the American people that this is a very good piece of legislation. And I think progressives…
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Song of the Day 3/31: Steely Dan, “My Old School”
Only the good die young, they say, which is probably why G. Gordon Liddy, mastermind of the Watergate break-in, lasted 90 years before he shuffled off this mortal coil Tuesday. Several years before he made his mark on history with CREEP (note for the kidz: that was the incredibly apt acronym for the Committee to […]
The DE FOP’s Bad Jew-Jew
Matt Meyer for Gov, & oh yeah… fuck this guy:
DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 31, 2021
No, Delaware doesn’t specifically prohibit food or water at the polls like Georgia
A top Georgia election official suggested that Delaware has the same sort of election law as Georgia. But that talking point is bullshit.
Trump Lobs Paper Towels at Mar-a-Lago Housekeeper – Tells Her That He is the Real President
Trump cornered a Mar-a-Lago Housekeeper for 25 minutes rambling on about the border, China, Iran and how he is still the real President of the United States. Trump droned on endlessly about the Mexican border, saying migrant children were living in “squalor” apparently forgetting his own policy of keeping kids in cages. Trump also complained about […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 30, 2021
In today’s Open Thread
– Ghislaine Maxwell is the world’s most loathsome member of the London social scene in the 1980s.
– The Supreme Court on Monday denied a bid by a right-wing lunatics to require Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her use of personal email while she served as secretary of State.
– Mini vases, vases shaped like comely rear ends, and vase with multiple opening – the 2021 vase trends to be aware of.
– Pickup lines generated by Artificial Intelligence are as bad as you suspect.
– Helicopter crash is the leading cause of death for Czech billionaires.
But first, Murder trial opens with 9 minute snuff film of accused murderer killing the guy he is accused of murdering. I’m no lawyer but Derek Chauvin seems guilty AS FUCK.
Click on and drop your current obsession in the comments.
DL Open Thread Monday, March 29, 2021
Dildo-headed capitalist Jeff Bezos is personally behind the company’s recent shitty behavior toward its critics. He issued a “broad mandate” to executives to fight back. Hey, it worked last time Amazon workers tried to unionize — in 2014 in Smyrna. In Delaware, not even exploited workers will rock the boat. If the Grateful Dead had […]
The Suez Canal was opened in November 1869
A ship stuck in a 152 year old canal is a perfect metaphor for our “living on borrowed time” approach to infrastructure. SS Great Eastern was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refuelling. Her […]
Bill would let Mainers go off to Valhalla in a blaze of glory
Mainers may soon be able to leave this life in a blaze of glory, as a new measure would allow a Viking-style funeral ritual. If passed, Maine would join Colorado as the only other state to allow the funeral ritual that is associated with Norse culture, the Sun Journal reported. The Viking funeral pyre has […]
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