National
Isn’t now about when Democrats save Republicans from their own “government shutdown” stupidity?
Not this time – Speaker Kevin McCarthy is struggling to pass a bill to fund the government — and the White House isn’t about to throw him a lifeline. With just days to go before the government runs out of money, Biden’s team is watching Congress steam toward a shutdown, resigned to the reality that […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 20 2023
Its not like they didn’t run on being the party of nonstop national crisis. An out-of-control GOP is the party of nonstop national crisis Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but congressional Republicans are once again careening toward internal crisis and a damaging government shutdown. You may remember this song-and-dance from the last four or […]
Assassinations & Norms
Stories like this one remind me that Trump & GWB exploded so many norms that the rest of the world is just saying “Fuck it!” and doing any shit they feel like doing. Seems Like A Big Deal That they think it’s true and that they went very public in this way (and that it […]
The well established legal precedent of “LOL, Fuck You!”
America has always had wealthy people, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a generation of wealthy people absolutly determined to tear down the very American democracy that created all the wealth. Alabama is ignoring a Supreme Court order to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in part because the money behind […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday September 19 2023
GOP – Going Overboard Pandering: Vivek Ramaswamy regrets taking the Covid vaccine. His wife, a surgeon, does not. The presidential candidate has previously spoken about how he and his wife don’t agree on everything. That includes their feelings about getting vaccinated against Covid. ———//——— Trump lied a lot in the Meet the Press interview ———-//———- […]
If elected, McBride “wouldn’t be surprised” to become a Progressive Caucus member
Good to know. Being surprised sucks. Of course Coons considers himself on the left side of the caucus, so there is that. Anyway… More Earned Media for McBride REHOBOTH BEACH, DEL. — Sarah McBride touts that she’d be the first openly transgender member of Congress. She also wants to be known for more than just […]
DL Open Thread Monday September 18 2023
Person, woman, man, camera, TV In Gaffe-filled Speech, Trump Issues Bold And Unusual Warning, Says Biden’s Re-Election Could Lead to ‘World War II’ In his most recent speech, former U.S. President Donald Trump caused a stir with his contentious remarks, The Independent reported. He suggested that President Joe Biden could plunge the nation into “World War II” if re-elected and […]
New polling shows Eugene Young’s run for Congress is a big waste of political capital as Sarah McBride opens a more than twenty point lead. I hate being right about this stuff all the time.
Sarah McBride Holds Commanding Lead in Historic Run for Delaware At-Large Congressional Seat WASHINGTON—Today, a new poll by Change Research of Delaware’s At-Large Congressional race shows State Sen. Sarah McBride with a commanding lead, nearly doubling the support of her closest opponent. McBride made history in 2020 as the first openly transgender state senator in the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023
Josh Marshall makes the hard-to-argue-with case that the Republican reaction to their politically disastrous SCOTUS victory on abortion proves they don’t give a flying fuck about babies. Like that was ever in doubt. Lauren “36-Year-Old Grandma” Boebert giving a handjob in a theater isn’t the only sign that Republicans are lying about their belief in […]
Last Week’s Poll Results & This Week’s Poll
So what term should MAGATs use to replace the played out and very unpopular “Pro-Life”? I liked “Pro-Freedom Fetus” as the new goto terminology for MAGAT zealots. But this being a democracy, I was outvoted. The very accurate “Pro-Forced Birth” and “Pro-Women who have sex outside of marriage are sluts and deserve a life of […]
DEGOP Comes Out of the Pro-Vladimir Putin, Pro-War Crime Closet
It has been pretty clear that the DEGOP was on the Putin/Trump side when it came to supporting Putin’s war crimes against the people of Ukraine. Now they’ve come out of the closet and are making it official policy. Delaware Republican Party Billions to Ukraine? Millions to Delaware? To add onto the $76 BILLION of […]
Old Time Democrat, Joe Biden, Sides With UAW Strikers Over Profiteers
Coons must be hopping mad about all this “communism” coming from the White House. US President Joe Biden delivered televised remarks on the US auto workers strikes from the White House President Joe Biden sided with striking US auto workers Friday, saying they had not been given a fair cut of record profits at the […]
Trump Happy to Work for Putin & Putin Happy To Have Trump Working for Him
Trump says he’s pleased by Putin’s praise: ‘I like that he said that’ Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said he was “happy” to hear Trump’s promise to “resolve all burning issues within several days” — including the war in Ukraine. Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he appreciated recent praise from Russian leader Vladimir […]
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