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Scarane Slams Coons for Trumpist Warmongering AIPAC comments
If you ever need proof that Coons has the same fucked up worldview as Trump, just wait five minutes. Coons will unleash some Trumpist sounding doozies on ‘Morning Joe’, at a Notre Dame Law School panel, or in this instance speaking at AIPAC.
@JessforDelaware
This is @ChrisCoons at #AIPAC saying that Trump’s reckless assassination of Qasem Soleimani was “a good step forward for peace.”Trump and Chris Coons are pushing the exact kind of dangerous, warmongering foreign policy we are trying to replace.
Coons really is a piece of work. He doesn’t talk about Soleimani until he end, but if you want to watch 12 minutes of Coons kissing the Likud Party’s ass you will want to watch the entire thing.
Shouldn’t “the market” take care of this?
My Lands!! Evil socialism comes to rural Delaware!! Brian Pettyjohn is a socialist, probably with communist tendencies.
DOVER, Del. – In Delaware, every resident will soon have access to high speed internet. It’s been years in the making and on Thursday a plan is officially in place to bring broadband services throughout Kent and Sussex County.
“This is a significant step forward in Delaware in terms of broadband technology and getting it out there to the masses,” explains Kent County Administrator Michael Petit de Mange.
Finally residents that haven’t had the access or means to pay for it, will be able to get it in their homes. …
Sen. Brian Pettyjohn explains, “We need to make sure that it wasn’t just available to the higher tier incomes of families, it was something that should be available to all families and all households.”
When Coons joined Republicans to criticize Obama’s Syria policy & joined with the GOP to tank an Obama Justice Department Appointment
Click here to feel the Coonsian bipartisanship ->#Memories
TPM on why Alex Azar must be fired
That Coons voted for Azar because they were friends at Yale Law is merely despicable. That Coons continues to defend Azar is an outright scandal.
Wars, natural disasters, public health crises – these are the moments when people need to be able to trust that their government is working well, working for them, and telling them the truth. But as the American people prepare for the threat of a coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration has challenged that trust on a number of fronts.
One immediate step that President Trump must take to restore that sacred trust is to fire Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and replace him with a public health expert that the American people can have faith in.
Here is why this is such a critical first step: with Secretary Azar, we never know if he is working in the best interests of patients and public health, or if he’s focused on the needs, interests and profits of the pharmaceutical industry.
Dealing with Disappointment from Super Tuesday
The results from Super Tuesday were disappointing to me. I am now someone who has little trust left in the electoral system and the system” as a whole. A guest post from a young voter going by PK.
The Dem Primaries are proportional – The Convention should be too
Our Democratic primaries are democratic in that they are not “winner take all” but delegates are awarded in proportion to the vote. Unfortunately, the proportionality ends at the last primary and a “winner takes all” convention produces a candidate.
If that candidate is terrible, like Hillary Clinton for example, that “winner take all” system emboldens the candidate to bully, berate and abuse the second place finisher and that candidate’s supporters.
That is not a recipe for general election success. Since there are no rules governing what happens after the nomination is won, it falls to the candidate. So no matter how remaining primaries and caucuses play out, Bernie or Joe will need to devise a new response to victory. A proportionate vision that goes far beyond Clinton’s “fuck you, get in line” dismissiveness.
It is that, or Trump.
No clear winner of Dem nomination prior to convention
It is going to be a convention donnybrook. The only question is, will it be a convention donnybrook that leaves the party in tatters with a nominee hobbled, or will it be a nice, unifying uplifting donnybrook that launches the nominee to victory? The way it stands now, on June 6th when United States Virgin […]
Biden is having a good couple of days
Bernie is on my TV right now giving a hell of a speech. He still has a lot of fight in him.
But Biden has had a good couple of days. So if Biden keeps it going and wraps this thing up, who knows?
Maybe Biden (if he wins the nomination) can find the grace and common sense to reach out to liberals and progressives and mange to avoid repeating Clinton’s aloof, elitist fiasco of a campaign?
I sure as hell hope so. If I prayed, I’d pray for it.
So it is not over by a long shot. No matter who wins, liberals are going to continue to be a big, loyal Democratic constituency. I don’t think Biden can win if (like Clinton) he self-indulgently tries to get more moderate Republican votes than liberal Democratic votes.
How utterly atrocious was Coons’ vote to confirm Alex Azar?
What do Thomas R. Carper and Coons, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Doug Jones of Alabama and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia have in common? They were the only Democrats in the Senate to vote for Alex Azar. They voted for Trump’s pick when ALL of these facts were known […]
Fox News’ Brit Hume posts website screenshot with “Sexy Vixen Vinyl” in other tab
Fox News personality, Brit Hume was no doubt shopping for some “sexy vixen vinyl” gear for his mistress (because… of course he was). Then he decided to post a screen shot showing Joe Biden’s betting odds improving vs Bernie Sanders.
Whoops.
The real split in the Democratic Party may be unfixable
What are the two camps in the Democratic Party all about? The media would like you to think that the fault lines run along standard Right/Left political differences. That is false.
The real split is between “Democrats” who think things are more or less okay, and “Democrats” who know shit is fucked up. It is between people with a Joe Biden outlook that American is basically on the right course (save for a poor Presidential pick last time), and people who recognize that the planet is burning.
The “things are more or less okay” crowd likes the Heritage Foundation’s plan to protect the profits of wildly profitable “health sector” companies, carbon swaps and tax abatements for wildly profitable corporations that claim to have “sustainable” business practices.
The “shit is fucked up” people look at those types of “solutions” to the problems we are facing and feel like they are being gaslighted.
It is a shame. Because if the fault lines were Right/Left there could be a middle ground. There is no middle ground between “Hey, the house is on fire” and “Oh, pish-posh. It’s just the extra bedroom which we rarely use anyway.”
Bonus Metaphor: Why do “shit is fucked up” people seem agitated? They (we) are George Bailey running around shabby fucked-up Pottersville with vivid memories of Bedford Falls. And all the “things are more or less okay” Democrats keep saying is, “Relax. It’s always been Pottersville. Just take it easy and maybe enjoy our fine Casios, and prostitutes.”
Super Tuesday Preview Thread
Expectations for Biden are sky high after a day of rolling up (almost) all of the moderate Republicans running for the Democratic nomination. It is hard to see how he can beat those expectations, but I’m sure MSNBC will come up with some rationale to explain why Biden did spectacularly.
Who knows? Maybe he will do spectacularly. If the Republicans Amy Klobuchar was begging to vote for Biden could vote, he would be sitting pretty.
I’ll be interested in the “Biden + Bloomberg” vote vs the “Sanders + Warren” vote. California, for example, appears to be rejecting Clintonian Third Way politics outright.
538.com just updated its primary forecast to give Biden a razor thin delegates advantage going into the convention. Biden: 1,561. Sanders: 1,532
According to Nate Silver’s reckoning, if all of Bloomberg’s predicted delegates go to Biden, and all of Warren’s delegates go to Sanders, Biden would win the nomination outright just prior to the convention with 2,123 of 1,990 required delegates. Why Bloomberg didn’t endorse Biden today is a bit of a mystery to me.
DL’ers have spoken – Chris Matthews Quits
MSNBC Host Chris Matthews Resigns After Accusations of Sexism and Harassment Matthews’ exit comes on the heels of a reporter’s allegation that he sexually harassed her before an on-air segment in 2016.M
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