Carney Poll Numbers Tank on Stumbling, Bumbling Start

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There is time for Carney to redeem himself, but he'd have to do something that seems like an anathema to him - be a Democrat.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
The poll numbers via Allan Loudell:

Coons gets FBI Wray on the Record – Investigation Not a Witch Hunt

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WDEL's Amy Cherry covered Coons questioning of FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray. Coons, opened by stressing the unique circumstances of the appointment:
"Let us not forget why we're having this hearing--your predecessor James Comey was not even at the half-way point of his 10-year term as FBI director when President Trump abruptly fired him without cause and without warning...so now more than ever, I believe it to be crucial that our next FBI director be prepared to be steadfastly independent," said Coons.
It sounds like Coons did a fair job. He got Wray on record stating that the investigations into Russian interference in the election is not a "witch hunt" contrary to the views of President Dumbfuck. Read more at WDEL.

Open Thread For July 13, 2017

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Wilmington Ethics 'Watchdog' Disbanded. Nobody Noticed.  Correction: Those whose ethics were already in the sewer enabled the demise of the agency.  Purzycki's reconstituting it. Charles Pierce On The Christopher Wray…

Donald Trump, Christian?

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If you are a Republican, you can like Trump. You are dumb, but I get it. You can't, however, go around thinking that he is a Christian. Not unless you are the dumbest dumbfuck in all of Christendom.

Abortions up in Texas as Planned Parenthood Defunded

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Who could have predicted it? Actually, everyone except Republicans. The truth is, they are not concerned with the number abortions. They are concerned with punishing women for having sex. If anyone happens to know a so-called "pro-life" Republican who supports sex education and family planning, let me know. I'd like to shake that unicorn's hand.
NEW YORK ― Republicans are trying to find a way to defund Planned Parenthood as part of an overall effort to limit abortion in America. But doing so had the opposite effect in Texas, according to a new study based on research from Texas A&M University. The study, conducted by economics professor Analisa Packham (now at Miami University), shows that in the first three years after Texas Republicans slashed the family planning budget in 2011 and shut down more than 80 women’s health clinics, the abortion rate among teenagers in the state rose 3 percent over what it would have been had the clinics remained open. After cutting Planned Parenthood out of the state’s subsidized women’s health program, then-Gov. Rick Perry (R) said his “goal” was to “ensure abortions are as rare as possible under existing law.” But the move actually interfered with an overall downward trend in abortions in Texas. “This certainly isn’t the way to have fewer abortions,” said Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper, an OB-GYN in Maryland and an advocate with Physicians for Reproductive Health. “The abortion rates nationally have decreased and are at a historic low. So for Texans to see an increase in adolescent abortions is really telling ― it seemed to have followed the national trend until these clinics were defunded.”