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I haven't been around much and I don't know how much I'm going to be a round for a while. I love the blog and love all of you, but I also just left a cushy job that was easy and gave me a lot of time to blog. Now I'm in the sink or swim world putting bread on the table and it has occupied all of my time. (In terms of finding something that can focus your mind, I highly recommend panic.) Thank's to Nemski and El Som for keeping it going. I think there is a pressing need for DelawareLiberal in the media landscape of this state. Whatever happens I hope it goes on and on and the tens of commenters keep commenting, and thousands of lurkers keep lurking.

Could be.  Following a NYTimes report that O'Reilly has paid out $13 mill (and counting) to settle sexual harassment claims, advertisers are bailing out of his show. En Masse: At…

...from the desk of RE Vanella THIS MONOPHONIC MICROGROOVE RECORDING IS PLAYABLE ON MONOPHONIC AND STEREO PHOTOGRAPHS. IT CANNOT BECOME OBSOLETE. IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A SOURCE OF OUTSTANDING SOUND REPRODUCTION, PROVIDING THE FINEST MONOPHONIC PERFORMANCE FROM ANY PHOTOGRAPH. --Endorsement on Rubber Soul, The Beatles, Capitol Records, Inc. 1965. I wanted to share something today as a celebration of sorts. We won yesterday. Coons held his nerve. The fact that his remarks were politically measured is irrelevant. Let me be perfectly clear, I fully expect Neil Gorsuch to be the next Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court. That’s also irrelevant. We showed some spirit. That’s promising because we’re going to need to do that about every two weeks into the foreseeable future. As you may have noticed yesterday, in this space but buried deep in the Third Circle of the comments section, I’m already onto Carney re: HB 110. Fuck it, I say every Democrat and Independent in the US Congress run a total blockade until they pass Medicaid for all. We’re going lose all these, but we’re going to show some bloody pride. Real pride. Not for Twitter or TV. So, anyway, last week I submitted an Op-Ed that didn’t get published (aka., rejected without comment) in support of this last little scrap. I’ll share it with you all. Be a glutton for punishment. Revel in it. It’s character building.

I guess it was bound to happen. The cranky old a-holes feel empowered and disinhibited about running on racist themes thanks to Trump's win. In spite of the click bait-y…

People are saying that Pete will not run again.  According to the indirect source, Pete didn't like campaigning in either the primary or general election.  If that's true, Don Peterson…

...they start with a tip to the DL tipline.

A person close to Simpler says that he is NOT running for treasurer in 2018. And that he does plan on running against Carney for governor in 2020.

Also - I've heard that if Simpler doesn't run for Tres. look for Kathy McGuiness to run for that office. Could Ken be so generous as to give Park City a running start? Simpler is rumored to be a big supporter of KMcG and in looking at her facebook page, she's planning on running for something.

After taking in Carney's "shared sacrifice" budget proposal a couple of things have become clear to me. 1) Carney has no imagination. He isn't a leader. He is just following along what Jack Markell did, right down to adopting Markell's January swansong budget proposal wholesale. This budget shows no guts and fewer brains. 2) He doesn't care about courting Democratic constituencies. The gutting of the Coastal Zone Act in order to preserve "offshore tax shelter" tax rates for wealthy corporations and individuals speaks volumes. 3) Carney is trapped in 1990's. This budget does court two constituencies - the state chamber of commerce, and "moderates." Does he really think that he is going to run a race that ignores Democrats (because he thinks he has those votes tied down) while trying to appeal to the state's persuadable Republicans? My sense is that he is thinking precisely that because it is what would have worked in the 1990's. This budget demonstrates...