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Delaware’s unemployment rate dropped at even 5 percent. Over the past year, Delaware has added more than 8,000 net jobs outside of agriculture. Much of that growth comes from professional and financial services, as well as transportation. [...] Delawareans’ take home pay every week continues to grow slowly, standing at just under $740 per week. That’s still well below January 2009 when weekly earnings totaled about $770 every week.

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) offered a way to solve homelessness in his colleagues' congressional districts: wolves.

Young, speaking at a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, made the comments while he was arguing that gray wolves should be taken off the endangered species list. "How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one," Young said. He called the gray wolf a "predator." "We've got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven't got a damn wolf in their whole district," Young said. "I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore."

I guess because the homeless would then be killed and consumed by the wolves. Ah, Republican solutions. They are finally being honest about them.

Hillary Clinton last night said she wants all her email released. Said Clinton: “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.” Have you noticed how silent the Republicans have been on this issue, all except for new subpoenas for her email from the BENGHAZI!!! committee interminably investigating it, even though of course this committee and its GOP members knew about the private email address from the beginning and even though they already have her emails. Why are Republican candidates for President silent? Well, they are being smart, since they know that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

“If it seems like the GOP presidential field has been unusually silent this week as scrutiny mounts over Hillary Clinton’s email practices, there’s a logical explanation: Many of them are tormented by their own email demons. At least a half-dozen 2016 Republican prospects have felt the sting of sustained negative press coverage over their email practices, with the common denominator being an attempt to sidestep public scrutiny attached to official government accounts. While the scope and scale of the controversies range widely — and they’re not comparable to the Clinton circumstances — their histories with electronic communications have left them with their own unique vulnerabilities on the issue.”

Any public response to this?

The actual public response to the controversy is likely to be a combination of apathy and partisanship. Few Americans are paying attention to any aspect of the campaign at this point. Those who do notice will most likely divide largely along partisan lines, with Democrats interpreting her actions more charitably, especially once they see Republicans attacking Mrs. Clinton on the issue.

Politicos missed the Clintons it seems. For me, so long as the emails are preserved, disclosed and not destroyed, I really don't care if Hillary or any politician uses a private email address or a public one. I have read several articles this week that say that using a private server is actually better if you actually physically own the server (as in the Clinton and Bush case), as it protects from hacking. So the issue here is transparency, and if the emails are disclosed (as it seems they are going to be through the State Department), then there is no issue.

Like Jason330, I enjoy reading RedState during these moments of Democratic victory and Republican defeat. Their tears sustain me. From the New York Times:

The fight over funding the Department of Homeland Security that began with Republicans thundering about a lawless president abusing power to change immigration policy ended with a quiet capitulation Tuesday when the House voted to fund the agency and avert a partial shutdown. In the end, Speaker John A. Boehner was forced to build a majority on Democratic votes to pass the bill, 257 to 167, with just 75 Republican supporters. But although the uprising among conservatives burned hot into the week, there was no suggestion that Mr. Boehner’s leadership was imperiled. Instead, many Republicans expressed a sense of resigned relief.

During every shutdown / hostage-taking episode we have endured since 2011, the outcome was always entirely predictable: Republican capitulation. Let they keep doing it. Best proof yet that they are all insane.

I realize American voters (and let's face it - particularly liberal leaning American voters) are a lazy bunch of losers, but if Chief Justice John Roberts decides to strip 7 million people in some three dozen states of health insurance on a technicality, I think things could actually go Ka-Plewey.

First of all, ...the "Elizabeth Warren Wing" of the Democratic Party? Where do I sign up? Secondly, if Tom Carper thinks that Democrats can win back the House and Senate by being MORE LIKE Tom Carper, he is either deranged or lying. Anyway, if you feel like throwing up read the whole thing. If you want to simply feel queasy the rest of the day, skip to Carper's quote:

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), who is viewed as a centrist, said the centrist strain of politician is declining and estimated that "there's fewer than 100" left in Congress. "We need more moderates and centrists in both parties," Carper said. "Part of politics is the art of compromise."

Funding DHS by passing a clean bill means the DHS passport checkers at the airport will continue to be paid. But it means so much more. Here is a short list of outcomes that you probably were not familiar with. 1) This bill, also known as "The bill to give Obama’s illegal amnesty program official sanction" gives Obama's illegal amnesty program official sanction. 2) "The bill to give Obama’s illegal amnesty program official sanction" also fully funds Obama's illegal amnesty program. 3) The Constitution has been shredded. 4) The GOP is now held in disrepute by everyone except the Chamber of Commerce. 5) Barack Obama is on his way to unrestrained power. I learned of all these downstream outcomes from reading Red State, which is my favorite thing to do after Boehner's occasional capitulations to reality.

From multiple interviews in recent days with party leaders and senior aides, it’s clear the GOP had no real strategy to successfully end the party’s first major standoff with Obama since taking power in January,” Politico reports.

“Republicans had hoped pressure would build on recalcitrant Senate Democrats to ultimately rebel against Obama and force him to capitulate — or at least prompt them to negotiate a compromise. That didn’t happen. They had hoped more public attention to the issue might be spawned by a new outside event, such as more migrant children appearing at the southern border. That didn’t happen. And they had hoped that more time would give their party a fresh opportunity to settle on a coordinated and coherent legislative response to the president. But that certainly didn’t happen.” Said on GOP senator: “Never go into these things without a plan.”

Planning would require thinking and analytical skills beyond the reach of your average tea party congressman.