An Alternative Universe without the Filibuster

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Two months ago, former Senator Ted Kaufman spoke to the monthly meeting of the Progressives Democrats for Delaware, one of the things he said that took me by surprise was his opposition to filibuster reform. Kaufman viewed the filibuster as an indispensable part of the check and balances of our government, and while he agreed that the Republicans have abused it, he would hate to see what a Republican President, a Republican House and a Republican Senate would do if minority Democrats had no power to stop legislation. But Kaufman was almost acting as if it were a fait accompli that the filibuster was going the way of the dinosaur, because he quaranteed that the Republicans, whenever they regain control of the Senate, would immediately do away with it, especially if they have a Republican President and House to work with. So what would the last four years look like without the filibuster?

See What Crazy Eileen Started – UPDATED

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We all remember Crazy Eileen, one of the first birthers to go public. Well, Arizona, not satisfied with being the batshit crazy place it’s become, has just added a new ingredient to the mix – birtherism. Their Secretary of State has indicated he may not allow President Obama’s name to appear on the ballot because he’s not convinced he was born in the US.

Polling Report [5.18.12]

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And here we have more national polls that together tell us nothing because each of them tells us a different story. Each of these statements is true, acorrding to one poll or the other: Obama is surging, Romney is surging, and things have remained unchanged in this close election. We have no state polls today, just national ones.

Delaware Political Weekly: May 12-18, 2012

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Looks Like Dori Connor’s In Trouble. This week’s huge development makes me wonder whether the incumbent state senator will even run for reelection. I’m guessing no. Democrats scored what appears to be quite the recruiting coup as Nicole Poore filed for the 12th Senatorial District seat currently held by Republican Dori Connor. Connor has yet to file. Connor has never had what one would call a credible Democratic challenger in this overwhelmingly-Democratic district.

Now Watch the Racists Really Go Nuts

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For the last several decades, the Republican Party has become the home of the angry whites who hate, just hate, that they have to share the country with other "inferior" races. And as those "inferior" races, taken together, kept growing in number and constituted more and more of the population of the United States, the angry they got. And whoa boy, we have seen how angry they got after a member of the "inferior" races was elected President!! "How dare he be elected!! He is not American because he is not white." Well, hang onto your heads, ladies and gentlemen. It is about to get worse.