Posthumous Baptism

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I am Catholic. A non-devout Catholic. A Cafeteria Catholic, as it were. I really do not care about what other Christian denominations or other religions believe or don't believe. And I am not really offended by what they think about me and my beliefs. For example, I could be offended by the Evangelicals and their belief that I am going to Hell if I don't "find" Jesus. Like I always tell them, I don't need to find Jesus. I never lost Him. But I digress. Like I said, other religions can believe what they want. What they cannot do, however, is involve me in their religions against my will, or without my knowledge.

Rick Jensen Interviews Red Clay Officials On Referendum

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Kilroy live-blogged the show. Go over to his place and read the whole thing! Before I get into what was said during the interview let me say that it looks like we've found a tax increase that Rick Jensen supports. According to Kilroy, when Red Clay was asked about building a school in the city, rather than the suburbs, their answer was to cite the number of Charter Schools that opened in the city. Seriously? Charter Schools are not Red Clay schools, and that statement sounded as if RCCD was saying, "We don't need to consider our city residents since, if they aren't happy with our RCCD schools, they can leave our traditional public schools and go to Charter schools.

Now Romney will Attempt to Destroy Santorum

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It is all he can do. Romney has no raison d'être for his candidacy. No vision. No core principles. He can't beat a conservative opponent on ideas or on his conservative record. He can only beat him by carpet bombing the airwaves and raising Santorum's negatives as high as his. And the more he does it, the more radioactive he becomes for the general election, and he is already at toxic levels as it is. After a prolonged battle with Santorum, Romney will be at Fukushima levels.

Christine O’Donnell Wants Some Attention

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I missed this over the weekend, as I was busy with family events and real world work sidetracked me yesterday. But the wonderful gathering of hatred, ignorance and arrogance known as CPAC was held in Washington this past weekend, and of course, Delaware's own original wingnut theocrat Christine O'Donnell was in attendance. You remember that she sold herself out and endorsed Romney, don't you? Well now she expects some payback, Mitt, for all she has given you. She took it upon herself to inform the New York magazine that she would consider serving in a Mitt Romney administration.

Queen Takes Republican Bishop – Checkmate

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While there were many lessens learned through the Komen fiasco the main one was: Stop messing with Women's Health or face the consequences. Republicans would be wise to study what happened to Komen, because their plan of going after contraception could very well destroy them in the same way it destroyed Komen. By moving contraception into the forefront of the abortion wars the GOP has not only revealed its true strategy, it has exposed its King. And everyone knows that the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board. Lose your Queen, lose the... election?

NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Care is Not Important Unless Men Say It Is

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The editorial in Saturday's NJ does a couple of dumb and dangerous things in siding with the religious leaders who have been howling about the Obama Administration's ACA rule that religious institutions need to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of a preventative care package. This isn't the first time that the NJ editorial has been quick to join the war on women's health care. And as usual, the NJ editorial staff doing the writing of this thing never bothered to inform themselves of the facts of this business and pretty much just repeat what they see on cable TV.

Eye of Newt

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Newt Gingrich might have called out Mitt Romney on his "pious baloney," but poor Newt might now be classified as "desperate baloney" after being eclipsed this week by the frothy Rick Santorum in Colorado and Minnesota.

Delaware Political Weekly: February 4-10, 2012

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Missed this one last week, but someone named Ben Mobley, who is running for Insurance Commissioner on the R side, failed to file his campaign finance report. Celia Cohen, who still covers Rethug politics, at least New Castle County-style, has what passes for the story here. BTW, Mobley is an 'investment advisor' at Morgan Stanley. Don't they have to know some legal thingies? Maybe it's other legal thingies... Doesn't matter. He will not be our next IC. But, if you can stomach it, here is Ben Mobley with an ever-smarmier Charlie 'Bouvier de Flandres' Copeland channeling his inner Mitt Romney. FWIW, I like Mobley a lot better in this clip than Copeland. Just look at the studied casualness of Copeland's attire.