DL Open Thread Wednesday June 29 2022
Jan 6 hearings: Ex-aide paints devastating picture of Trump Turkey lifts veto on Finland, Sweden joining NATO, clearing path for expansion Last week, even before the coming holiday rush,…
Chris Coons Deserves Every Turd Thrown at Him
I was talking to someone the other day who said he thought Jason gives Delaware's junior senator too much shit. Duncan Black, who blogs as Atrios at eschatonblog.com, would beg…
A First Hand Witness to a Coup Attempt Speaks
Mark Meadows is a fucking liar and a traitor. Cassidy Hutchinson — a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows - was a first hand witness…
REV and Bill Cover the McGuiness Trial Part 10: Spiros! Yo, Spiros Mantzavinos..where are you scurrying off to all of a sudden?
The cold open alone is worth getting off the wallet and setting up a recurring patronage. Beyond that Horsey is a Kent County/Eastern Shore name. There is a Horsey Blvd…
DL Open Thread Tuesday July 28 2022
Cable news has had "Roe V Wade" obituaries in the can and ready to go for months, but there was zero White House plan for this ruling beyond the utter…
Support the First State Abortion Fund
We all know that the sisters, wives, daughters and granddaughters of Supreme Court Justices and US Senators will always have all the access to abortions and whatever reproductive health care…
Minority Rule
Al, this graph really puts what you've been saying about minority rule into sharp focus. If the United States had a functioning Democratic Party, this would be a real problem…
REV and Bill Cover the McGuiness Trial Part 9 – “This is what you wanted, Right!?”
Why not use your state issued P-card to throw these guys a recurring five or ten dollar patronage?
As the Kathy McGuiness trial ended its second week, Kathy's hyper-paranoid office shenanigans are explored by even more witnesses. Also, is Judge Carpenter finally tamping down on the razzle dazzle?
"The inappropriate comments between counsel are stopping today."
DL Open Thread Monday June 27 2022
Very important action item from Sean Lynn below, but first...
Chris Coons Heaps Praise on John Cornyn While John Cornyn Heaps Shame on Himself
Coons: I am proud to partner with Senator Cornyn on this bipartisan effort to support scholarship on civics, the preparation of civics educators, and the training of a new generation of active citizens.”Just days later Senator John Cornyn provides a civics lesson via tweet:
@JohnCornyn Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education. Quote Tweet Barack Obama @BarackObama · Jun 24 Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.You read that right. The very guy who Coons is "proud" to call his partner, just quote tweeted Barack Obama and said that now that Roe is gone, Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education should follow. There is literally nothing they can do or say that can do to shake Coons' faith in the goodwill of his Republican partners.
Coons Gloats Over Glorious Bipartisan Work with Rob Portman While Portman Gloats Over the Destruction of Woman’s Reproductive Health Care
Coons can't help it. He has to provide sloppy on camera BJs to any Republicans who is willing to put out a press release with the word "bipartisanship" in it.…
Song of the Day 6/26: Stubby Kaye and Peter Palmer, “The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands”
Today's song comes from the 1959 Broadway musical "L'il Abner," and it shows that hayseeds have been bitching about the same crap for generations. My memory was jogged last Sunday…
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 26, 2022
Republicans, drunk on their own minority-rule power, think they now have a shot at banning abortion nationwide. If all they have to do to achieve it is outwit our feckless…
Senator Chris Coons Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Rebranding as the “Shocked, Sad, Disappointed & Betrayed” Caucus
You'd have to be a stone cold dummy to go around saying that this is all some kind of surprise. Or, I suppose, you could act surprised if you were…