Open Thread – Page 64 – Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 7, 2024

By El Somnambulo July 7, 20248 Comments

For the purposes of today's Open Thread, I'm gonna assume that Joe will eventually realize he has no choice but to end his candidacy, so I will discuss it no…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 6, 2024

By El Somnambulo July 6, 20241 Comment

I didn't watch last week's debate. I dreaded it, and just tried to ignore it. Wasn't until the next day that I read the virtually 100% consensus that it was…

DL Open Thread: Friday, July 5, 2024

By El Somnambulo July 5, 20245 Comments

The Third Way Comes To England. With a less-charismatic Tony Blair: Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph’s political editor, suggests it is “perhaps the most significant phrase” of the speech. He posted:…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 4, 2024

By El Somnambulo July 4, 202411 Comments

Typically one of the least-read Open Threads Of The Year. Will this year be different? I write, you decide. Every columnist everywhere has weighed in on whether Biden should step…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 3, 2024

By Alby July 3, 202415 Comments

Democrats, faced with adversity, are doing what they do best: Panicking and looking weak. A group of about two dozen House Democrats are planning to call on Biden to drop…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, July 2, 2024

By Alby July 2, 202424 Comments

All you people who were freaking out over Joe Biden's stumblebum debate performance now have something bigger to freak out about, as the nation's corrupt Supreme Court just made Richard…

DL Open Thread Monday, July 1, 2024

By Alby July 1, 202420 Comments

Joe Biden's terrible debate performance set off several days of Democratic soul searching, but sadly, the search has been fruitless. They still haven't found one. Frankly, the widespread panic embodies…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 30, 2024

By El Somnambulo June 30, 20243 Comments

An Open Convention? I'm not always in tune with what Ezra Klein proposes, but this at least deserves consideration: In “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of…

DL Open Thread: Sat., June 29, 2024

By El Somnambulo June 29, 20246 Comments

Josh Marshall: Only Alternative To Biden Is Harris. Makes sense to me: The one thing that seems clear to me is that there’s only one Plan B and that’s Kamala…

DL Open Thread: Friday, June 28, 2024

By El Somnambulo June 28, 202423 Comments

Anybody at that Debate Party at DelDems HQ last night? Or is it too early to have sobered up? I'll merely cut-and-paste what I wrote yesterday: Anyone else not gonna…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 27, 2024

By El Somnambulo June 27, 202412 Comments

Anyone else not gonna watch tonight's 'debate'? I'm almost over the denial phase of my grief, headed towards--whatever comes after the denial stage of grief. As much as Biden is…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 26, 2024

By El Somnambulo June 26, 202428 Comments

The Big News: BHL Took A Walk. Why? Because there was a distinct possibility that the vote on Paul Baumbach's HB 140 would have been a 10-10 tie--said tie then…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, June 26, 2024

By Alby June 26, 20241 Comment

One of the news media's longest-running crime dramas came to an underwhelming finish yesterday when the U.S. government reached a plea deal with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange that will allow…