The Delaware Way

The Delaware Way

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Well, if you are an activist, it means you are of no value to our government. It means you cannot be in government. It means you cannot be a legislator. That was the reasoning given to Representative John Kowalko for his removal from the House Education Committee by Speaker John Kowalko, according to Mr. Kowalko. You can believe that or not, but I do, because it fits the pattern of the Delaware Way, and of Mr. Schwartzkopf, and of Governor Markell. Those words are as much a declaration of war against you, me, and all Progressives, all activists, from the corporate establishment that I have ever heard. Only corporate whores who fellate regularly can serve.
Politics is Petty

Politics is Petty

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Nancy Willing at Delaware Way has been all over this and I'm sure El Som will be into the nitty gritty of how and why Kowalko was bounced from the Chairmanship of Energy and from the Education Committee. All I can really add is that Jack Markell seems to really hate John Kowalko on a personal level. I had heard stories from early in Jack's tenure and I chalked it up to hyperbole, but it gets hard to ignore stories when confirming evidence starts to pile up.
Monday Open Thread [1.5.15]

Monday Open Thread [1.5.15]

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced on CBS’s Face The Nation that Senate Democrats have enough votes to sustain the widely expected veto that President Obama will issue after Republicans pass a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
“I think there will be enough Democratic votes to sustain the president’s veto…Our Republican colleagues say that this is a jobs bill but that really is not true at all. By most estimates it would create several thousand temporary construction jobs and only 35 permanent jobs…Why create very few jobs with the dirtiest of energy from tar sands when you can create tens of thousands more clean jobs using wind and solar? Our Republican colleagues are doing what they always do: they’re appeasing a few special interests — in this case oil companies and pipeline companies and not really doing what’s good for the average middle class family in terms of creating jobs.”
I expect Chris Coons to vote no. I expect Tom Carper, the treasonous Republican, to vote yes.

A New Slogan for Delaware

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The older "Small Wonder" signs have been replaced with even more generic "Welcome to Delaware, Jack A. Markell, Governor" signs ahead of a new Tourism and Marketing Project that will be revealed today at the Brandywine Creek State Park. What do you think Delaware's new slogan should be? Answer in the comments or take the poll on the front page.
Friday Open Thread [1.2.15]

Friday Open Thread [1.2.15]

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Matt Taibbi on the news that the fascist police state loving NYPD has begun a work slowdown/stoppage:
“My first response to this news was confusion. I get why the police are protesting – they’re pissed at Mayor de Blasio, and more on that in a minute – but this sort of ‘protest’ pulls this story out of the standard left-right culture war script it had been following and into surreal territory.” “I don’t know any police officer anywhere who would refuse to arrest a truly dangerous criminal as part of a PBA-led political gambit. So the essence of this protest seems now to be about trying to hit de Blasio where it hurts, i.e. in the budget, without actually endangering the public. So this police protest, unwittingly, is leading to the exposure of the very policies that anger so many different constituencies about modern law-enforcement tactics.”
Indeed.