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Hey John Carney, Stop the Lies
RISE is fighting hard. I hope they expand their field of vision to fight for future in addition to current retirees, but that is nit picking.
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Big day in the Senate. ‘Permit To Purchase’ is first on the Agenda. It will pass. Whether we have the marathon debate, or whether the opponents hold their, pardon the expression, fire, for the House, remains to be seen. I’ve heard the debate so many times that I likely won’t watch. As always, the part […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday May 2 2023
Biden is in a tough spot. MAGA extremists in Congress don’t want a deal. They want to blow shit up. The debt ceiling is custom made for their brand of terrorism. Yellen says drop-dead date for debt ceiling is June 1 Lawmakers have until June 1 to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: April 2023
What strikes your fancy or, in the case of dance numbers, your fanny?: Might want to do the Horizontal Mambo to this one: MY kind of band!: Already the second song from this artist to make it on to my Best-Ofs this year. Love the Toni Morrison mash-up: Whoa. Last-minute addition, and it’s quite a […]
DL Open Thread Monday May 1st 2023
What’s the over/under for how many elections the DEGOP is going to lose under the new radical MAGA administration? The Monday’s top two stories may provide some answers.
Murray Blame Game Starts Minute 1 of Day 1
Murray wasted no time sloughing off responsibility for the DEGOP’s impending losses to a not yet hired executive director and “several committees.”
“…we have to hire an executive director, our bylaws require it. … I’ve got to start there,” Murray said. “And that’s the person who’s going to be responsible for herding all of the cats. I have to operate more at a strategic level. We have several committees that we’re going to form. And I’m excited about that.”
She’ll be thinking big thoughts. Terrific. Yesterday I mentioned a preview she gave as to what big thoughts she might be thinking – MORE GUNS! Just what the electorate is clamoring for.
Poll Results and Next Week’s Poll
Thanks to everyone who “joined” DL this month by supporting Working Families Party , Highlands Bunker, Claymont Food Closet and/or Friendship House I increased my support for Highlands Bunker and made a donation to the Claymont Food Closet. Our goal was to have 20 new DL members (or 20 new members/donors) for these fine orgs. […]
Song of the Day 4/30: The Heavy Heavy, “Go Down River”
I caught half of this song on the radio the other day and thought it was some rediscovered ’60s nugget. Turns out the Heavy Heavy is a Brighton, UK, band led by Will Turner and Georgie Fuller. Their shared vocals and psychedelic jangle give them a Delaney and Bonnie vibe, especially on this tune, the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 30, 2023
How George Mason Became The Federalist Society’s Go-To Law School: In the fall of 2017, an administrator at George Mason University’s law school circulated a confidential memo about a prospective hire. Just months earlier, Neil M. Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge from Colorado, had won confirmation to the Supreme Court seat left vacant by […]
Murray defeat of Brady reveals north/south split in DEGOP – And not the split you expect
There is a North/South split in the GOP. It is, as you might expect, along the lines of MAGA vs people who have a dim memory of when the GOP could win an election in Delaware. But it is not crazies in the south, “sane” Republicans in the north.
The convention counted 338 delegates: 49 from Northern New Castle, 58 from Western New Castle, 51 from Colonial New Castle, 73 from Kent County, and 107 from Sussex County. Murray got 182 votes to Brady’s 155. Her biggest strength was in Colonial, in eastern New Castle County, where she got 44 votes to Brady’s four.
Among people active enough to take part in party politics, the Murray defeat of Brady has flipped the old conventional wisdom on its head. The newbie MAGA nuts who have joined since Trump are in the North, and the old timers who have a vague memory of Mike Castle and Pete Dupont are hanging on in Sussex.
Breaking – Jane Brady Out at DEGOP, Dumpster Fire Now Chaired by Julianne Murray
In a close (155/182) vote, Jonny-come-lately MAGAt Brady was defeated by genuine MAGAt Murray.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Just Another Texas Mass-Killing. He got pissed off when his neighbors told him to stop shooting his AR-15 in his front yard. So he killed five of ’em: The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard […]
Go Forbid the workers should get a little leverage. That would be bad for “the economy”
Yeah. Its pretty obviously not about inflation. It’s about keeping the boot on the necks of the workers.
Coons Honored Among the “Thirstiest Members of Congress” in Politico’s First Annual Thirsty for Media Attention Awards
It’s official. Coons is gross. And it isn’t just me saying it.
Presenting the first-ever Thirsties, for those who excel in Washington’s signature art form: trying to get on your TV screen tonight.
Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Washington hasn’t had its own awards — until now.
Introducing the Thirsties, a celebration of the quality that defines this place.
You know what we’re talking about: the thirst. That unquenchable drive for publicity, attention, buzz. Call it what you want, This Town is full of it. The thirst can be found in staffers, lobbyists — even journalists, who are supposed to be covering the story, not angling for a starring role in it. To paraphrase a hoary old Washington line on something almost as obscene: You know thirst when you see it.
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