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The Coons Soaking the Spotlight for All Its Worth Announcement

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on August 31, 2015 • 6 Comments

I think Senator Chris Coons desires more war and thus he is a no on the Iran Deal. My evidence for this is that he is doing what fellow Senator Bob Menendez did: give a highly touted speech at a University to announce your decision. If he was a yes, he would just announce it in an interview or a press release like Tom Carper did, and like 30 other of his fellow Democratic Senators.

I hope I am wrong, and I will publicly say I was wrong here tomorrow if Coons surprises me, and makes a big show of voting yes. But, that is not the feel I am getting. So if you feel like attending a speech to boo and heckle the Senator nonstop throughout his speech once he announces his no vote, here are the details.

WHAT: United States Senator Chris Coons announces position on nuclear deal with Iran.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 1 at 2 p.m.
WHERE: University of Delaware, Institute for Global Studies, 44 Kent Way, Newark, DE 19716
CONTACT: Sean Coit (Coons) at sean_coit@coons.senate.gov or 202-224-0351 or 202-794-0670
LIVESTREAM: http://www.udel.edu/udlive
PARKING: Validation will be provided for the nearby Center for the Arts parking garage

The only thing that gives me pause in thinking that Coons will be a no is the fact that it is very clear to all concerned that Iran Deal will obtain the support of 34 Democratic Senators it needs to sustain the President’s veto. Indeed, the only real suspenseful question is whether the Democrats can obtain the 41 votes they need to filibuster the rejection from ever getting to the President’s desk. The warmongering campaign that Iran Deal opponents launched failed, and everyone knows it….

Saturday Open Thread [6.8.13]

Filed in Open Thread by cassandra_m on June 8, 2013 • 12 Comments

Yesterday, President Obama strongly defended the NSA’s Big Surveillance program:

Obama, who ran for president in 2008 on a platform of reversing some of the Bush administration’s encroachments on civil liberties, instead defended the programs. ”I came in with a healthy skepticism about these program,” Obama said, noting his administration has strengthened some program safeguards. “My assessment and my team’s assessment is that they help us prevent terrorist attacks.”

The Polling Report [4.4.13]

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on April 5, 2013 • 16 Comments

We’ve got a lot of national polls this week on a host of issues, from immigration to gun control to job creation, spending cuts, and raising revenue, and on each the Democrats’ and the President’s positions are preferred, in some cases overwhelmingly, by the majority of Americans. Their respective job approvals are higher than that of their Republican counterparts. So why is it that Republicans like Speaker Boehner and Congressman Paul Ryan, or basically any Republican in front of a microphone or a camera, say that the American people want what they are selling. It never fails. It is what they always say. Are they just lying because our cowardly limp press will never challenge them on it? Or are they trying to move polls to their favor by repeating a lie?

Tuesday Open Thread [3.12.13]

Filed in Open Thread by Delaware Dem on March 12, 2013 • 51 Comments

More facts for the Fact Averse:

Peter Beinart is now convinced that “Jeb Bush will never seriously challenge for the presidency—because to seriously challenge for the presidency, a Republican will have to pointedly distance himself from Jeb’s older brother”:

No Republican will enjoy credibility as a deficit hawk unless he or she acknowledges that George W. Bush squandered the budget surplus he inherited. No Republican will be able to promise foreign-policy competence unless he or she acknowledges the Bush administration’s disastrous mismanagement in Afghanistan and Iraq. It won’t be enough for a candidate merely to keep his or her distance from W. John McCain and Mitt Romney tried that, and they failed because the Obama campaign hung Bush around their neck every chance it got. To seriously compete, the next Republican candidate for president will have to preempt that Democratic line of attack by repudiating key aspects of Bush’s legacy. Jeb Bush would find that excruciatingly hard even if he wanted to. And as his interviews Sunday make clear, he doesn’t event want to try.

Carper’s Gone Rogue. Make That Rogue-er.

Filed in Delaware, National by El Somnambulo on January 3, 2013 • 25 Comments

Poor despairing Tom Carper. Forced to sit in his Senate Democratic Caucus and see his dreams of ‘entitlement reform’, aka gut the New Deal and the Great Society, go down the drain. From today’s unbelievable (but true) News-Journal piece:

Carper said he “sat there in despair” during meetings with fellow Democrats to discuss the deal brokered by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Carper had been telling colleagues for months this was their chance to do something meaningful about tax and entitlement reforms. The deal ultimately passed by Congress does neither, he said.

Don’t believe that Carper is going after Social Security? Read this illogic in all its Carperesque rationalization, then read what Sen. Bernie Sanders has to say about it:

QOTD — Should Republicans Speak at the DNC Convention?

Filed in National by cassandra_m on August 10, 2012 • 16 Comments

TPM (via the dreaded POLITICO) reports that the DNC is thinking of including 2 or 3 moderate Republican leaders to the speaking lineup for the convention. What do you think about this idea?

Game Change

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on January 21, 2012 • 28 Comments

This is a massively devastating loss for Mitt Romney. The candidate that conventional wisdom says would be most competitive against President Obama in the general election just had his hat handed to him. But this past week to two weeks have changed my mind on that, the conventional wisdom. I now believe, if things stay as they are, and especially if the economy continues to improve, that no Republican candidate currently running will beat Obama in the general. Romney is fatally damaged by Bain Capital and his tax returns. President Obama may actually want to face Romney and depict him as the poster boy for the 1%, because he is.

And then you have Newt Gingrich, who favorability ratings nationwide as Palinesque, if not worse. They are at -32 last time I checked. That is not only toxic to Gingrich, it will bring the whole GOP down. I just saw Haley Barbour quoted on Twitter saying that he doesn’t want to have Gingrich as the nominee because he likes having a Republican Speaker of the House, meaning of course if Gingrich is the nominee, the Democrats will sweep the GOP out of majority control. And he is right. So Gingrich is not a general election threat.

But he is now a massive threat to Mitt Romney.

Traitor

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on December 21, 2011 • 18 Comments

At the same time Tom Carper was the supposed Public Option champion in the Senate, he was telling hedge fund investors that, no worries, he would kill it, so invest in private companies.

More Clueless: Tom Carper or Evan Queitsch? YOU Decide.

Filed in National by El Somnambulo on December 1, 2011 • 57 Comments

Is it a Democratic Senator who is merely Bill Roth with lousier constituent services, or is it Evan Quetsch, who thinks the University of Delaware is a branch of government.

Thanksgiving Eve Open Thread [11.23.11]

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on November 23, 2011 • 34 Comments

To prove that there is no issue on which he won’t flip flop, and I mean NO issue. Mitt Romney now says his first name is Mitt. Previously, his first name was Willard.

If You Want Accuracy, Listen To Liberals

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on May 4, 2011 • 15 Comments

Pundits were rated for accuracy of their predictions. Paul Krugman was the best and Cal Thomas was the worst. All the top 5 pundits in accuracy were liberals and Democrats.