Delaware Liberal

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…

Why not use your state issued P-card to throw these guys a recurring five or ten dollar patronage?

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 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.…

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…

Good mornin', starshine The Earth says, "Hello" You twinkle above us Coons, Biden and LBR twinkle below…

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The Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry is partying like it is 1868.

Essentially, Justice Alito argued that for an unwritten liberty right to be legitimate, it must be deeply rooted in the nation’s history and have been understood to exist when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Back then, he wrote, many states had criminalized abortion and there was no understanding that women had a right to end their pregnancies.

Many people are wondering how this leaves Justice Clarance Thomas marriage to insane rightwing nutcase Ginni Thomas intact, but invoking the well known precedent of "LOL, Fuck YOU!" Thomas seems ready to damn the torpedoes. Collins is shocked. Biden thinks Dems need to vote HARDER! Coons thinks this came out of the blue, (had nothing to do with the US Senate where bipartisan compromise is still possible [see recent gun deal crumbs scoffingly served up by Mitch McConnell]). Lisa Blundt Rochester (rightly) thinks the work of the Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry will fall "disproportionately on women of color and in rural communities across the country"  but (wrongly) thinks the answer is to VOTE HARDER. Can someone let me know when the Democratic strategy of offering nothing to voters other than scolding admonitions to "VOTE HARDER!" has actually worked?  Because from where I'm sitting it seems like offering voters nothing except  scolding admonitions to vote harder is exactly the strategy that got us here.    

The very office that is charged with rooting out the state government's "waste fraud and abuse" was a hotbed of waste fraud and abuse. It's 6 days in and the trial finally touches on the fact that while Kathy was doing all this shit and bringing on her daughter and her daughter's buddy and making up loyalty oaths and misusing the state seal to glorify Kathy McGuiness, the thing she wasn't doing was her fucking job. Now that's not a crime, but it should be judged like one by the voters.