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Song of the Day 1/15: Sufjan Stevens, “Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!”
The irony of Republicans trying to restrict the teaching of history when they’re ignorant of it in the first place is lost on Republicans themselves, so they don’t recognize when they should be humiliated. Consider the case of the newly elected Virginia state delegate — Republican, of course — who authored a bill banning “divisive […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 15, 2022
What Democrats Need To Do On Voting Rights Now That Democrats Sabotaged Voting Rights Legislation. Depressing, I know: With the door slammed shut this week on federal legislation to create new protections for access to voting, Democrats face an electoral landscape in which they will need to spend heavily to register and mobilize voters if […]
Simple explainer on why democracy in America will lose, unless Democrats wake up
This is why Coons’ mania for “Bipartisanship Above the Republic Itself” is so pernicious and so unforgivable. Using a whiteboard, author and Ohio politician David Pepper posted a video (linked here) on his Twitter account describing “two sides of an epic struggle in America right now.” But each side is fighting for something different, “and that’s […]
Sinema’s Statement Out Coons’es Chris Coons
Sinema saying that Dem leadership should’ve worked harder to build GOP support for voting rights is pure Chris Coons Bipartisanship Über Alles. “I wish there had been a more serious effort on the part of Democratic Party lines to sit down with the other party and genuinely discuss how to reforge common ground on these […]
Is it time for liberals to go on strike against the radical centrist Democratic Party?
Look. “Angry liberals” will get blamed for the failure of the radical centrist Democratic Party anyway, so maybe it is time to earn that scorn and reprobation we are going to be getting no matter how badly centrist bomb throwers fuck shit up?
Maybe it is time for all left of center Dems to quit the party or at least provide zero votes (or money) to the party or to any Dem candidate until it reigns in the centrist zealots who are committed to failure?
“Liberals” have been the most loyal but most routinely ignored part of the Dem coalition. It seems to me that it is time for the party to pay a price for being in the thrall of radical centrism.
DL Open Thread: Friday, Jan. 14, 2022
How The Big Quit Happened. An absolute must-read from Mother Jones: Quits are a Janus-faced piece of economic data—a sign of how bad our work politics have gotten, and also of hope that they could be better. It signals that people are fed up but also confident they can find new jobs, often better-paying ones. […]
No More Presidential Debates
I can’t say I’m sad about this. The televised “debates” have become pretty dumb. It is all just trolling for gotcha moments and elevating the nonsense candidate to the level of the legitimate candidate. SEAN HANNITY (HOST): The RNC today did something that I’ve been saying they should have done a long time ago, and […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Jan. 7-13, 2022
1. Filing Fees Finalized. Candidates Start Filing. Here’s who have so far: Jack Bucchioni: D-SD 6 in Sussex County. This is the district currently held by R Ernie Lopez, who is retiring, at least from this seat. Mark Pugh: R-SD 14 in Kent County. This is the district currently held by Bruce Ennis. Pugh got […]
Song of the Day 1/13: The Ronettes, “Be My Baby”
For a brief time, Veronica “Ronnie” Bennett, who died yesterday at age 78, was the hottest girl-group singer in the world. Thanks to producer Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound treatment, “Be My Baby” hit No. 2 in 1963 and the Ronettes — Ronnie backed by her sister and her cousin — were, after several years […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, January 13, 2022
First, the big news. The brand-new marijuana legalization bill has been introduced. It’s clearly an attempt to overcome the pitfalls that befell the bill last year. It doesn’t permit people to grow their own marijuana which, of course, is ridiculous. It still enables cops to pretend to smell marijuana when they’ve stopped you. The main […]
Black Opry Revue Coming To Arden Gild Hall!!
The Arden Concert Gild will host the Black Opry Revue on Saturday, Feb.26, 2022 at the Arden Gild Hall at 8 p.m. Black Opry is a home for Black artists and Black fans of country, blues, folk and Americana music. The concert, which is being presented in conjunction with Black History Month, will feature these […]
DL Open Thread For Thursday, January 13, 2022
No ‘Jibby-Jabby’ For This Jibber-Jabberer. With the inevitable outcome. This Super-Spreader event in Texas has been extraordinarily successful in thinning out the herd: Canon had announced on Facebook in November that her employer granted her a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine. “No jabby-jabby for me! Praise GOD!” she wrote at the time. More recently, […]
GOP to Run Out the Clock, Then Arrest the Whole Biden Admin After the Mid-Terms
It isn’t a secret plot. You do not have to know how to decode subtle signs. It is right out in the open.
Oh well, the wholly powerless figure-head President and pretend legislature can’t do anything about it.
Kevin McCarthy Refuses Interview Request From Jan. 6 Committee
The panel said it was interested in conversations the top House Republican had with President Donald J. Trump on the day of the riot and afterward.
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