Former President Donald Trump formally endorsed Alaska Republican Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka Friday, saying in a statement that GOP incumbent Lisa Murkowski “has got to go!”
Trump said earlier this year that he would not endorse Murkowski in next year’s election, even vowing to travel to The Last Frontier to campaign against the woman he called a “disloyal and very bad Senator.”
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Song of the Day 6/21: Blue Cheer, “Summertime Blues”
The year: 1968. The place: San Francisco, home to the blues-rock hybrid that came to be known as psychedelic or acid rock. The band: Blue Cheer, named for one of Owsley Stanley’s LSD recipes. The song: “Summertime Blues,” the biggest hit (Billboard No. 8, 1958) for rockabilly pioneer Eddie Cochran, who had a knack for […]
Coons Working Overtime to Fuck Up Biden’s Infrastructure Plan – Press Finds Liberal Democrats at Fault
To be aware is a curse. Just check out these headlines.
Democrats Split on Biden Infrastructure Bill
DL Open Thread Monday June 21st
Biden should seriously say “Arizona Conservatives, DO NOT get vaccinated. Do not wear masks. That is an order from your duly elected President.” I don’t think there is any other way to get through to these fuckwits.
In other Covid news, Everybody knew Trump was an idiot fucking up our Covid-19 response. But Johnson only seemed to be playing the role of a fucking idiot for grins. He wasn’t play acting.
But first, I’d take Amtrack up on this deal if I had a month off.
Song of the Day 6/20: Nat King Cole, “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer”
Has there ever been a summer better suited to nostalgia than this one? After the Year Without a Summer, people are going to appreciate every little pleasure a good bit more. Nat King Cole was more TV star than singer by the time this jolly number reached No. 6 on the Hot 100 in 1963. […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 20, 2021
Bipartisan Boy, in his secret identity as mild-mannered Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, has used his progressivism-fighting powers to issue a press release, co-signed by nine other Democrats and 10 Republicans, informing the world that they don’t need no stinkin’ tax increases. You know, those onerous Biden tax proposals that would increase taxes on those earning […]
Witzke vs Reality
Christians are so persecuted in America. Christians are forced to practice their religion in secret. They are exiled, executed by beheading and by being fed to beasts. Their families are broken up and they are forced into servitude. They are unable to buy or own property. They are systematically denied civil protections. Abused by police. Offered no protections from the courts. It is pretty horrible to be a Christian in America. It’s like Nazi Germany meets the slave owning south.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 19, 2021
Why Are Catholic Bishops Going After Biden? Yet another lurch towards irrelevance. I’m sure this will lead to packed pews on Sundays. ‘Many Bad People In The Mask Industry’. The spectacular failure of Mike Lindell’s entry into the mask business: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s charity and business combo venture to make and sell COVID-19 masks […]
Trump backs Murkowski challenger, says GOP incumbent has ‘got to go’
Murkowski is a key member of Coons’ Super Secret Bi-Partisan Caucus which I’m sure is going to spring into action and save America with glorious BiPartisanship any minute now.
Song of the Day 6/18: Bowling for Soup feat. Hanson, “Where’s the Love”
How’s this for postmodernism in practice: A punk-pop band popular in the ’00s covers a hit by a ’90s boy band, gets them to sing back-up on the single, then sets the whole thing to a video featuring animation in the ’70s style of “Scooby Doo.” Bowling for Soup’s sense of humor always distinguished them […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 18, 2021
We (Almost) Have A Progressive General Assembly! Passage of the $15 minimum wage bill is a BFD. The Senate has become a progressive legislative body run by progressive leaders. There hasn’t been a single piece of progressive legislation that has been deep-sixed there, and a whole lot of progressive initiatives have started there. The combination […]
Song of the Day 6/17: Boz Scaggs, “We Were Always Sweethearts”
This one’s for El Somnambulo, the biggest Boz Scaggs fan I know — and not just of the “Silk Degrees” tunes that remain in classic-rock rotation today. This song led off 1971’s “Moments,” Scaggs’ second solo album after leaving the Steve Miller Band, but it was his first-ever single. You’d think its Latin rhythm and […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, June 17, 2021
The Intercept got ahold of a Zoom call between West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and a centrist money-dispensing outfit called No Labels — founded by ex-Sen. Joe Lieberman — in which Manchin reveals his true feelings about filibuster reform, among other things. Most noteworthy to me was Manchin’s begging these donors to help him find […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 17, 2021
$15 MINIMUM WAGE DAY. If we had a Democratic governor, the outcome would not be in question. “Pass this bill, then come on up to my office, and I will sign it right now. Photo ops for EVERYBODY.” Instead, we have arguably the strangest governor we’ve had (which is saying something, considering Carper was governor), […]
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