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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Awake yet? We’re not talking Countdown To Ecstasy. We’re talking Countdown To Inevitability. A relatively drama-free June 30. We don’t yet know whether the Senate will take up the magazine ban bill that the House weakened. We don’t yet know whether the manufactured homeowners will prevail over the residents (two bills were laid on the […]
DL Open Thread June 30th 2021 – Openest of Open Threads
Yeah, this open thread last sold 8 years ago for $290,000 but we have had a lot of interest in it. A lot.
We’ll be looking at multiple offers and even though it is listed at $350,000 we think it might go for $425,0000.
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Let’s see…I’ve got my cold-brewed coffee w/oat milk at the ready, facing at least two hours of cogent analysis and unrelenting snark…let’s DO this! The Bill Mill is grinding overtime today, with multiple agendas in each chamber, and multiple consent agendas (meaning one yes vote can pass multiple bills). Of major note: The Bond Bill […]
Song of the Day 6/29: OMC, “How Bizarre”
This was the song of the summer 24 years ago, when it was inescapable on radio and MTV. Despite never being released as a single, it topped Billboard’s airplay chart in summer 1997, after reaching No. 1 first in the group’s native New Zealand, then in Australia and several European countries. OMC was started as […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday June 29th 2021
The last guy had horrible, unpopular ideas. And yet he got some shit done because he didn’t spend anytime trying to cajole or bargain with any mother-fuckers. Also in today’s open thread – gun violence that happens to other people, giving $19 million in tax money away to a massively wealthy Chinese drug Co., and being maskless was nice while it lasted.
Poof! There goes his Presidency – Biden has no fucking leverage whatsoever
He is so fucking thirsty for Coonsian Bipartisanship that McConnell has him by the balls in a is squeezing. It is nauseating to watch. McConnell attacks Democrats’ infrastructure strategy, threatening deal despite Biden’s olive branch to GOP President Joe Biden walked back a threat to veto the bipartisan deal unless Democrats’ plan is also passed, […]
What I Want Done (And Not Done) In The Next Two Legislative Days
Everybody has their wish-list. Here’s mine. I’m limiting this to those items that conceivably could be done before the conclusion of this legislative session. So, I’m not including pot legalization or Sen. Lockman’s admirable and ambitious police accountability bill. It’s not that long a list: I want to see the House pass SB 147 and […]
DL Open Thread Monday June 28th 2021 – Biden Badly Bungles Bridge Buttressing Bill
Lucy is always going to pull that football away. You and I see it so clearly, but Biden, Coons and the entire DC media thinks that if only Charlie Brown just tried a little harder… Biden shift reassures Republican senators on bipartisan infrastructure deal President Biden appears to have salvaged a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan […]
God (or whatever) Bless The Boris Johnson Administration for popularizing “Omnishambles”
The U.K.’s health minister, Matt Hancock, resigned this weekend after footage of him kissing and embracing an aide in his office was leaked to a tabloid newspaper [The Sun]. The story has many bizarre and alarming facets. • Hancock was already reeling from an earlier leak which showed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson described him […]
Song of the Day 6/27: Mumford and Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer”
Mumford and Sons, the British band that soared to popularity a decade ago by dressing up like farmers and playing Americana, hit the news this week when their banjo player left the band because, basically, he’s a right-wing dude-bro, and fans weren’t happy about it. Winston Marshall, 33, the group’s co-founder and a self-described “trustafarian,” […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 27, 2021
It’s been six years since the Supreme Court ruled that laws forbidding same-sex marriages were unconstitutional, and the warnings that it would destroy marriage seem to have melted into nothingness, just like most right-wing boogeymen. While some LGBTQ activists are disappointed that the ruling didn’t improve much else where rights are concerned, the just-completed census […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 26, 2021
Keep This Bill Dead And Buried. When the bill passed the House quite awhile ago, I thought it was a done deal in the Senate. Thankfully, it’s languished in the Senate, where it should remain. We’re talking about moving the primary to April: The end-of-summer primary is uniquely Delaware and uniquely effective. Titans have been […]
Coons’ Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Reveals Itself Momentarily – Goes Immediately Back into Hiding
The 14 Republicans who signed Wednesday’s bipartisan statement in support of the pared-down to nothing infrastructure bill are:
- Sens. Richard Burr, of North Carolina;
- Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana;
- Chris Coons, of Delaware;
- Susan Collins, of Maine;
- Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina;
- Joe Manchin, of West Virginia
- Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska;
- Rob Portman, of Ohio;
- Mitt Romney, of Utah;
- Mike Rounds, of South Dakota;
- Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona
- Thom Tillis, of North Carolina
- Todd Young, of Indiana
- Jerry Moran, of Kansas
Here is the list of Republicans Senators who will vote for the actual bill:
- Chris Coons, of Delaware;
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