Just read this “Clinton Grants China MFN, Reversing Campaign Pledge” from 1994

Trump is right about one thing and one thing only. China is kicking our ass. Read this nonsense from 1994 about what was supposed to happen in China and have a good laugh, or a good cry depending on your mood.
President Clinton Thursday reversed course on China and renewed its trade privileges despite what he said was Beijing's lack of significant progress on human rights. Echoing the case made by George Bush when he was president, Clinton said he was convinced the Chinese would take more steps to improve human rights if the issue were separated from the threat of trade sanctions. "This decision offers us the best opportunity to lay the basis for long-term sustainable progress on human rights and for the advancement of our other interests with China," he said at a news conference announcing his decision to extend China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status.

DL Open Thread Monday 9/16

Democrats, especially those running for president or re-election, are demanding impeachment -- not of Trump, but of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, based on his lies to the Senate about…

Madinah Wilson-Anton is a Democrat running for state representative in the 26th RD

Viola to face a primary unless he steps down. https://youtu.be/tUfxBz-HoaE
I'm running for office because the system is broken, and we need to fix it. Our education system is unfair, and too many of us cannot afford the rising costs of housing and healthcare. It's time to make the system work for US. Go to http://MadinahforDelaware.com to get involved! #netDE
Wilson-Anton is a legit challenger who has already built support outside of and within the Democratic Party.

DL Open Thread Sunday 9/15

The New York Times published a long story about Deborah Ramirez' experience with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's during his time at Yale and found that yes, actually, it was…

Kathleen McGuiness

Even though McGuiness is only nominally a Democrat, this kind of thing reflects badly on every Democrat. There is no way this should be allowed to continue and it shouldn't just disappear without a public rebuke from the Governor.

Reparations for Slavery, Reparations for Jim Crow, Reparations for Today

When people say dumb fucking shit like "I never owned slaves" to me, I ask them. "What's the longest you've ever stood in line to vote?" If you are white the answer is typically maybe a half hour. I've never waited longer than ten minutes. If you are black the answer could be "all day and into the night." American mistreatment of slaves has never ended. We've run a "war on drugs" as a pretext to mistreat the grandchildren of enslaved Africans. We put heavy industry in the neighborhoods of African Americans. And now we are closing polling places where the decedents of slaves reside.

DL Open Thread for Sept. 14

Democratic dithering over their sort-of impeachment inquiry is being used against them by the Trump Department of Justice, which is arguing Congress doesn't deserve to see grand jury testimony from…