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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023
Handicapping the Speaker Stakes? Now there are only eight entrants as Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania has scratched himself from the race. Meuser, who represents a big slice of the state’s northern hinterlands west of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, begged off due to other commitments, namely leading the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania. Meuser said he spoke […]
Bethany Beached: Day 36!
BREAKING BHL NEWS: There is none. I looked. I scoured. But not my kitchen. We’ll fill the gap with bon mots from the bethanyforde site. Her last two–tweets? I was excited to join Delaware State University today at their Homecoming Parade! Our HBCU has been a pillar of strength, education and empowerment in Delaware for generations. […]
Song of the Day 10/23: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, “A Nightmare on My Street”
Will Smith’s spoof of the Freddy Krueger movies fits the Halloween season, but he’s living a more substantial nightmare these days, what with all the publicity his apparently estranged wife is getting for her tell-all memoir. Stay out of the basement, Will, it’s full of dirty laundry. “A Nightmare on My Street” was the second […]
Bethany Beached: Day 35!
It has been 35 days since John Carney hastily canceled his Bethany Hall-Long fundraiser, which happened mere days after he had hastily endorsed her. With any luck, we won’t hear from him again until his annual State Of The State address. Whether BHL will be on the podium as Lieutenant Governor is at best a […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 23, 2023
Anyone who’s raised children recognizes Donald Trump as an overgrown toddler. The lies he tells are the sort of incompetent falsehoods even small children outgrow. After his attorney Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to election mopery, Trump claimed – and apparently expects people to believe – “Ms. Powell was not my attorney, and never was.” I […]
Song of the Day 10/22: Jimmy Cliff, “Trapped”
For Gaza. Jimmy Cliff released this song as a single in 1972, the same year he starred in “The Harder They Come,” the movie and soundtrack that made Jamaican music mainstream, but it got surprisingly little attention at the time. Produced by Cat Stevens, whose “Wild World” was a big hit for Cliff in the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 22,2023
Pharoah And DeSantis: Separated At Birth? What do they have in common?–plagues. Hurricanes, floods, seaweed encrusted beaches, pythons who like to feast on elderly Palm Beach matrons, collapsing buildings, epidemics. And now, flesh-eating bacteria: A study published this week found that Hurricane Ian led to a spike in cases of vibriosis, a life-threatening illness caused […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 21, 2023
FINALLY, Aid Trucks Make Their Way Into Gaza. Not nearly enough, though…: A convoy of 20 trucks carrying aid moved through the Rafah border crossing into Gaza from Egypt on Saturday, according to the United Nations, after days of diplomatic wrangling to get food, water and medicine into the blockaded enclave where supplies were running […]
Song of the Day 10/20: Tom Jones and the Cardigans, “Burning Down the House”
I thought Jan. 6, 2021, made clear what the MAGA Republicans wanted to do to Congress, so the current House fire is no great surprise. I blame voters for handing them the matches. The Talking Heads’ funkiest tune, inspired by a Parliament/Funkadelic concert, became their highest-charting U.S. single, No. 9 in 1983. But the song […]
BREAKING: Chesebro Cops Plea!
5 years probation; $5K restitution; truthful testimony in all relevant trials, video proffer to state, which he has completed; no communication with any other defendants. Looks like those criticizing DA Fani Willis’ decision to try all these defendants under state RICO laws were, to put it mildly, premature. Cheseboro’s is the first felony guilty plea […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 20, 2023
How Jim Jordan Broke The Mold And Broke The Rethuglican Caucus. Interesting analysis from Josh Marshall: The congressional party is controlled and run by the hard right minority variously called the Tea Party or Freedom Caucus. But they are a bit too hot for national public consumption. They also rely on the idea that their […]
Delaware Political Weekly: The (Truncated) Week Of October 16-19, 2023
1. Delaware R’s Get Their (First? Only?) Candidate For US Representative. Donyale Hall. They could have done much worse, which makes me think that they will do much worse: DOVER — Local veteran and businesswoman Donyale Hall announced Thursday her run for Delaware’s at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. An unsuccessful candidate for […]
House Rethug Shit-Show Takes Another Dump In The Lumpen Form Of Patrick McHenry
The R’s apparently excreted the McHenry boomlet while secreted in the House bowels. The inside poop: House Republicans are abandoning a push to empower a temporary speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry, after it faced fierce pushback within the party on Thursday. As they left a nearly four-hour internal meeting about the idea, multiple Republicans said there […]
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