Delaware Liberal

On this day in 1965 the first draft card was burned to protest the Viet Nam War. Somehow we still managed to win the Cold War. (..then lose it 50 years later by electing an agent of Russia to the presidency.

I just heard David Axlerod say something close to the above headline on CNN. It reveals a sickness in the bones of the dying Democratic Party. The strategic calculus of…

DOVER, Del. — Democratic Gov. John Carney says President Donald Trump’s decision to end federal cost-share subsidies under the Affordable Care Act will hurt thousands of low-income Delaware residents.

Poker is a skill game, so a bigger pool of "dead money" is not bad news for Delaware's professional online poker players. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Online poker fans…

Coons appears regularly on 'Morning Joe' and I just don't get why.  All he ever does is restate  whatever conventional wisdom the panel has already gathered around.  He puts on the aires of someone getting ready to say something important, which always gets me to lean in, and listen up. ... then nothing.   It is weird.  Consistent and weird.

When my esteemed co-counsel said this in the comments:

One more reason why the Democratic Party sucks. They WANT people with no (relevant) skills of their own as long as they are malleable Third Way types.

...I thought of Ken Simpler's Simple plan. The one for the state government to act as a kind of federal reserve bank, letting money out into the world to keep the economy from getting too cold or too hot. As Alby observed, that idea is DOA being illegal. However, what if the point wasn't the idea but the tone? What if Simpler is auditioning to be the next acceptable Republican? ...a GOP candidate acceptable to Tom Carper and Chris Coons?

When I lived in DC and people talked about "statehood" I'd always put in a plug for "provicehood." It seems my idea is catching on.