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The taxpayer was walking down the street. In pulling a phone out of his pocket, a dime fell to the sidewalk and rolled to the curb. Someone, a tired person, sat on it and drank wine out of a bottle in a paper bag…….
I bet you thought this was going to be a posting of deep insight, didn’t you?
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
The following as of this time, are Republicans running in the state of Delaware who have not repudiated Trump publicly….. It is their right not to do so, but even more, it our right to completely dismiss them and vote for their opponent because they lack moral character. We have enough losers in the Democratic Party. We certainly don’t need any more from the Republican….
(This will be ongoing. Red denotes those who remained silent. Green those whose morals impel them to speak out… )
Charlie Copeland: Chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party
Greg Lavelle: Official Republican Flunkee
Colin Bonini: Republican Governor
Jeff Craig: Republican Insurance Commissioner
George Parrish:Republican Insurance Commissioner
Morgan Hudson: State Rep District 33
Charles Postles: State Rep District 33
Robert Scott: State Rep District 33
Robert Mitchell: State Rep District 35
Dave Wilson: State Rep District 35
Mark Blake: Republicans for County Executive
Ciro Adams: Wilmington City Council at Large
Benjamin Cohen: Wilmington City Council at Large
Richard Dyton: Wilmington City Council at Large
Robert Keesler: Wilmington City Council at Large
Gregory Luna: Wilmington City Council at Large
Lisa Hudson Briggs: Sussex County Council District 2
Samuel Wilson, Jr: Sussex County Council District 2
Kevin Burdette: Sussex County Council District 3
Irwin Burton, III: Sussex County Council District 3
Mark Schaeffer, Sussex County Council District 3
Frank Shade, Sussex County Council District 3
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Most of the above are locked in a primary battle whose dust will settle after September 13….
The below are Republicans not being primaried who have remained silent and by being silent, thereby support their parties nominee.
Special hats off to Meredith Chapman of the Senate Dist. 8th for being THE FIRST to repudiate Trump.
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Hans Reigle: Rep in Congress
La Mar Gunn: Lt. Governor
James Spadola: State Sen District 1
Catherine Clouthier: State Sen District 5
Anthony DeCollo: State Sen District 7
Meredith Chapman: State Sen District 8
Carl Pace: State Sen District 14
David Lawson: State Sen District 15
Brian Pettyjohn: State Sen District 19
Gerald Hocker: State Sen District 20
Lee Murphy: State Rep District 6
Kevin Hensley:State Rep District 9
Judy Travis: State Rep District 10
Jeff Speigleman: State Rep District 11
Debbie Hudson: State Rep District 12
James Louis Demartinio: State Rep District 14
James Startzman: State Rep District 19
Stephan Smyk: State Rep District 20
Mike Ramone: State Rep District 21
Joesph Miro: State Rep District 22
Tim Conrad: State Rep District 24
Janice Gallagher: State Rep District 29
William Outten: State Rep District 30
Jean Dowding: State Rep District 31
Patricia Foltz: State Rep District 32
Lyndon Yearick: State Rep District 34
Harvey Kenton: State Rep District 36
Ruth Briggs King: State Rep District 37
Ronald Gray: State Rep District 38
Dan Short: State Rep District 39
Timothy Dukes: State Rep District 40
Richard Collings: State Rep 41
Michael Vincent: Sussex County Council 1
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If you are NOT against him. then you are FOR him. (Please keep me updated if you see any of these publicly withdraw from supporting the head of their ticket…. )
One would have thought they would have put country first over party, a long time ago….But as goes the chairman, so goes the party. If one looks over the past decade, the current state chairman is the best friend BLUE democrats have ever had….
It is rather interesting that in our spirited Republican campaign we get very little substance. Despite the discussion that Fox would outdo CNBC, most of what was asked of candidates simply didn’t concern me… I speak for the silent America.
Here is what should be asked. There is not a right or wrong answer yet. They haven’t yet been tried. But our nation is facing some consequential changes and many of us would like to know what our potential leaders would do to face them.
Granted there are both Republican and Democratic responses to these questions. But America is being denied any discussion upon them… and has its attention diverted to personalities I think, for the sole purpose to keep these burning questions buried, hidden, and never shown the light of day….
- How would you fix education in America. What is your plan and how long do you think it will take before it begins to work?
- Why are all the benefits of our work going to a few people?
- How do we restore democracy?
- How do we return jobs to America from overseas without cutting wages to levels seen in countries like the Philippines or China?
- How do we stop global warming?
- Businesses hire when demand increases, How do we increase demand?
- What is government’s role in a democracy when it comes to markets?
- How do we reduce our prison population?
- Who are the largest donors to your campaign and what do they want in return?
- How do we prevent gerrymandering?
- Estimates for peak oil range from its already happened to at the very latest 2060. What is your plan to deal with the end of oil?
- Black people are 4 times more likely to be killed in police custody than white. What do we as a country need to be doing about this?
- How do we return the middle class?
- How do we create a better Internet?
- Why are we outsourcing public schools?
- What do we do about “too big to fail” banks?
- How do we get the influence of big money out of our elections?
- Big or little. What is the perfect size for government in a dollar figure. How big should it be in $$$$?
There may be more questions that are pertinent. These are a start… Now as Delawareans there is little you can do to affect the national outcome… But just take these questions to our state races and begin asking them there. Ask our future governor; ask our future Senator, ask our future Congressperson. Print and take this along. If someone else asks a question you were intending, just switch and ask another off this list..
And because you held your representative accountable, we then begin to get the government we deserve.
One parting shot.
In past elections, question like this were asked by our media all the time. They are purposefully or extremely negligent not to ask them now.
We are opting out of state mandated tests.
We are served up a spectacle of Presidential debaters living in bubbles saying nothing of substance.
Our media ignores the one person who is mouthing things of substance; basically the problems 99% of us face in balancing our paycheck against our expenses…. One is too low, the other is too high… They should be reversed.
Our Arctic Ice Cap is dangerously low, our entire global climate is reeling.
A seven billion person planet freaks out and cannot handle a meager 1 million refugees from just 0.3% of its land mass.
The globe has never been richer…. EVER…. yet 99% of its people live in poverty.
Our own children are pawns in a grand scheme to eliminate public education and fix it so investors get rich off it.
Our corporate media simply doesn’t tell the truth anymore. One has to turn to comedians to get real information.
A raspy brash loudmouth Jew with crazy hair calls out an Evangelist University of higher learning for not following the very laws laid down by Jesus Christ. An act very similar to that of another Jew a little under 2000 years ago who also challenged the religious authorities of HIS time.
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That was today. Meanwhile almost 50 million of our country lives in poverty, often while working too jobs… and everyone shrugs and thinks that’s ok. The only thing worth discussing is Planned Parenthood and punishing Iran.
Is this really America then? Are we no longer the land of opportunity emblazoned on the Statue of Liberty’s bottom?
Something has got to give, right?
It starts with you…. when you get mad enough to do something… that’s when it changes…
You can… if you think about it…. start by going to Dover … 12:30 pm…. to protest the Smarter Balanced Assessment. Because it is all connected… it is all about big money doing what it wants over your objections… It’s all about getting you out of their way….
You know it is bad when you are tracking on the bottom of the standard deviation…. Every single year…
Like a strained marriage there comes a time, a moment, when there is no going back… Earth files for a divorce. You don’t know when its coming. But every day it doesn’t come kinda rewards continued bad behavior, until one day… Boom, it’s over and all the consequences you thought would never happen to you, dump very quickly.
You discover your bright future is over. and it’s time to pay. Boy, do you pay…
Here is a list of companies headquartered in Indiana.... Look over it (takes less than 90 seconds) and see which ones would affect you at all and then proceed to go into “boycott” mode and post something on their social media about your boycott…..
Simple, quick, effective.
For me, it came down to Delta Faucets, Three Floyds and Upland Brewing Companies, and hhgregg.
I tweeted “I’m boycotting everything Indiana” and hit @ and then typed the companies twitter accounts….
Simple, quick, effective….
And now, I have to stay away from those companies products on my Delawarean shelves…. No real suffering since Indiana has so few companies of note within it’s borders… That was a surprise. But seeing the type of company Indianans keep inside their borders: hateful religious bigots, I guess it is no wonder nobody wants to live in Indiana.
Last Monday, i bought gas for $1.85… Today, that same place sold it to me at $2.15….. Holy Crappo!… I’m paying 20 cents more for gas than I did a week ago….
People were still driving.
No one was declaring bankruptcy.
No one lost their home.
No one took public transportation.
All the doomsday scenarios put forth by Ms. Longhurst when she adamantly refused to put a bill on the floor that would save Delawareans $1000 a year in wear in tear on each of their vehicles by keeping our roads free of potholes for just half, half, half, only half of what just occurred at the pump in Delaware last week…
For just half of that jump that didn’t end the world. Delawareans could be fixing roads. putting people to work, and saving big, big bucks by years end off of the non-existent wear and tear of their car… And still be saving $1.50 per gallon over what was being paid less than 6 months ago….
So instead of fixing our roads and saving $1.50 per gallon, we are paying the exact same amount we would have anyways, with oil companies keeping that ten cents instead of it going our highway system…
Sometimes people do stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid things… And when they do, they should get called out on it (ideally it keeps others from doing the same stupid thing next time)…. And not passing a measly 10 cent gas tax last session was as stupid as stupid comes….
Can we get it done now, please? Or is the world going to end tomorrow?
I really didn’t know that much about them. So I looked them up.
Did you know that one has to go back as far as James Garfield to find a Commander in Chief who has used less vetoes? (And he was in office only 6 and half months).
Did you know that Barack Obama, our commander in chief, has to veto up to 633 vetoes these next two years before he ties the record of the most by any one president (FDR: 3 and a half terms)? Does that not put a damper on any argument of over-reaching his authority?
Can you name all the presidents who have the same or fewer vetoes than our current commander in chief? I’ll try.
- James Garfield (6 months as President)
- Milliard Fillmore (2.8 years as President)
- Zachery Taylor (1.3 years as President)
- William Harrison (32 days as President)
- Thomas Jefferson (2 terms)
- John Adams (1 terms)
All with zero. He is tied with George Washington, at two.
Now can you name the top ten presidential veto-ers? Again, I’ll try.
- Franklin D Roosevelt 635
- Grover Cleveland 584
- Harry Truman 250
- Dwight Eisenhower 181
- Ulysses Grant 93
- Theodore Roosevelt 82
- Ronald Reagan 78
- Gerald Ford 66
- Calvin Coolidge 50
- Woodrow Wilson 44 (tie)
- Benjamin Harrison 44 (tie)
- George H.W. Bush 44 (tie)
And just out of curiosity. Know who had the most vetoes overridden? The first guy who got impeached: Andrew Johnson with 15.
It is quite clear that a veto is just another tool put at the president’s disposal.. If the president is provided the opportunity to weld it, one must, both out of Constitutional necessity and a considerable amount of precedence. And if today’s Republicans are thinking of black-balling our president with excessive vetoes, they should think again. It also appears that vetoing insane pieces of legislation will provide zero negative fall-out, either politically or against ones legacy.
Most Republicans smoked dope in high school. Some libertarians did also. Democrats, maybe, but not so much. Therefore in America at least 47% of the voting public in General Election years, and 51% of the voting public in off-years, is ignorant about American History… The important stuff.
America was founded on freedom, and whenever that fails to work well, our law making bodies add a regulation… Regulations like everything else can be bad or good, but for the most part, the regulations we do have all had to be voted into being by a widely diverse group of people, and therefore there is probably some good reason we have them.
With Dodd-Frank, the reason is obvious. But Republicans seem to have forgotten both crash deregulation brought on, and their catastrophic loss of both chambers of Congress and the Presidency because of it.
Dodd-Frank simply puts a limit on gambling… No, you can’t bet your domicile at Delaware Park. No, you can’t sell your car there and bet it on roulette. No you can’t put your kids into prostitution to feed your gambling habit.
We have to regulate things like that. Otherwise if we don’t and someone does them, they can keep doing them without a law to stop them.
That is why the idiocy of cutting regulations is just that idiocy.. Perhaps I can grant that with Google now, we can search and find perhaps one or two regulations that would benefit society if we removed them. But they certainly would not be in Dodd Frank.
Those are there to prevent what happened in 2008 from happening again… That’s impossible you say… It was 80 years between both Great Depressions… That is a lifetime… Nothing happened in between!
Exactly,! Because laws like Dodd-Frank were held in place which limited the amount of our money one could gamble. Two bills repealed that oversight and bam, in 2008 we were in crises.
- In early America there was a major panic or recession every 2 years. 1795 – 1833.
- From then up to the Great Depression, we averaged a major recession or panic every two years.
- Since the great Depression we have registered recessions on the average one recession every 5 years.
And now, we want to return to the instability of those years prior to the Great Depression of 1932?
Some regulation are on the books for a reason… such as regulating derivatives. While derivatives were regulated, gas stayed at 99 cents a gallon for 8 years… Remember that? And just as soon as we deregulated Derivatives, it climbed all the way to $4.25 a gallon before the collapsing market dropped the price down to real market, which we shockingly discovered was just $1.70 a gallon. The Dodd-Frank regulation on derivatives has returned us again to low prices (faster due to help from our Sultanic friends in the Gulf),
And as soon as it gets removed, the hedge funds buy it low…. wait and sell it high…
We played this game before: the year 2000, the end of Clinton’s term. The spending bill passed in September were held up through December in conference committee by Sen. Phil Gramm. The Omnibus funding bill that year, had a rider that deregulated all derivatives from government oversight. Over those 4 months leading up to passage, parts of the government had been officially unfunded. Government employees wondered if they could even spend for Christmas. Finally on the very last day of that Congress. by a voice vote only seconds before adjournment, all conference committee (Phil Gramm) changes were approved and the bill got sent to Clinton.
Unfortunately he signed it… and we paid those hedge fund investors a lot more than we should have been paying for our gasoline. Up to $2.50 on every single gallon! We also sold bad mortgages as derivatives, world-wide… and when those mortgages failed (as we knew they had to), the world economy collapsed.
We should not make the same mistake again. We really cannot afford that same mistake again. With hindsight, a new democratic Congress would have been sworn, and could rectify that before Clinton left office… But tired and in the last waning days of his presidency, one cannot blame him for not doing so. Who wants to end with a pie-fight?
And I’m sure it seemed like a good idea … up to 8 years later. But is was wrong. It was dumb, and we paid dearly for it. How we paid dearly for it…
Veto the changes, and then see if they can find 70 Senators willing to go on public record while all America is watching and screw over the American people.
Removing good regulation will be our downfall.. Don’t let that happen.
kavips 
