Tag: Carney

Kudos to Senator Carper, for once.

Filed in Delaware, International, National by on March 3, 2015 29 Comments
Kudos to Senator Carper, for once.

Today a foreign leader will interfere in the political affairs of the United States, and Senator Tom Carper has decided that he will not be part of it, thank you very much.

Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware will join about 40 Democrats in boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech to Congress on Tuesday. Carper called the timing of Netanyahu’s speech “wholly inappropriate,” given that the prime minister is up for re-election in two weeks. He and the other Democrats say House Speaker John Boehner broke protocol by inviting Netanyahu without consulting with the White House.

“I cannot imagine an occasion when a U.S. president would invite a foreign leader — even one from some of our closest allies like France, Germany or Canada — to address Congress on the eve of elections in his or her home country,” Carper said in a statement. “Furthermore, this visit came together by completely bypassing President Obama and his administration, which breaks our country’s protocol for visiting heads of state and stands to weaken U.S.-Israel relations.”

I was afraid the good Senator was just going to leave his list of reasons at that, and granted, they are good reasons. But the truest reason to be angry about that bastard Netanyahu’s speech has everything to do with the fact that he wants to scuttle any possible deal with Iran and he wants the United States to send more of our American children to die in defense of Israel in an invasion of Iran. And to his credit, Carper says that such direct interference into the foreign policy of the United States is one of his reasons.

What about Carney and Coons?

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Can Our Super Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Help Avoid Perpetual Sequestration?

Filed in Delaware by on August 26, 2013 5 Comments
Can Our Super Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Help Avoid Perpetual Sequestration?

Well it looks like perpetual sequestration is shaping up to be the teabag Congress’s new “most important thing EVER!”

Now that de-funding Obamacare and destroying the credit worthiness of the United States have faded as the most important things EVER!, continuing to hobble the economy through austerity and perpetual sequestration is the thing that is going to give Boehner his Boner back. (If the Democrats go along with it.)

And let’s face it – they will.

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Response to Andy Sere(al) Liar

Filed in National by on October 17, 2009 5 Comments

I always knew that DL’s stuff was read by the Underground Wingnuts of the Rethuglican Party. However, it was not until Andy Sere of the RNC tried to twist my ‘completely objective and non-partisan’ look at the group of GOP would-be challengers into a diss of John Carney that I realized that (a) official GOP […]

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My Take On the Carney vs. Fill-In-the-Blank Congressional Race

Filed in National by on October 13, 2009 7 Comments

Yesterday, the News-Journal’s Ginger Gibson wrote that the upcoming race to fill Metamucil Mike’s Oxford loafers would “guarantee(s) the  first real contest in decades” for Delaware’s lone and lonely congressional seat. University of Delaware political science professor Joe Pika, who really should know better, said: “It’s likely to be a true campaign for the first […]

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Carney’s Fundraising Garners ‘Pleasant Surprise’ Nod from DKos

Filed in Delaware by on July 19, 2009 12 Comments

Steve Singiser’s Daily Kos featured blog on candidate fundraising gives props to John Carney’s efforts for the quarter ending June 3o: 4. John Carney (Democrat/DE-AL)–$262K Raised, $235K On Hand  Carney is potentially a challenger to longtime Republican incumbent Mike Castle. Carney more than doubled Castle’s modest ($125K) take, leading many to now speculate that Castle […]

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