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Ask Dr. Liberal: Coons is in the Club Edition

Dear Doctor Liberal,

Do you think Chris Coons has the guts to really go after Castle? I view Castle as the incumbent in this race and they say to beat an incumbent you need to make the race a referendum on the person. Can Coons do that?

Sparky

liberalgeek | February 8th, 2010 | 2 comments | Continued

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The Running of the Hypocrites

Which is really the only name you can give the Federal government’s budget season opened by the release of President Obama’s budget blueprint last Tuesday. The plan calls for letting the BushCo tax cuts expire (except for people making less than $250K), eliminating the tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry, raising taxes on hedge fund managers; and it calls for investments in public education and college, domestic energy production, the beginning of a fund to finance health care for the uninsured. It is a pretty strong plan (I do have some reservations about some of the energy initiatives) that begins to retilt the playing field back towards the middle class.

cassandra_m | February 8th, 2010 | 2 comments | Continued

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Misogyny Bowl 2010

Sometimes the best part of the Superbowl is the commercials. Advertisers go out of their way to feature their funniest and cleverest commercials during the year’s most-watched football game. This year, a theme emerged from the commercials: how much women suck.
Example #1: FloTV ad

Example #2: Dove for Men ad

Women are roughly about 50% [...]

Unstable Isotope | February 8th, 2010 | 18 comments | Continued

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SNOWGASM DAY 2

Well the former thread is getting filled with comments and is getting buried, so here is a fresh thread. In this and I am sure newer threads, please post your anecdotes and pictures of the END OF THE WORLD, er ah, I mean the Blizzard of 2010.

Delaware Dem | February 6th, 2010 | 123 comments | Continued

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Kos on Coons-Castle Race

Castle starts of this race as the favorite, but it’s a long 10 months before election day, and in politics, that’s an eternity. If Castle continues to vote lockstep with the obstructionist Republicans, Coons benefits. If Castle tries to be that “independent voice” he claims he is, he’ll raise the ire of the teabaggers and potentially fuel a real primary challenger.

Delaware Dem | February 5th, 2010 | 6 comments | Continued

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Answering Their Questions in Bullet Time

Jon Stewart comments on last Friday’s Question Time:

8Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 0 comments | Continued
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Breaking: NJ Fire in Progress/ Fire Over!

This comes to us via an anonymous tip, and seems to be confirmed on Twitter.
Not sure yet of any details, except it looks like people have left the building.
Picture of fire truck at the building.
Picture of ladder on the roof.
Hoping everyone is OK. Updates as we get them.
Well that was fast — [...]

8Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
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Ask Dr. Liberal: Coons is in the Club Edition

Dear Doctor Liberal,

Do you think Chris Coons has the guts to really go after Castle? I view Castle as the incumbent in this race and they say to beat an incumbent you need to make the race a referendum on the person. Can Coons do that?

Sparky

8Feb2010 | liberalgeek | 2 comments | Continued
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The Running of the Hypocrites

Which is really the only name you can give the Federal government’s budget season opened by the release of President Obama’s budget blueprint last Tuesday. The plan calls for letting the BushCo tax cuts expire (except for people making less than $250K), eliminating the tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry, raising taxes on hedge fund managers; and it calls for investments in public education and college, domestic energy production, the beginning of a fund to finance health care for the uninsured. It is a pretty strong plan (I do have some reservations about some of the energy initiatives) that begins to retilt the playing field back towards the middle class.

8Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
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Monday Open Thread

It’s post Snowgasm Monday. How many of you are at work? I had to brave the roads today. Well, let’s open this thread. What’s on your mind?
Will NY governor David Paterson be Spitzered? The hot rumor out there is that the New York Times has a very damaging story about [...]

8Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
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When The Punishment Doesn’t Fit The Crime, Or… It’s The Over-Reaction, Stupid

Doodling on a school desk is wrong.  Hauling a 12 year old girl out of school in handcuffs for doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker is worse.

Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 [...]

8Feb2010 | pandora | 4 comments | Continued
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Misogyny Bowl 2010

Sometimes the best part of the Superbowl is the commercials. Advertisers go out of their way to feature their funniest and cleverest commercials during the year’s most-watched football game. This year, a theme emerged from the commercials: how much women suck.
Example #1: FloTV ad

Example #2: Dove for Men ad

Women are roughly about 50% [...]

8Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
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Obama To Hold Televised Health Care Summit

I think the Obama administration has learned an important lesson from the success of question time – Obama is the best salesman of Democratic ideas. We can’t rely on the news media to inform people anymore and question time allowed him to bypass the talking heads and talk straight to the American people. [...]

8Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
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Super Bowl Snack Stadium and Pre-Game Thread

As always, the spectacle surrounding the Super Bowl is often way more fun than the event itself and in that spirit, I give you:

The Super Bowl Snack Stadium

7Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 5 comments | Continued
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Palin Bows Before Rush

Sometimes, every once in a while, Sarah Palin will do something that I agree with. Usually it has to do with defending her family. I thought she was right to defend her daughter after Letterman’s failed joke. I also thought she was right to criticize Rahm Emmanuel for calling liberal “retarded.” [...]

7Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued
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Did Sarah Palin Write Crib Notes On Her Hand?

This seems almost too funny to be true.
Via kos:

AP photo showing words written on her palm.

Zoomed in shot of Palin’s hand – Energy, Budget Cut Tax, Lift America Spirit?
Someone please tell me this was photo-shopped.  But given this video, shot during question and answer time, it would appear not.
She’s so smoooth.  Funny and scary at [...]

7Feb2010 | pandora | 16 comments | Continued
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Governor Markell Surveys the Political Landscape on CBS News

…and pretty much owns this interviewer. He talks about the Coons-Castle race at about the 5 minute mark and says nice things. The Gov is quite good at this kind of thing, I think — he needs a better questioner than this reporter tho. If you hang until the end, there is [...]

6Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
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This. Is. Awesome.

The Great DC Snowball Fight at DuPont Circle. Damn, I wish I was there. We did this on the Ellipse back when I was a student at GW. Click through for the video.

6Feb2010 | Delaware Dem | 2 comments | Continued
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Weekend Open Thread

This is a trapped-inside-the-house-please-halp version of your weekend open thread. Anything else going on besides snow and snow removal?
The 10 strangest pieces of unclaimed luggage:
1. Hoggle from Labyrinth. Unlike other items at the Unclaimed Baggage Center, Hoggle is not for sale. He is now a permanent part of the Unclaimed Baggage Center Museum. If [...]

6Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
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Picture of the Day

6Feb2010 | Delaware Dem | 7 comments | Continued
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Who lost the jobs?

Bush did.

6Feb2010 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
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SNOWGASM: Day After Tomorrow Movie Comes to Life

Look at these updated snowfall predictions from the National Weather Service:

We will be approaching 30 inches here in New Castle County. Complete Apocalypse.

6Feb2010 | Delaware Dem | 37 comments | Continued
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Things Are Tough All Over

Michael Steele and Harold Ford have a tour where they go around debating each other (don’t ask me why). During one of these appearances Michael Steele reflected on the plight of the common man:
The two often traded jokes, especially when Steele panned President Barack Obama’s long-stated plan to let income tax rates return to [...]

6Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 2 comments | Continued
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SNOWGASM DAY 2

Well the former thread is getting filled with comments and is getting buried, so here is a fresh thread. In this and I am sure newer threads, please post your anecdotes and pictures of the END OF THE WORLD, er ah, I mean the Blizzard of 2010.

6Feb2010 | Delaware Dem | 123 comments | Continued
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Kos on Coons-Castle Race

Castle starts of this race as the favorite, but it’s a long 10 months before election day, and in politics, that’s an eternity. If Castle continues to vote lockstep with the obstructionist Republicans, Coons benefits. If Castle tries to be that “independent voice” he claims he is, he’ll raise the ire of the teabaggers and potentially fuel a real primary challenger.

5Feb2010 | Delaware Dem | 6 comments | Continued
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Tea Party Racism

Former Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Tom Tancredo opened the Tea Party Nation convention. In his speech he said the U.S. had elected a “committed socialist ideologue” because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”

5Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 16 comments | Continued
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Pre-Snowgasm Open Thread

Well, it’s Friday and we’re all watching the skies waiting for the snow to start. I’m ready to dash out of here the minutes I start seeing snow flakes. I hope you all have bought your bread, milk and eggs so that you can make French toast during the storm – apparently that’s really important. So let’s open this thread.

5Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
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USC Recruits 7th Grader

Via Gather:
David Sills, a seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear, Delaware has got a great arm and seems to know the game of football. Even his quarterback coach thinks he’s got big talent, but being recruited at the age of 13 seems a bit overkill.
Lane Kiffin, the new coach at USC  has offered [...]

5Feb2010 | pandora | 6 comments | Continued
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I Didn’t Elect President Shelby

WTF!?!? Is Senator Richard Shelby out to prove that the Senate is completely dysfunctional and that Republicans are full of sh*t? Sen. Shelby has placed a blanket hold on ALL of Obama’s nominations:
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has put an extraordinary “blanket hold” on at least 70 nominations President Obama has sent to the [...]

5Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 44 comments | Continued
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Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.7%

The number of employed Americans has risen by 541,000 since the last Jobs report, while an additional 20,000 jobs have been lost. The jobs report from November has been revised up to show a gain of 64,000 jobs. But the news is not all good, as the continued revisions to [...]

5Feb2010 | Delaware Dem | 13 comments | Continued