Archive for February, 2009
RNC Talking Point Smackdown
Predictably, Dave Burris trots out the lame RNC talking points about Obama’s first month. (Spoiler Alter: Obama Wrecked the Stock Market!)
Tommywonk smacks down that weak stuff.
Note to Dave: ”I was talking about the Fed” is worth a try again. But on a deeper level, maybe you should think about the fact that RNC talking points are [...]
Chicken POT PIE!
DD just did a great job explaining why we fight from a strategic perspective. For me, and maybe others, there is also a personal element that explains why we need to stay on constant guard against right-wing greed and stupidity, and why when we do it might sound “shrill” to the uninformed.
To explain it so [...]
Why We are “Shrill.”
Some say that we here at Delaware Liberal need to be reminded that we won the election. For it seems that since the election, we have been nothing but “shrill” and angry, almost as if we lost.
Well, first, we didn’t win the election. Barack Obama and Joe Biden [...]
A Worrying Thought
I worry too much. I always have. In fact, I have wasted countless hours worrying. Now, granted, this behavior intensified when I had children. And if there was a contest for turning every sharp, hot, and moving object into a potential deathtrap I surely would have taken first place. Paddle fans and coffee table corners [...]
21Feb2009 | pandora | 105 comments | Continued
Brian Shields Weighs In.
A tip received from our friend Brian Shields:
I just weighed in, and I lost some weight. I put out a bet on the success of next week’s weight loss.
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All the details are in the post, along with the promise that if I don’t lose 5 pounds next week, I go shopping for Food Bank donations [...]
Now THIS Is A Populist Smackdown
And pointed at one of the FoxNoiseHeads too:
More like this, please!
Day 24: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
Okay folks this is going to take some work. You’re going to have to go out to your driveway and pick up your copy of The Community News. Then you need to read Rob Tornoe’s editorial cartoon. His rendition of Congressman Mike Castle is spot on.
Good job Mr. Tornoe, good job.
QOD
How awesome is it that we live in the state that in part created the credit mess we are in?
21Feb2009 | Donvictimiti | 2 comments | Continued
February 20th, 2009 at 10:58PM
That is the moment that Barack Obama disappointed me for the first time.
“They’ve now embraced the Bush policy that you can create prisons outside the law,” said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented several detainees.
Donviti is coming on with “Obama is a politician” in 3…2…1…
Late Nite Observation
Rush Limbaugh is once again fatter than Michael Moore.
h/t attaturk
20Feb2009 | jason330 | 4 comments | Continued
Breaking: Socks’ Final Request!
Bill and Socks shared many things together. One was their affinity for music. Socks was aware that he would soon head to that Litter Box in the Sky. Accordingly, he dic(k)tated that this song, a favorite of both Bill’s and his, and performed by those Austin anarchists, the Asylum Street Spankers, be played before he [...]
20Feb2009 | El Somnambulo | 2 comments | Continued
Tom Carper “Intolerable”
Carper is the second to worst Democrat in the Senate by voting record.
Ben Nelson of Nebraska is the worst, but he comes from a “Strong Republican” district.
There is a lot of data here. All of it condemns Tom Carper
This is a Smackdown
I do like Robert Gibbs. And does anyone else find it odd that Rick Santelli is declaring that that room full of Wall St. traders is America?
20Feb2009 | liberalgeek | 8 comments | Continued
Breaking: Clinton Sex Scandal Figure Dies
A Clinton-era figure accused by Republicans of pleasuring himself in public in the White House has died.
Historians remember that Rethugs took the fact that the individual at the center of the scandal never denied the charge to be further proof of the decadent nature of the Clinton Administration.
Inside the Meltdown
Got an hour . . . . actually you do, watch Frontline’s Inside the Meltdown, from Bear Stearns to the bailout.
20Feb2009 | nemski | 5 comments | Continued
Phew…
Snopes says…
I’m sure Mike Protack begs to differ.
20Feb2009 | jason330 | 3 comments | Continued
Deep WDEL Thought
They should have a show in which Gary Mullinax (sp?) just does dramatic readings of celebrity chat board messages.
That would be awesome!
Bank of America Swirling in Toilet
I’m glad I didn’t buy a bunch of shares when LiberalGeek told me that the Countrywide purchase was a good deal for BoA. .
Bonus Thought:
All the banks are already nationalized because they are backed up by the FDIC (our tax dollars). No FDIC = No more banks holding “bad assets.”
Under this system, we [...]
Day 23: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
Today we commemorate the 23rd day of Congressman Mike Castle’s betrayal of Delaware when he did not vote for the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. He even got a second chance in February, but failed to vote for the people of Delaware, instead he chose to vote for the wingnuts of Delaware.
So we [...]
Are Banks Making Money Off Unemployment Benefits?
If there’s a justification for the biggest welfare queens in history subsidizing their losses on the backs of people their incompetence and greed helped place in the unemployment line I’m not seeing it. Probably because it doesn’t exist!
First, Arthur Santa-Maria called Bank of America to ask how to check the balance of his new unemployment [...]
20Feb2009 | pandora | 15 comments | Continued
Around the Horn Friday
Another week, another Delaware Blogosphere “crisis.” This time, Mike Matthews proclaims boldly that he is done with Delaware Liberal because I guess we were too critical of him, or mean. Oh the irony. He’ll be back. We are like the mob. Just when you thought you were out, [...]
20Feb2009 | Delaware Dem | 25 comments | Continued
APRI Legislative Conference Update
APRI writes to let us know that the lunch speaker for this event is now scheduled to be John Carney.
We gave you the details about this conference here, and definitely hope that some of you can go. It is this Saturday, 21 February 2008, starting at 8AM at Ezion-Mt. Carmel Church, 800 N. Walnut [...]
QOD
What news do you not see here at the number one website for Delaware news and liberal opinion that you would like to?
20Feb2009 | Donvictimiti | 20 comments | Continued
A Wingnut Smack Down Sans Profanity
When you get smacked down by tommywonk you remain smacked down.
Of course, being stridently wrong about thing’s is Dave’s strong suit, so I am sure he will be unfazed by the fact that tom makes minced meat out of his GOP economic theory.
Here is a taste:
Am I missing something? Have the laws of economics (or [...]
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