Archive for July, 2009

Late Night Video: Journalists Shouldn’t Try Comedy

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Who thought this was a good idea? Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post do “Mouthpiece Theater” on the so-called beer summit. They had some suggestions for beer choices, including a beer called Mad Bitch for Hillary Clinton. The video has now been removed from their website, after complaints. Of course, it lives […]

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Around the Horn

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Around the Horn

The Special Election in the 19th continues to occupy our collective time. But we here at Delaware Liberal have taken on the supposedly nonpartisan Caesar Rodney Institute in a spectacular series of posts by the Beast Who Slumbers, Cassandra and Donviti. All that and more……

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UPDATED: Charlie Claims That He Does Not Know (which of 3500 living descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont) is Propping Up CRI

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UPDATED:  Charlie Claims That He Does Not Know (which of 3500 living descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont)   is Propping Up CRI

Cuteness abounds.   […] Cute right?  It sure would be nice to have your very own think tank.  Tee hee…To which I replied… Here Charlie keeps up the cute front, but starts to betray a bit of testiness. My reply…

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Anti-Cap & Trade Lobbying Group Sends Fake Opposition Letters

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I’m sure you’re shocked to hear that a group lobbying against the ACES (American Clean Energy & Security Act) cap & trade legislation, sent forged letters to a U.S. Congressman. As U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello was considering how to vote on an important piece of climate change legislation in June, the freshman congressman’s office received […]

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How teh stupid act when they think they are smart

Filed in Delaware by on July 31, 2009 13 Comments

So, by now you have read the 4 part piece we have done on “Copeland’s Republican Insiders” AKA the Caesar Rodney Institute.  It might be at 5 by now, but for now, it is 4. If you haven’t then you don’t know what you are missing. Cass wrote up a high level linkage piece that […]

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You Can See The Problem Here

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You Can See The Problem Here

A new poll finds that Republicans differ significantly from the Democrats and Independents on the question of whether Obama was born in the U.S.

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Why Isn’t This Called Bribery?

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Via WaPo: The roiling debate about health-care reform has been a boon to the political fortunes of Ross and 51 other members of the Blue Dog Coalition, who have become key brokers in shaping legislation in the House. Objections from the group resulted in a compromise bill announced this week that includes higher payments for […]

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Delaware Liberal Action Item: 20 Calls To Tom Carper Today – On your mark, get set, go!

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Rebecca is right. We need to test Carper on his statement that “the lobbyists he listens to are the people from Delaware.” Our goal is a modest 20 calls by 5:00pm today. Log your call in the comments and an check back this afternoon. (We might have to call people to get them to call […]

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Donviti Gets Copeland On the Record

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Donviti Gets Copeland On the Record

Nice work DV.    Here is the screen capture from “resolutedetermination” in case Charlie changes his mind  […]

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Sussex County Drinking Liberally Was A Blast

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I had a great time last night.  It’s always fun putting faces with names, and the “birth certificates” are laugh out loud funny.  Our very own Cassandra and Unstable Isotope made the trip down – on a school night! – along with Free Radical.  MJ picked the perfect location (thanks again, MJ!) and handed out […]

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‘Bulo’s Desperate Offer to Copeland: Will Unmask for Transparency

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  Image courtesy of www.sonambulo.com (Various & Sundry Disclaimers: This likeness may or may not resemble that of El Somnambulo. Rafael Navarro and El Somnambulo may or may not be the same person. The gun featured here should in no way be misconstrued as a threat, but rather as a peace offering to Caesar Rodney […]

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Bud Light?

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Fox News is mad because President Obama picked a beer brewed by a Belgian company. (I wish I were lying). I’m mad at the President because he picked the second shittiest beer ever. (The shittiest being Bud Light with Lime)

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It’s almost vacation time!!

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I remember in August of 2001 when our newly elected Supreme Court picked POTUS was about to take his first of many, many, many vacations in August. It just so happened this vacation happened on Clinton’s watch though and he still get’s a pass for taking it. Crawford — a one-stoplight town of about 700 […]

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