Archive for October 23rd, 2009

Late Night Video: Public Option Singers

Filed in National by on October 23, 2009 3 Comments

Via Americablog, the Billionaires For Wealthcare interrupt a meeting of insurance industry lobbyists with a song:

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More On That GOP Death Spiral

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More On That GOP Death Spiral

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Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Bacon Cake!

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Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Bacon Cake!

Bacon Slab Cake, that is. Just when you think this bacon thing can’t get any weirder, her comes someone to actually make a cake that looks like it:

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Happy Birthday, Mike Protack

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Happy Birthday, Mike Protack

Even though Mike puts the wing in wingnut and his comments sometimes border on spam, we at Delaware Liberal sincerely wish Mike a happy birthday. Here is Todd Snider’s Conservative Christian to help celebrate Mike’s birthday.

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Friday Open Thread

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It’s Friday and it’s open thread time. That means your Friday is already halfway over! It’s also National Mole Day, a celebration of Avogadro’s number, 6.02 x 10^23 (the number of atoms in a mole). It’s celebrated from 6:02 AM to 6:02 PM on 10/23 every year. This link gives you some tips on how […]

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News-Journal: Fisker to Build Hybrid Cars at Boxwood Plant

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Andrew Eder, who has been all over this story, reports the good news. And, lest anyone think that Jack Markell just got lucky, here is what a governor who was actively engaged did: The company’s decision to use the Boxwood Road factory marks a quick resurrection for the 62-year-old plant, a casualty of GM’s bankruptcy […]

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Mike Castle, He’s Talking About You

Filed in Delaware, National by on October 23, 2009 18 Comments

Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY9) has been a real hero in the fight for health care reform. He has released a study that shows 151 current members of Congress receive Medicare, the dreaded government-run health care system, including 55 Republicans. All of these Republicans are opponents of the public option. Here is the list: Rep. Ralph […]

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Alan Grayson Wants to Know if a Republican Really Knows His Constitution

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It is so much fun watching this guy — he is remarkably good at turning the wingnut rhetoric back at them with devastating results. This time he quizzes one of his cohorts Rep. Broun from GA on the law and the Constitution and makes it pretty clear that for all of their talk, walking the walk is still not a GOP goal:

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No War For Oil

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Uh, what? I thought we were spreading freedom and democracy. Wait a minute… et in remarks to Congress yesterday, Pickens revealed that he is just as interested as ever in tying our national security to oil interests in the Middle East, suggesting that American oil companies are “entitled” to Iraq’s oil because we spent blood […]

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Palin vs Gingrich

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The lines have been drawn.  And didn’t we all know it would come to this?  NY-23 is the election to watch. In one corner we have Sarah Palin who has chosen to endorse Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald […]

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