Archive for December, 2009

The Top Delaware Political Stories of 2009

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The News Journal is soliciting our ideas for the top Delaware political stories of 2009 on Twitter (@DialogueDelaware). Here is my top 10 list. Feel free to argue and add your own ideas! 10. Mike Castle announces plans to leave his U.S. House seat to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Joe Biden […]

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End Of 2009 Open Thread

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I can’t say that I’m sorry to see this year go away. The year started out with such promise, with a brand new president but ended up being the year of horrible recession, angry townhallers, celebrity deaths and celebrity/politician sex scandals. Here’s hoping that 2010 is better than 2009! This week we found out that […]

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The Year In Takedowns

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The Year In Takedowns

I stumbled across this post by the editors of Foreign Policy – “The year in takedowns.” Here’s their list: 10. Glenn Greenwald on Jeffrey Rosen’s profile of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in The New Republic. I love that one, it’s totally sweet! 9. Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic on airport security 8. Stephen Holmes […]

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The White House Smacks Dick Around

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The White House Smacks Dick Around

After Dick Cheney emerged from Potterville to chime in about the attempted terrorist attack on Flight 253, the White House responded on its blog. To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is focused on action. Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and […]

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Rachel Maddow Calls Out “Chatty Cathy” Cheney And The Parroting Press

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If you haven’t watched the video below, please do so.  Rachel Maddow, calmly and professionally, dismantles every bit of garbage spewing out of our former Vice President’s mouth.  And, isn’t it ironic that a man who spent the majority of the last eight years in an undisclosed location is now seeking the spotlight with a […]

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Late Night Video

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Fearmongering = $$$

Filed in Delaware, National by on December 30, 2009 3 Comments

Republicans have been jumping on the bandwagon to criticize President Obama because of the failed terror attack on Christmas Day. Some have been using the incident for fundraising, look at Rep. Pete Hoekstra (who is running for governor of Michigan): They just don’t get it. The system didn’t “work” here. Far from it! It is […]

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Wednesday Open Thread

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It’s Wednesday and it’s open thread time again! I know you’re probably going through withdrawal because we didn’t have one yesterday. Well, your wait is over! Dick Cheney is a dick: “As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are […]

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Party Before Country

Filed in National by on December 30, 2009 34 Comments

On Christmas Day, a flaming crotch bomber tried to take down a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit. Luckily for us, he was as incompetent as shoe bomber Richard Reid and failed thanks to the passengers and crew on the airplane. As I stated yesterday, I think this incident exposed some unclosed loopholes and weaknesses in […]

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Late Night Video

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The Great Big End of Year Polling Post

Filed in Delaware by on December 29, 2009 23 Comments

This has been a year of transition. We saw in 2009 the first non-white President take office, markets came crashing down, jobs lost, political parties realigning themselves and lots of people angry about either what they want their government to give them or what they don’t want from government. Blogs have sprung up and blogs have shut down and some have been reshuffled. An entire industry has departed Delaware, and new ones are showing some green shoots through the scarred landscape.

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Hypocrisy Alert!

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How did I miss this? Mr. Traditional Marriage, Karl Rove, gets divorced.  And… it isn’t his first one.  Oh, sweet hypocrisy!  So much for those traditional little clauses, such as:  “till death do us part” and “that which God has brought together, let no man put asunder.”

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Let Me Be The First To Say… This Will Fail

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Tucker Carlson is planning to start a blog to rival Huffington Post.  And, right away, he tells us what to expect. He said that he wants to emphasize original reporting. “We don’t simply want to be parasites of other news sites,” he said. “We want to be creators of news,” though he added, “We’re not […]

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