Archive for March 19th, 2010
Millionaire Michele Rollins Takes Bonus from Wilmington Trust TARP Funds
Michele Rollins was elected to the Wilmington Trust Board of Directors in 2007. During the market collapse in 2008, Wilmington Trust, like many other financial institutions, received a $330 million bailout from TARP. Unlike many other financial institutions, Wilmington Trust has as of yet failed to pay that money back. Instead, [...]
19Mar2010 | Delaware Dem | 45 comments | Continued
Barack-etology 2010
…or President Barack Obama explains his NCAA Bracket picks for you:
19Mar2010 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Friday Open Thread
w00t for Friday! How are your NCAA picks doing? I’ll bet none of you picked Murray State. You should know that teams connected to me do well. Pick Murray State (my parents’ alma mater), Kentucky (my home state), Wisconsin (my alma mater) and you’ll do well. I’ve won exactly 0 of [...]
19Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 24 comments | Continued
Teabaggers Fail Tax Quiz
Jot down your own answers before clicking the link.
1. How much does the federal government collect in taxes as a % of GDP?
2. How much does the typical family making $50,000 per year pay in federal taxes?
3. Are taxes higher, lower or the same since Barack Obama was inaugurated?
The Bill
Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi and the House Dems got the CBO score on healthcare reform back and posted the bill online for 72 hours for review. The Healthcare and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 is posted here [PDF]. Speaker Pelosi’s website has some good links to summaries, the CBO scoring and other info on the bill
19Mar2010 | liberalgeek | 5 comments | Continued
Joe Biden, Comedian
Joe Biden spoke at the Radio and Television Correspondents dinner on Wednesday and got in some pretty good lines.
Here are my personal favorites, courtesy of Unofficial Roast Master and VP Joe Biden
On Liz Cheney: Liz Cheney is questioning whether Tom Brady is a real patriot! What the hell, it was worth a [...]
Deep Gubernatorial Thought
Last night at a townhall meeting, Governor Markell offered the following thought when defending some of his more unpopular stands (slavery apology, NRA-written gun law):
You don’t elect someone for their proposals, you elect them for their judgment.
How do you feel about this statement?
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