Archive for March, 2010
Thursday Open Thread
I hope everyone’s not too hung over from last night’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Today we go back to not celebrating Irish heritage. Are you ready for an open thread? Let’s thread.
Heckuva job CNN! CNN has hired Red State’s Erick Erickson to be their newest contributor to their politics coverage. Erick [...]
CBO Score Is In
According to Jonathan Cohn at TNR, the CBO score is in, and it looks good.
Democrats in the administration and Congress have agreed on a set of amendments to the Senate health care bill. And, according to House leadership, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is certifying that the amendments will reduce the deficit. That should fulfill the [...]
Hopefully Clearing Up a (Talking) Point
I know it’s a slippery slope when you start trying to debunk every inane talking point that comes along, but there was a specific one that I wanted to look into and get the facts on. There’s a certain “saucy” commentor here who keeps making claims along the lines of, “Obama’s going to make poor [...]
18Mar2010 | Scott P | 32 comments | Continued
Legislative Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show-Thurs. March 18, 2010
The big news is that John ‘Let’s Arm Everyone’ Atkins had to backtrack on his bill that could’ve, well, armed everyone. Here’s the money quote from Delaware’s Most Embarrassing Legislator:
“We’re either going to come in with a substitute bill or an amendment,” Atkins said. “It was never Sen. Booth’s or my intent to allow guns [...]
Health Care Reform: A Wrench In The Works?
The CBO score for the health care reconciliation bill was expected yesterday, but it was not released. The issue appears to be related to the hazards of reconciliation. To survive challenges during the reconciliation process, the items in the bill must be directly related to budgetary items and they must reduce the deficit. [...]
18Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
Wednesday’s Evening Read
Time Magazine looks at 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years. Here is Gregory Rodriguez on The White Anxiety Crisis.
The Times’ Washington correspondent Giles Whittell looks at the our health care crisis, Obama is bashing on the brick wall of unlogic.
Politics editor of The Atlantic Marc Ambinder comments on 3 Reasons Why Republicans Might Not [...]
Meet our Newest Contributor, MJ!
In anticipation of the upcoming election season, and to try to balance out the Northern Delaware / New Castle County bias of Delaware Liberal, we have invited another of our wonderful and insightful commentators to join us as a contributor: MJ of the aptly titled Lower Slower Delaware.
17Mar2010 | Delaware Dem | 41 comments | Continued
Industrial Park
Bunting, Jr. says the Delaware Seashore State Park is an industrial area, in an attempt to lie just enough to confuse the public. Yeah, the Inlet is like Edgemoor South, I tell you.
17Mar2010 | Delaware Dem | 27 comments | Continued
St. Patrick’s Day Open Thread
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, a celebration of all things Irish. I hope you’re all wearing green and drinking green beer in celebration. I thought I’d share some St. Patrick’s Day facts (from History.com):
The Celebration
Corned beef and cabbage is a traditional St. Patrick’s Day dish. In 2007, roughly 41.5 billion pounds of U.S. [...]
17Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Kucinich To Vote Yes
Rep. Dennis Kucinich held a press conference to announce that he will vote yes on the the health care reform bill, despite previously announcing he would vote no.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced this morning that he will in fact vote for the Senate health care bill. Kucinich’s switch was a major pickup for Democrats who [...]
Legislative Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Report-St. Patty’s Day 2010
Fearless Prediction #1: Garish green will be worn in Leg Hall today by people who should not wear garish green in this lifetime or any other.
Fearless Prediction #2: For the second consecutive day of this 3-week session, the Senate will have no agenda. Not necessarily a BAD thing, mind you, but couldn’t they at least [...]
Brown To Host First Beltway Fundraiser
Ah, more of the same. Tea Party Senator Scott Brown will host his first beltway fundraiser — umm, tea party? — later this month. If you have $1000, you too can attend. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
17Mar2010 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
Fox Noise to Interview Obama Tonight
President Obama will be interviewed on Fox Noise by Bret Baier. The interview will be broadcast tonight at 6 PM.
17Mar2010 | nemski | Comments Off | Continued
Is Graham a RINO in Recovery?
Sen. Linsdey Graham, John McCain’s BFF, talking about health care reform on South Carolina radio inteview:
Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they’re making a suicide run here.
Rep. Mike Honda, a Democrat of Japanese-American descent, was not too pleased:
I am disheartened that Senator Graham chose to [...]
Hissy Fit
As the passage of health care reform becomes more and more likely, the Republican hissy fits have become more and more vehement and more dishonest. First the Republicans were throwing public tantrums about the use of reconciliation, despite the fact that reconciliation had been used multiple times by Republicans (ones currently servng in the [...]
17Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
A Quiet Victory
The one debate between scientists and deniers that I don’t relish is the argument vaccinations cause autism. Maybe as I parent, I understand the need, the desire to find answers to questions that remained unanswered. Earlier this week, three separate rulings determined that vaccines — specifically thimerosal —are not linked to the cause of autism [...]
17Mar2010 | nemski | 11 comments | Continued
The Price of Taking the United States for Granted
The story and repercussions of Israel’s insult to Vice President Joe Biden and the US by announcing hugely controversial expansion of East Jerusalem settlements right as the VP visits doesn’t seem to stop. Allan Loudell has been following this and has up a blog post that he has been updating as the story develops:
If [...]
Late Night Video: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
One of the big publishing stories last year was the wildly successful Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now Quirk Books is about to release Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, a prequel. Here is the movie trailer — yes, movie trailer — for the new book.
16Mar2010 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
Tuesday’s Evening Read
Evolutionist Eric Michael Johnson examines his beliefs in Why I Am Not A Humanist.
The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt seems to think that “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” should be Obama’s mantra, Obama’s happiness deficit.
The Times’ Oliver Kamm looks at how A rediscovered play adds to the Bard’s shifting reputation.
Emptiest. Threat. Ever.
Apparently, Democrats in Washington are on the verge of seriously hurting the feelings of Congressional Republicans. So much so, in fact, that this is what they have threatened to do:
While a bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden would provide at least a short-term boost to a beleaguered president, Republicans have made clear that the legislative [...]
What Flavor Is Your Tea, Partiers?
In the words of St. Ronnie, “Here they go again.” It seems that an alliance of Tea Party groups has descended upon Washington again, in a three-week “Take the Town Halls To Washington” rally. They’re protesting a government take-over, or Bolshevik revolution, or alien invasion, or some such thing. Oh, OK. Actually they’re trying a [...]
16Mar2010 | Scott P | 3 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread
Welcome to Tuesday. I think we must have survived the Breitbartocalypse. I don’t feel any different. It’s definitely feeling like spring around here. My crocuses have bloomed and my daffodils will bloom any day now. I find it kind of amazing how spring this year was almost like a light [...]
16Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 33 comments | Continued
Senator Kaufman Takes On Wall Street
Senator Kaufman is delivering a speech today in favor or financial reform. All I can say is wow, you go Ted!
Mr. President, last Thursday, the bankruptcy examiner for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. released a 2,200 page report about the demise of the firm which included riveting detail on the firm’s accounting practices. That [...]
Cap and Trade is Not a Tax; or Why Delmarva Dealings Failed His Economics Class
Because in spite of this attempt to invoke this appeal to the authority of a basic economics class (which this person Cato has clearly never had), just claiming that TAXES ARE BAD is just not an argument when dealing with cap and trade. Because cap and trade is not a taxation system, it is [...]
16Mar2010 | cassandra_m | 7 comments | Continued
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
They’re ba-a-a-a-ck. For three weeks…before they break for Easter. The ‘honorables’ (shout out to Ralph Moyed) return to Dover with expansion of casino gambling apparently at the top of the ‘to-do, or not to-do’ list.
I support expansion beyond the current race-track sites, not b/c I was a strong advocate for casino gambling in the first [...]
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