Archive for June, 2010

Joe Barton Is Ashamed

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the top recipient of donations from oil companies, apologized to BP for a “shakedown.”

17Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued

Thursday Open Thread

The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

17Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 17, 2010

Hell hath frozen over. Whether by design or accident, a significant roll call has escaped the clutches of the Senate censors. I hereby posit that Colin Bonini threatened a gaseous eruption that would have rendered the Senate Chamber uninhabitable. I encourage your snarky theories as well. The significant roll call in question is Tuesday’s vote [...]

17Jun2010 | El Somnambulo | 12 comments | Continued

Reflecting On Obama’s Speech

Even if progressives and political junkies didn’t like Obama’s speech, others thought the speech did what it was supposed to do.

17Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 12 comments | Continued

Dispatch From The BP Braintrust

BP Executive Carl-Henric Svanberg wants you to know he really cares about the “small people.”

16Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued

What Happens If The Tea Party Doesn’t Win Big?

Unstable Isotope posted on the laughable poll that shows O’Donnell and Urquhart winning big. This got me thinking. These guys, and gals, really, really, really believe they are going to win – and win big. Take a stroll over to Delaware Politics if you don’t believe me. On, UI’s thread I asked… The problem is [...]

16Jun2010 | pandora | 12 comments | Continued

Wednesday Open Thread

The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

16Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued

Jim Westhoff Moneybomb

Hope this isn’t too late , but Jim Westhoff (running for 35th District Rep) kicked off his moneybomb effort last night and we’ll let him take it from there:

16Jun2010 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wed., June 16, 2010

If you’re getting this report on your Delaware Liberal I-Phone app, you’ll want to pull over onto the shoulder before reading this. The Delaware State Senate voted yesterday to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. This is a signature accomplishment for this General Assembly and the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Darryl Scott and [...]

16Jun2010 | El Somnambulo | 10 comments | Continued

O’Donnell Supporters Get Excited

O’Donnell supporters have been pushing poll results showing her leading Mike Castle by 47% among likely Republican voters. Dialogue Delaware finds that these results are a bit misleading.

16Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 16 comments | Continued

Call Senator Carper, Sign the Petition

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is working on an effort today to get constituents of Wall Street reform conferees asking us to sign the Hoenig-Fisher letter

16Jun2010 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued

Colin Bonini Still Thinks Governing is a Stunt

So here we have another episode of the Delaware Republican party — the Supposed to Be Governing Division — putting out news and PR bait in form of silly bills rather than actually working at the State’s problems. In other words, its reruns from these people again.

15Jun2010 | cassandra_m | 29 comments | Continued

Tuesday Open Thread

The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

15Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued

Financial Reform Conference

Right now the Financial Reform bill conference is taking place and it’s being broadcast.
You can go to this link to watch the hearings.
Here’s a great post by Joan McCarter at Daily Kos on what to watch for during the hearings.

15Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | Comments Off | Continued

C’Mon Delaware (the podcast) Episode 7

This is the “walking the dog, talking about things we like in Delaware Broadcast”

15Jun2010 | jason330 | 12 comments | Continued

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Due diligence is essential during these last weeks of session, as bills fly through w/o, in many cases, much consideration either by the legislators or the public.
Other bills will be introduced as props for the upcoming campaign. Cassandra will have a particularly instructive one for you in another post today.
Lobbyists are swarming around the Hall, [...]

15Jun2010 | El Somnambulo | 4 comments | Continued

President Obama Doesn’t Care About White People

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa): “…the president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race — on the side that favors the black person.”

15Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 41 comments | Continued

Another Tale Of GOP Minority Outreach

Welcome to the North American DMZ:
The Republican nominee for a New Mexico congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary.
Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins emphasized that he does not advocate doing so.
Mullins says border security came up during [...]

14Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued

Historians Agree: Bush Sucked

98% of historians informally surveyed by the HNN rated Bush’s presidency as a failure. 61% rated it Bush as the worst president with an additional 35% rating him in the bottom 10.

14Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued

Monday Open Thread

The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

14Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 25 comments | Continued

Constitution Smonstitution

Buoyed by recent public opinion polls suggesting they’re on the right track with illegal immigration, Arizona Republicans will likely introduce legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona – and thus American citizens according to the U.S. Constitution – to parents who are not legal U.S. citizens. The law largely [...]

14Jun2010 | pandora | 10 comments | Continued