Archive for June, 2011
John Carney Wants to Know How You’d Manage the Federal Budget
He is holding 3 meetings on Wednesday, June 8 in conjunction with the Concord Coalition, which is billed as a non-partisan policy organization. Here is the invite from Representative Carney that came in my email:
5Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 20 comments | Continued
GOP Civil War Watch: Cain Mutineers vs. Bachmann-Turner-Diary-Overdrives
Herman Cain says that this Bachmann prayer was “The Ultimate Pander.”
5Jun2011 | jason330 | 2 comments | Continued
Sunday Reading
Here’s a few links to some longer pieces that might be of interest on a lazy Sunday:
5Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
Weekend Open Thread
It’s the weekend, and here is your Open Thread.
4Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
DeLuca: ‘No Comment’ on DelCog/PDD Request. Butler: ‘Don’t blame me (or Beau), It was the Gen Assembly’
Chad Livengood reports on the not so shocking reactions.
4Jun2011 | jason330 | 3 comments | Continued
If The White House Garden Grew Subsidized Crops
This is a great visualization using the White House Kitchen garden to look at what farm products are subsidized by the government. Who in their right mind would plan on the subsidized garden as a reasonable diet for anyone?
4Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
Late Night Video — The Essential Tea Party Trait
And that would be racism — that they work very hard to convince themselves is more principled than that — fueled by the resentments targeted at the wrong person.
3Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
Delaware’s Missed Connections
I saw you at the Elsmere Walmart. You were drinkin Gin…
3Jun2011 | jason330 | 3 comments | Continued
Friday Open Thread
It’s Friday, Friday, Friday. As you read today’s open thread, are you going to be kickin’ it in front seat or sittin’ in the back?
3Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 28 comments | Continued
Junk Men
Does anything come between a politician and his Calvins? Apparently, not.
3Jun2011 | nemski | 4 comments | Continued
I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Earmarks Are Going On In Here!
Earmarks — didn’t you think that they were all done with? I mean, the Republicans in Congress showily promised that this Congress would mark the End of Earmarks As We Know It.
3Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Pew Research Reports: Top Reaction to GOP Field – “Unimpressed”
Americans have decidedly negative reactions to the candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination.
2Jun2011 | jason330 | 6 comments | Continued
Late Night Video — The Republican Rapture
Congressman Ed Markey goes to town on the Ryan Budget, by using the Rapture Fail as a metaphor for that the GOP is trying to do here.
2Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Another Sign that the Apocalypse is Near
In another sign that the end of the world is at hand, the KKK decided to protest the Westboro Baptist Sect at Arlington National Cemetery. I’m going to start to pack a survival box for the end of the world. The KKK is on the same side of an issue as me.
2Jun2011 | MJ | 1 comment | Continued
DelCOG’s and PDD’s Joint Statement to Senator DeLuca
The Delaware Coalition for Open Government and the Progressive Democrats for Delaware have issued a Joint Statement on Senator DeLuca on the ongoing issue of “double dipping.”
2Jun2011 | Delaware Dem | 27 comments | Continued
Thursday Open Thread
Welcome to your daily open thread. Lots going on today, including plenty of whining by the GOP about their meeting yesterday with President Obama. But then, you can’t count your day as complete without those guys whinging about something.
2Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
Progressives Decry Senate Redistricting Plan
Tonight at 7 p.m., there will be a public hearing in the Senate chamber of Legislative Hall regarding the abomination that passes as the Senate Redistricting Plan. Paul Baumbach, of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware, is expected to speak at the meeting tonight on behalf of the PDD, and what follows are his prepared remarks.
2Jun2011 | Delaware Dem | 10 comments | Continued
It’s Official: Americans Hate the Ryan Budget
There has been alot of polling on the GOP plan to kill Medicare. The latest version is from CNN, with 58% opposing and 35% for. Another recent poll shows that Democrats agree to major cutbacks to Medicare at their own risk.
2Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 8 comments | Continued
Traffic Schmaffic – Middletown to Rehoboth in a Measly 4 Hours and Loving It!
It is summer in Delaware, so time to complain about how long it takes to get from where you are, to the beach.
So many other stupid motorists clogging up the roads, so many glances at the speedometer reading 5mph. *sigh*
What to do?
Take a tax payer funded hop on a New Jersey state police chopper? I guess if you are some fat loser Republican.
Leave for Dewey at 3:00am? Maybe.
Just don’t do this one thing…DON’T…
2Jun2011 | jason330 | 14 comments | Continued
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 2, 2011
It doesn’t take much of a roadblock to derail a bill once the General Assembly calendar turns to June.
When the NRA, which has at least half the legislators in its sights pocket, lays out the slippery slope card canard, legislators either cower and/or hold out their hands for campaign cash.
And so it came to pass [...]
Sarah Palin™ and the Merry Teapartiers
Sarah Palin™ continues her long, strange fleecing of America.
2Jun2011 | nemski | 4 comments | Continued
Top Ten Reasons Terrorist Have (so far) Failed to Kill Tony DeLuca
10. Dr. Emmit Brown kept the plutoniom for his time machine.
9. The box cutters were supposed to be in the drawer next to the tin foil. (Who moved them?)
8. DeLuca continues to not travel to Iraq or Aghanistan.
7. In fighting between the Red Brigade and the IRA about who gets the credit
Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to your daily Open Thread. Only two days til the weekend! When the weather will be better!
1Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 13 comments | Continued
Waivers So That Brokers Can Get Paid
Today’s NJ has a spectacular bit of reporting on the effort by the Insurance Commissioner to request waivers for two insurance firms in Delaware.
1Jun2011 | cassandra_m | 24 comments | Continued
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 1, 2011
Catch-22 author Joseph Heller spent the bulk of his writing career vainly trying to come up with something that captured the public’s imagination like his seminal anti-war novel.
Upon releasing a novel late in his career entitled Something Happened, a critic dismissed it with this two-word review: “Nothing happened.”
Which, according to the Legislative Council employees charged [...]
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