Archive for September, 2011
Carper Needs Some Talking To.
Carper is doing his best to sound like a Republican again. Tell Senator Carper to support the President and vote for the America Jobs Act today. Tell him that Democrats support creating jobs and protecting Social Security and Medicare, not sacrificing both to protect the tax cuts of the rich.
14Sep2011 | Delaware Dem | 21 comments | Continued
County Tries to Sell State White Elephant
Rockwood. Yet another tony estate, built in the mid-1800’s, championed by those people more concerned about family crests than family stability, purchased by New Castle County with lotsa bucks from the state, turned into a ‘mansion and a park’ during the go-go Gordon and Freebury years, and now, and now…the County can’t afford the upkeep and wants to pawn it off on the state.
14Sep2011 | El Somnambulo | 28 comments | Continued
REEL Talk Film Premiere featuring Gov. Markell at The Queen.
A short film depicting a day in the life of Governor Jack Markell will premiere tonight at the World Cafe Live at The Queen in Wilmington. The film was produced by students participating in the Jewish Family Services of Delaware Media Matters program, a media and video production class for “at-risk” youth. The students in the program shadowed the Governor for a day this past Spring. The Governor will attend the priemere.
14Sep2011 | Delaware Dem | Comments Off | Continued
Have “decent” Republicans simply quit?
There is this person, Sarah Reidy, who is sick and sad about what the GOP has become but mostly you just hear crickets.
I mean, shouldn’t someone other than a lowly Huntsman staffer speak up against the pep-rally for death and cruerlty that the GOP has become? Are the decent Republicans simply ceeding the [...]
Karen Weldin Stewart’s Appeal to Nowhere…
…on behalf of, well, not the people of the State of Delaware, has been dismissed by federal regulators. The News-Journal story has a distinct Karen in Wonderland flavor to it.
To (half-)wit: Our elected insurance commissioner, apparently on her own, applied for a three-year waiver to:
13Sep2011 | El Somnambulo | 66 comments | Continued“exempt Aetna and UnitedHealthcare from spending 80 percent of premiums on medical care rather than administrative expenses or profits.”
Is This ‘The Reveal’ We’ve Been Waiting For?
For those of you who don’t know what “the reveal” is just google “The Reveal” & Obama and a post by yours truly should be in the top 50 results. If that is too much work for your lazy ass, just read this quote from Henry IV, Part 1
13Sep2011 | jason330 | 8 comments | ContinuedI know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
Hold on a sec…
I saw an ad for a hotel this weekend. In the ad the hotel chain seemed to boast that it put fresh sheets on the bed every time a guest checked out of the room.
Does that mean that other hotel chains are not changing the sheets for every new guest?
13Sep2011 | jason330 | 3 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread
So what were your thoughts on the Teabagging debate last night? I can never bare to watch, so I followed the reaction on several blogs I follow and on Twitter. Besides Santorum’s Freudian slip, the most outrageous, disgusting and revealing moment of the evening was conservative crowd cheering the death of the elderly uninsured. Now, the Republican position on healthcare has always been that if you can’t afford health insurance, then it sucks to be you. Now that has evolved to cheering for the deaths of the uninsured.
13Sep2011 | Delaware Dem | 3 comments | Continued
Dover City Proposal affecting Employee speech defeated.
Dover city committee rejected a proposal that would prohibit city employees from making any negative comments about individuals or groups based on race, gender or other legally protected characteristics on social media websites, blogs or other online forums, including Facebook, Twitter and other online social media networks, no matter if they were on or off duty.
13Sep2011 | Delaware Dem | 8 comments | Continued
Wagner classifies efforts to get him to do his job “frivolous.”
Some months ago, Richard Korn, the former Democratic nominee for Auditor, filed suit against state Auditor Tom Wagner, alleging that Wagner was violating a state law that requires the auditor to review school district budgets annually and has been doing so since changing the audit procedures in 2002. However, a Chancery Court judge has dismissed the suit, ruling that the Chancery Court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case, and that the Superior Court would be the proper venue.
13Sep2011 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
With so many debates… sooner or later….
…the GOP’s innate racism would shine through… Rick Santorum on the GOP attracting Latino votes:
13Sep2011 | Delaware Dem | 15 comments | Continued“What what Gov. Perry has done is he provided in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, maybe that was an attempt to attract illegal vote — I mean Latino — voters,” Santorum said.
Sorry about that….
I think it might have been a first, but yesterday Delaware Liberal had no new posts. No, it was not an extended moment of silence for the 10th year anniversary of 9/11. It was just a mix up of schedules. Our apologies. Now back to politics….
13Sep2011 | Delaware Dem | 6 comments | Continued
The 25 Most Un-American Reactions To The 9/11 Anniversary
Here is a sample:
Good Luck reading through all 25
11Sep2011 | jason330 | 19 comments | Continued
Never Forget the Stupidity
Never forget that we turned a terrorist attack into a huge win for jihadists.
Never forget that on 9/11, rather than being called to be our highest and best selves, we were asked to go shopping,
Rather than being told the truth, we were told that the air is fine and everyone should hurry back [...]
Ten Years Later – What We Remember and What 9/11 Means to Us
Like most Americans, we at Delaware Liberal were witnesses to the attacks on New York and D.C. ten years ago. In remembrance of that day we have decided to do a group post would look back on that day and what has happened since.
11Sep2011 | MJ | 21 comments | Continued
Markell v. Biden
As I read this it sounds like Biden is saying that criminals need to face justice and Markell is saying “boys will be boys.”
10Sep2011 | jason330 | 14 comments | Continued
Democrats Should Never Resign From Congress
No matter how safe the district is. No matter how lurid the indiscretion was. Democrats should never resign. Republicans are just too good at tricking people into voting against their interests.
9Sep2011 | jason330 | 29 comments | Continued
The Second Best 9/11 Ten Years Later Cartoon I’ve Seen
The best being Rob Tornoe’s which, in one panel, perfectly captured the ten years of bungling, stupidity and heartbreak that we’ve had to endure because the terrorist stuck while we had Cheney (a psycho) and Bush (a retarded psycho) and in the White House.
9Sep2011 | jason330 | Comments Off | Continued
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs…
It is dress like Steven Jobs Day today. Everybody in your jeans and black mock turtle neck? Good. You look fantastic.
In other jobs news: The President gave a speech. I guess he called out the Republicans directly because some professional lefties like Paul Krugman seemed to like it:
9Sep2011 | jason330 | 23 comments | Continued
The Illegals are Coming! The Illegals are Coming!
That’s the rallying cry of a group of “concerned state legislators.” The group, State Legislators for Legal Immigration, was founded by State Representative Daryl Metcalfe or Pennsylvania.
Metcalfe is a colorful character. In 2009, he held up a resolution declaring October “Domestic Violence Awareness Month” because he claimed that the bill “had language in [...]
The ‘Lessons’ We Never Learned From 9/11
It’s hard to take the slogan “never forget” seriously when, as a country, we never learned the true lessons of 9/11 in the first place.
8Sep2011 | Rob Tornoe | 8 comments | Continued
Federal Gas Tax Wanes
Maybe we should think about raising the federal gas tax and the state gas tax while we are at it.
8Sep2011 | nemski | 1 comment | Continued
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