All Posts Tagged With: "Democrats"
Breaking: William Daley Resigning As White House Chief Of Staff
MSNBC just cut in to report that William Daley will be resigning as the White House Chief of Staff. Not sure what this means.
9Jan2012 | pandora | 4 comments | Continued
DCCC Ad On Medicare
The DCCC has a new ad to run in Republican Congressional districts about Medicare.
20Apr2011 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued
Tone Deaf
I’m really not certain if writing this post is worth it. I’m also not certain I want to go down this road again. Truth is… I’m weary. Even sadder, I’m tuning out.
First, this isn’t a post about policy – it’s about tone.
On that note, I have a few questions for certain Progressives/Liberals/Democrats:
What is your end [...]
Notochord* Detected
Steny Hoyer says that Congress will definitely vote on extending the tax cuts on incomes up to $250,000 during the lame duck session.
19Nov2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Even A Stopped Clock…
Time’s Joe Klein writes about the foolishness of Blue Dog Democrats.
5Nov2010 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Time To Rethink Party Switches?
Two prominent party switchers have gone down to defeat in this election cycle. Republican turned Democrat Arlen Specter was upset by Joe Sestak in the PA-Sen primary and last night Democrat turned Republican Parker Griffith was defeated in the AL-05 Republican primary by Mo Brooks (decisively enough in a 3-way race that no runoff will be needed).
2Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
The Democratic Party Could Do A Public Service
We’ve all been watching recently the slow and painful progress of the financial reform bill. Yesterday the Republicans hung together to block debate from even beginning on the Senate bill. Mitch McConnell used his usual dishonesty in explaining why Republicans were blocking the bill:
“A vote for cloture is a vote that says, ‘We’re [...]
Democrats To Get All Vincent Van Gogh About Earmarks
Ethically speaking it hasn’t been a great year for Democrats in Washington, but with the ouster of Massa and other corrections of mis-steps, Congressional Democrats are continuing down the path of ethics reform. One item ripe for massive reform are earmarks. House Democrat leaders are actively working on ways to reform —even temporarily halt — [...]
10Mar2010 | nemski | 2 comments | Continued
Highlights Of The Health Care Reform Summit
Daily Kos compiled a video of some of the highlights from Democratic legislators during today’s health care summit. I’d like to add, Louise Slaughter rocks!
25Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
“It’s Worth Thinking About”
At yesterday’s Q&A with Democrats Obama delivered a line that should have every Democrat sitting up and taking notice. If you watch the video below one thing stands out – Obama is not laughing.
“There was apparently a headline after the Massachusetts election. The Village Voice announced that Republicans win a 41-59 majority. It’s worth thinking [...]
UPDATED: More Obama Q&A
Tomorrow morning, the president will be doing a televised Q&A with the Senate Democratic caucus.
3Feb2010 | pandora | 43 comments | Continued
“When Democrats Retreat, You Better Watch Out Or You Will Get Run Over”
Those are John Cole’s words, which go a long way in describing my feelings about the chances of HCR getting better and not worse. Yesterday, in one of John’s typically snarky posts he asked: My only question- which house blue dog will be the first to introduce a bill extend the Bush tax cuts to [...]
22Jan2010 | pandora | 19 comments | Continued
Breaking: Delaware Legislative Travel
Update:
The News Journal published Ginger Gibson’s article today, “Legislator’ travel tabs often missing”.
State lawmakers can travel when and where they want on the taxpayer’s tab.
snip
Getting into a jet at taxpayers’ expense isn’t difficult in either chamber. In fact, no one interviewed for this article could recall a time when a travel request had been turned [...]
Republicans Are Still Really Unpopular
The conventional wisdom this summer was that the GOP was ascendant because of the passion of the teabaggers and that they stand to gain seats in the 2010 elections. However, polling data over this period has shown a decrease in support for Democrats but has not shown any subsequent rise in favorability of the [...]
1Oct2009 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
Reforming the Democratic Presidential Nomination Process
Steve Benen at Washington Monthly reminds us that even though this is a non-election year, there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes.
IF I EVER HEAR THE WORD ‘SUPERDELEGATE’ AGAIN…. The current system the major political parties use to nominate presidential candidates has very few defenders. The process is, by any reasonable [...]
Psssttt…Jay…We’ve Been Telling You This For Months
Jay Rockefeller is “getting it.”
On Thursday, Rockefeller admitted he expects little bipartisan support.
“There is a very small chance any Republicans will vote for this health-care plan. They were against Medicare and Medicaid [created in the 1960s]. They voted against children’s health insurance.
“We have a moral choice. This is a classic case of the good guys [...]
What’s The Point of Having Cake If You Can’t Eat It?
(Via From Pine View Farm) That is my favorite saying from the Muppets’ Miss Piggy in response to someone who was silly enough to recite the tired cliche that she could not have her cake and eat it too. Apparently Blue Dog Democrats think this way too:
Overall, Blue Dogs submitted more [...]
Boom Goes The Dynamite
h/t Kentucky’s Barefoot and Progressive
5Mar2009 | nemski | 17 comments | Continued
Howard Dean Leaving DNC
Very sad, but not unexpected.
The rumors seem to have Claire McCaskell leading the DNC with Steve Hildebrand as her second. But the 50 State strategy seems to be new organizing bedrock and will stay on for awhile.
I remember when the elected and pundit Dem elites went batshit crazy (repubs laughed and laughed) when the [...]
Democratic City Committee Rally Today
The Democratic City Committee is having a GOTV rally at the Delaware Association of Police building at 2201 Lancaster Avenue today, Wednesday 22 October from 5:30 to 8. Invitation is extended to everyone and children are welcome.
Let us know if you go, and we’ll post pictures and reports if you send them [...]
The “No Liberals On TV” Rule Needs Revisiting
The “conservatives only” policies of cable news were put to the test by Olbermann. Now Maddow is kicking it.
Rachel Maddow, a woman who does not own a television set, has done something that is virtually unheard of: she has doubled the audience for a cable news channel’s 9 p.m. hour [...]
The DelawareLiberal Interview of Matt Denn: Part 2
This is the second part of our interview with Matt Denn.
20Oct2008 | liberalgeek | Comments Off | Continued
Terry Spence Hitching His Campaign to Markell?
Nationally, we’ve seen a few endangered Republican candidates openly embrace their associations (real and imagined) with Barack Obama. Unstable Isotope recently reported here a story she had heard about Republicans not including their affiliations on their signage and literature or claiming to be Independent as a way to run from the damaged brand. This is [...]
16Oct2008 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
You’re Doin’ A Heck of A Job There, Mr. Bush!
On the eve of the DE Republican Convention, we should note that it turns out that 7 years of the Worst.President.Ever. has the amazing side benefit of creating new, young Democratic voters. A new poll from Pew shows that the previous CW about Dems having a slight advantage among younger voters (18-29 year olds) [...]
2May2008 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
The First Debate: Education
Attendees of the debate tonight between Democratic gubernatorial Jack Markell and John Carney on Education pretty much filled the lower space of the Grand and there were some folks who ventured up to the (cordoned off) area upstairs. Markell supporters were very visible – ranging from the kids outside with signs and cheers (having [...]
20Mar2008 | cassandra_m | 19 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
