Number of comments: 3 There is a new documentary coming out – it’s called Tea Party: The Documentary Film. Apparently it’s serious and not a parody (though it’s difficult to tell). Here’s the trailer:
Seriously guys – the second American revolution? Two protests in Washington, D.C. does not a revolution make, even if you’ve got [...]
Number of comments: 11 Tonight is the first vote for the health care reform bill. This vote is only to put proceed to debate the bill. All Democrats have announced they will vote to bring the bill up for a debate.
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln just announced her support for bringing the health care reform [...]
Number of comments: 13 You hear that sucking sound? Yeah, that’s state of Mississippi. Gov. Haley Barbour was on Hardball the other day and commented how he thinks states would do a better job at health care than the federal government. Digby over at Hullaballo points out that Mississippi ranks 51st out of the [...]
Number of comments: 2 Matthew Yglesias has a great look at the size of bills on Capitol HIll and disingenuousness of Republicans who complain about a bill’s length.
The bill is long in part because it’s a complicated bill with lots of words in it. But part of the issue is that bills are printed [...]
Number of comments: 2 Anyone who thinks Mike Castle would be some kind of moderate thorn in the side of the conservative GOP Senate minority leadership is fooling themselves.
Among those senators who reported giving to Castle in October were Thad Cochran (Miss.), whose Senate Victory Fund PAC gave $10,000; Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), whose [...]
Number of comments: 15 This deserves its own post:
From John Kowalko:
Ladies and gentlemen,
You have the advantage of witnessing the final morphing of Charlie Copeland into a Rick Jensen of the blogosphere.
Charlie has taken no verifiable facts, added a dose of false accusations, sprinkled in some blame without regard to any sense of honesty, [...]
Number of comments: 10 Now this pdf letter lacks and real official markings, but it is being circulated as an official invite. And now you are asking yourself why a Senator belonging to the Democratic caucus is an Honored Guest or a Sponsor or Host for a fundraiser for a Republican candidate for Treasurer, [...]
Number of comments: 1 Bacon-Wrapped Turkey with Pear Cider Gravy. Doesn't that sound good? I'm seriously rethinking my own Thanksgiving turkey preparation (fresh turkey, honey brine, stuffed with fresh herbs and roasted on the grill) for this one featuring bacon. [...]
Number of comments: 6 "So what if Sarah Palin didn't write this book? Even God used early scribes to write the Bible," - Moe Lang, a commenter on Amazon.com.' [...]
Number of comments: 15 Valero closed today due to capitalism in action. The owners of Valero were losing money in operating the plant because demand for gas was low. Thus, by closing the plant, they hope to squeeze supply so as to make gas prices rise. And when gas prices do rise, we hear [...]
Number of comments: 15 It’s Friday! It’s the day you’ve been waiting all week to arrive. Not only is it Friday but it’s also open thread time. It’s almost too much excitement!
All I can say about this is that David Vitter should be target #1 for national Democrats in the Senate. This is absolutely [...]
Number of comments: 3 Just over one year ago, John McCain was the Republican nominee for president. Today he is vulnerable in his home state’s senate primary:
Rasmussen Reports finds Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clinging to a two-point lead over a possible challenger, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.). Chris Simcox, the leader of the anti-illegal [...]
Number of comments: 15 “Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcomed their seventh grandchild, Sarah Lynne Cheney, Wednesday, November 18, 2009. She weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz and was born at 8:17 A.M. at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C. Her parents are the Cheney’s daughter Mary and her partner, Heather [...]
Number of comments: 4 Social conservatives have been make dire predictions about how same sex marriage will ruin traditional marriage if it’s allowed. So, what’s happening in Massachusetts, where same sex marriage has been allowed for 5 years?
Actually, the “experiment” has been running in Massachusetts for fully 1/2 decade now. Over three years ago [...]
Number of comments: 6 Coburn is shot down and Huckabee sounds downright respectful of the President. Is this a new trend of rationality on the part of the GOP, or is it just insincere political maneuvering. [...]
Number of comments: 6 After 25 years, Oprah Winfrey is ending her talk show:
This afternoon, Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey’s Harpo production house, announced that the media mogul will step off the “Oprah” set in September 2011. He said Winfrey will confirm the news on Friday’s edition of her show.
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” will [...]
Number of comments: 15 Scott Spencer, a Democratic candidate for the open Congressional seat, is donating 10% of his campaign fundraising to the Food Bank of Delaware, and he is challenging all other statewide candidates to do the same, whether it be to the Food Bank of Delaware or another charity of their choosing. [...]
Number of comments: 3 Mr. Verb Noun 9-One-One has decided that the one thing he fears more than terrorists is–losing.
The New York Times reports that Bernie Kerik’s best bud will not run for Governor. Why?:
It was not clear what prompted the decision, but the prospect of potentially facing Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who [...]
Number of comments: 1 Hah, just kidding. Neocons don’t even know where Eritrea is.
Afewerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for “three or four decades” or longer because they “polarize society.” All forms of media are controlled by the government. At least 10 local journalists remain in prison since their arrests [...]
Number of comments: 10 Delaware’s Department of Correction is under Federal court order to fix a broken prison health care system. The alleged wonders of privatization have once again been exposed for what they are–private profit at taxpayers’ (and consumers’) expense.
The proposed solution? Break down the large failed bureaucracy into ten smaller bureaucracies, according [...]
Number of comments: 2 I’m glad that Republicans are treating the health care debate with the seriousness that it deserves:
Republicans have vowed to fight the legislation at every turn, saying it represents a dangerous expansion in the role of government that would increase taxes and insurance costs for millions of people. “It’s going to [...]
Number of comments: 14 It’s open thread time – time to talk about whatever you like. Feel free to drop links in the comments or just comment on the weather. Nothing is off-topic!
Here’s something to talk about, Joe Biden talked to Jon Stewart on Tuesday.
Part 1
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p [...]
Number of comments: 10 Last night the Harry Reid unveiled the Senate health care reform bill, called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The whole bill can be read here (warning PDF) and a 2-page summary can be read at this link (PDF).
The CBO score for the bill was released yesterday, the bill [...]
Number of comments: 15 Everyone thought the drama of the NY-23 special election was over after Doug Hoffman conceded the race and Bill Owens was sworn in. Bill Owens even got to vote for health care reform. However, an election recanvass found that Hoffman’s votes were dramatically undercounted in one counting, cutting Owen’s lead [...]
Number of comments: 7 This is too funny.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.
The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by [...]
Number of comments: 8 Sarah Palin is not only an idiot, she’s a dangerous idiot with absolutely no control, or thought, over what spews from her mouth.
I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people [...]
Number of comments: 1 How is it that it will take 'decades' for history to judge the success or failure of the Bush administration yet we know already that the Obama administration is a failure?"" [...]
Number of comments: 15 Is it only Wednesday? It already seems like this week has been too long. It’s open thread time, what’s catching your interest today?
I found this amusing – progressive activists crashed an organizing phone for the Teaparty Movement and conservative bloggers. Personally I think the progressive activists are lying, Sarah Palin [...]
Number of comments: 11 She’s incapable of representing all Americans.
On Hannity last night, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she’s “all for” profiling Muslims if it saves “innocent American lives.”
I’m really sick of this sort of talk. It’s beyond disgusting. Frankly, it’s un-American – and I’m not one to use that term lightly. It [...]
Number of comments: 3 Someone writes this in under 60 words:
It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of “the 57 states” is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and [...]
Number of comments: 8 We always knew Obama was smart and sometimes we got confirmation in unexpected ways:
As you know, Plouffe’s book offers the fascinating revelation that just before the South Carolina primary, a senior Edwards adviser offered him a swap: Edwards would drop out of the race if Obama would make him his [...]
Number of comments: 2 A great American president once said this:
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
–President Franklin Roosevelt
What did he know, he only led us through WWII against history’s greatest villain, Adolf Hitler.
The new Republican motto must be “the only thing we have is fear.” Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) is [...]
Number of comments: 2 The Huffington Post and the tabloid Gawker connect recent Biden motorcade accidents to Neilia and Naomi Biden's death nearly 40 years ago. [...]
Number of comments: 7 On top of the news that the GOP has enticed the highly sought after Republican juggernaut Fred Cullis into the race for Delaware’s open Congressional seat, we receive word from Delaware Politics that …. gasp …. Former Delawareans for McCain leader and 17th Republican District chair Kevin Wade is considering [...]
Number of comments: 2 Andrew Sullivan points out something obvious that has been missed. McCain was the one who brought Sarah Palin into the spotlight – she owes all her recent success in enriching Sarah Palin to him. Has McCain apologized yet?
We knew that about a charlatan like Kristol and a nihilist like Rove. [...]
Number of comments: 6 Last night I was able to listen to a repeat broadcast of yesterday's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane (mp3). She spent an hour interviewing three guests about Nidal Hasan, the Ft. Hood killer. Unfortunately, I only got to hear the first half, but it was riveting. The first half [...]
Number of comments: 15 News from downstate is often hard to come by, and political news all the more. So apparently Sussex County Councilwoman Joan Deaver upset the applecart a bit recently when she suggested that the spring break around the Easter holiday be called "Spring Break" instead of "Easter Break." As is their [...]
Number of comments: 10 I have season tickets to Blue Hens Football games at the University of Delaware. So does the new Republican Governor-elect of the State of New Jersey, which perhaps explains the foul odor and ominous feeling of doom I encountered at the last game two weeks ago. I kid. Seriously, I [...]
Two new polls are out from CNN and ABC/Washington Post that find that the country, as it has been for months, is split on the current healthcare reform plans before Congresss. I have always decried these type of polls, because the reporting on them assumes that if you are against [...]
Number of comments: 5 I am sure you are all wondering what Jason330's reaction to the recent poll numbers showing Beau Biden leading Mike Castle by 5 points. Apparently, he fired off a letter to the editor containing his response to the News Journal. I doubt they will print it, but I will. [...]
Number of comments: 9 This goes back to when she first ‘found the Lord’. Hadn’t even dyed her hair blonde yet, although the boobs might already have been altered. I’d require a closer inspection to either confirm or deny.
This footage has been under court-ordered seal, and sitting in the vault of a television production company [...]
Number of comments: 11 LOL!
Warning: Do not be eating or drinking when you read the following, from John Ziegler’s review of Sarah Palin’s new high school slam book:
“For many reasons, this is by far the best book and greatest literary achievement by a political figure in my lifetime.”
“I strongly believe that if every Republican [...]
Number of comments: 15 Can you be a voluntary victim of sexism? Sarah Palin posed for this photo willingly. The sexism charge seems to be one of context, since this photo was originally taken and used for Runner's World magazine and that context of that photo was about health and fitness. It would seem [...]
Number of comments: 1 Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck had a conversation on O’Reilly’s radio show yesterday and predicted violence against Nancy Pelosi could occur.
BECK: Last week, I head you say that — you were on with Dennis Miller. … You two were talking about an insurrection coming.
O’REILLY: Tax revolt.
BECK: He [...] [...]
Number of comments: 15 We Americans, at least in the conventional wisdom zeitgeist, imagine ourselves and our nation to be tough, courageous, and superior to all others. Yet, it would seem that the same people who shout "We're #1!" are the ones almost scared to death of trying or imprisoning terrorists on American soil.' [...]
The CBO scoring for the Senate health care reform bill could come back as soon as today. Once the CBO weighs in, the debate on the bill can start in the Senate. Right now the schedule has the bill ready for a vote around Christmas. The Republicans have been promising [...]
