Archive for January, 2009

The Success of Bush’s Pro-Terror Anti-Terror Policies

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Perhaps the stupidest and most widely circulated outgoing Bush talking point is that the George W Bush’s anti-terror policies were a success. For one thing it starts the “anti-terror success clock” ticking the day after we were attacked thereby utterly ignoring the biggest national security failure since Pearl Harbor, and this idiotic talking point is […]

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Who is Delaware’s Super Nintendo Chalmers

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Delaware is trying to rebound after the shooting at William Penn High School earlier this week. Today The News Journal ran an article about the place of violence in our schools and in our society. So let’s go to the Superintendent George Meney. William Penn H.S. is in the Colonial School District which is run […]

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Your Morning Dose of Dave Burris

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Rotund windbag, Dave Burris, writing under the pen name “CharlieCopeland” informs us that a trillion is a big number. He also mentions….wait for it….taxes are too high. (Wah!) He somehow fails to mention that there was a budget surplus when George W Bush took office and that it was naked unrestrained Republicanism that put your […]

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Biden to Resign Next Week.

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NBC News is reporting that Vice President-elect Joe Biden will resign his U.S. Senate seat on Thursday next week. I would assume that Ted Kaufman would be sworn in that day or Friday.

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Mike Castle is John Boehner’s Bitch

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Mike Castle does not represent Delaware. This isn’t news to many of you that read this blog, but it needs to be said over and over again so the Democrats can put someone up against Castle and beat him. Castle voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. The bill passed but that’s […]

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Bank CEO Requests No Bonus

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Bank CEO Requests No Bonus

Following five quarters of declining profit, Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis has requested that he and other senior executives receive no bonuses. What do you think? Jacob Metz, Car Radio Installer  “Give him the bonus anyway! Why should he get what he wants after doing such a terrible job?” Mitch Severance, File Clerk  “You mean, no […]

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House Majority Caucus On The Move

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Two things going on here. 1) I think this open government bill has a chance of passing in the Senate this year because the House looks ready to shame them into it and 2) Drew Volturo is the new Communications Director for the House Majority Caucus which means the Dems messaging effort is going to […]

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A Shudder Goes Through Hube’s House

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A Shudder Goes Through Hube’s House

Spider Man is an Obama fan.  …and vice versa.  The full story can be read here. h/t nemski in the lower post. Note: This is the guy Spidey says he mistook Joe Biden for on a train.

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Shudder Goes Through Bush White House

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Chuckie Taylor, not this one but the son of Charles Taylor former Liberian President, “has been sentenced by a US court to 97 years in prison for committing torture“. The case has been the first test of a 1994 US law allowing the prosecution of citizens who commit torture overseas. Oops, I don’t think Cheney […]

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Word to the Radical Right

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Word to the Radical Right

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Breaking News: Hijacked Saudi Tanker Free

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Somali Pirates have been more successful in the three months than the Pittsburgh Pirates have been in almost thirty years.

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OMG!

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I’m going to the swearing in. (Standing Room Tickets – Independence Avenue Side)  Full backstory post to follow.

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QOD

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Has Blagojevich been convicted of a crime yet?

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