March 19, 2009 – Delaware Liberal

Late Night Oddity: Jesus Hustles Beer

By nemski March 19, 200911 Comments

Click on image for larger version. h/t Where's My Jetpack

FYI: A Conservatives Example of Free Market is

By Donviti March 19, 200911 Comments

A conservative Free Market is when a company that is too big to fail, fails and gets a quarter of a trillion TAX-PAYER DOLLARS to prevent it from collapsing the…

Comment Rescue: All The Silly Party People Say “Hey”

By jason330 March 19, 200911 Comments

arthur // Mar 19, 2009 at 2:56 pm I give him (Markell) credit as being a newly elected governor in committing political suicide. coons is on the way out, but markell…

Bill Taxing (some) Bonuses Passes The House

By pandora March 19, 200910 Comments

Via MSNBC: WASHINGTON - Acting swiftly, the Democratic-led House approved a bill Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses at firms bailed out by taxpayers. The bill would…

HB1 Update

By cassandra_m March 19, 200936 Comments

Heard from Rebecca who is in Dover with her band of Green Shirts and she says that the House went into session right at 2PM, but promptly recessed for caucus…

Breaking: 8% Pay Cut Among Markell Proposals

By El Somnambulo March 19, 200958 Comments

Jack Markell has proposed an across-the-board 8% pay cut for all state employees, including teachers. This would include both merit and non-merit employees and, coupled with benefits reduction and holiday…

The Economy Is Tough All Over

By nemski March 19, 2009

h/t Japanator

Happy Easter from The SEU

By liberalgeek March 19, 200916 Comments

This morning I attended the second meeting in a month of the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) Oversight Board. The big news that came out of this meeting was that a…

Bailout Companies Owe Federal Taxes

By cassandra_m March 19, 20093 Comments

This is choice: Some top recipients of U.S. bailout money owe the federal government more than $220 million in unpaid taxes, a U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday. Representative John Lewis,…

It’s Tough Being White in America

By nemski March 19, 20093 Comments

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c The New White Face of Crime Daily Show Full Episodes Important Things w/ Demetri Martin Political Humor Jim Cramer

John McCain: Courage, Conviction, Hero…Full of Crap

By Donviti March 19, 20095 Comments

Remember back in the election when people were pushing what a stand up honorable guy McCain was/is? Well, he's so stand up he won't even defend his own daughter from…

Chris Dodd As Fall Guy?

By cassandra_m March 19, 20098 Comments

Over the weekend, the story began to bubble up that Chris Dodd may have neutered the Stimulus Bill language restricting the bonus payouts of firms getting bailout funds. I gather…

Reminder — Budget and HB1 Events Today

By cassandra_m March 19, 20098 Comments

Today is going to be a busy one. Governor Markell is presenting his FY2010 budget today (addressing the massive shortfalls) in a press conference at 1PM in Dover. Not sure…