Day: March 30, 2009

Tomorrow, Governor Markell will sit down for a "Blogger's Roundtable" with some of your hardworking Delaware Liberal contributors as well as other preeminent and well known Delaware bloggers to discuss…

E'ffed up. Note: I didn't find this by way of Eschaton, but I'd be surprised if he didn't mention it.

See, I truly believe that the stigma the religious nuts of this country and the world for that matter have attached to abortion does more harm then good.  Everyone likes…

While I may not agree totally with their methodology and definitions, PolitiFact does have an interesting site that has compiled about 500 promises that President Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress.

Here is a nifty chart they created to track promises kept.

Below the fold, you will see a HUGE list of promises kept, in the works, or stalled by others (i.e. Republicans). Meanwhile there are only three broken promises, which are:

No. 234: Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
No. 240: Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
No. 505: Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs officials

I quibble here. Obama created tougher rules, and harmed his administration as a result since he is having a hard time staffing it, so much so that waivers of those rules are now required. If you want to count those waivers as breaking the promise, then I suppose the promise is broken. But just technically speaking, the rules were put in place.