July 2009 – Page 23 – Delaware Liberal

Dan Froomkin Hired By Huffington Post

By El Somnambulo July 7, 20091 Comment

The Washington Post's self-inflicted loss is the Huffington Post's gain. Glenn Greenwald at Salon is reporting that Dan Froomkin has been hired by the Huffington Post. Seeing as how his…

Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option

By xstryker July 7, 20092 Comments

We all know that Senator Carper has corporate health care lobbyists in his ear and corporate money filling his campaign coffers. But don't any of you DARE give up this…

Rally for Health Care Action — Comment Rescue

By cassandra_m July 7, 20093 Comments

This notice is courtesy of PBaumbach in the Carper thread: If you would like to vent at Carper (or at least his office), there is a rally on Thursday organized…

The Department of Law Will Save Her — More Palin Follies

By cassandra_m July 7, 200927 Comments

So the Quitta from Wasilla is all over the news this AM and finds herself answering a question from an ABC interviewer wanting to know why she would step down…

Deep thought

By Donviti July 7, 200923 Comments

People that don't have kids shouldn't pay a school tax. It's not fair to make them pay.

Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope July 7, 200911 Comments

In other news... The 4th of July Tea Parties were a bust. Senator Cornyn and Governor Perry get booed at the Austin Tea Party. Al Franken will be sworn in…

Tuesday Morning Quick Hits

By Delaware Dem July 7, 200920 Comments

Longtime Delaware civil rights activist Littleton Mitchell, 90, has died in a car accident. Mitchell was a Tuskeegee Airmen and served for 30 years as president of the state's NAACP…

More Like This Please! — David Shuster Asks Sen Carper Tough Questions

By cassandra_m July 6, 200912 Comments

....on the health insurance bills in Congress. He specifically tossed the amount of money Carper has taken from the various health care and pharm industries at Senator Carper to ask…

Federal Eye Highlights Sen. Kaufman

By Delaware Dem July 6, 20094 Comments

I was interviewed today by Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post's Federal Eye column for a story on our junior Senator, Ted Kaufman. Kaufman caught the Federal eye by his…

Quote of the Day

By nemski July 6, 20091 Comment

Representative Thomas Perriello (D-VA) said after the cap and trade bill passed: There’s got to be something more important than getting reelected. If I lose my seat, and that’s the…

Bringing Teh Stoopid

By nemski July 6, 200927 Comments

She wants to give our children the same lifestyle we had --- not a better one. Oh wait, that's not it, she said the Earth was 6,000 years old. Facepalm.…

Why Don’t We Talk About The Real Victims – Fallen Politicians?

By Unstable Isotope July 6, 200912 Comments

Last week's News Journal brings us this wacky letter to the editor: I enjoyed your June 26 editorial pointing out politically prominent men involved in adulterous relationships. There are many…

Breaking: Pfeiffer Retires as Finance Secretary, Guv Proposes Eliminating Department

By El Somnambulo July 6, 200941 Comments

Governor Markell has just announced a proposal to eliminate the Department of Finance, and to distribute the Department's responsibilities among other State agencies. Secretary of Finance Gary Pfeiffer, who recommended…