Newt Gingrich FAIL — Adults Only Late Night Edition
I laughed so had at this that I almost fell out of my chair:
Special Election Tomorrow! UPDATE with CapeGazette Endorsement
The Special Election for the House seat in the 37th is tomorrow, 12 September. Rob Robinson is the Democratic candidate, running against local lobbyist Ruth Briggs-King. If you are in the 37th -- make sure you go vote on Saturday. If you are not in the 37th and want to help out, volunteers are needed to work the polls and get out the vote all day! (UPDATE)
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — RSmitty Holding Me Hostage Edition
Just so everyone knows what is going on here:
Newark Film Festival
Not a paid announcement, but definitely want to point everyone to one of my favorite Delaware events -- the Newark Film Festival. It started yesterday and runs though the 17th with films running at the Cinema Center 3 in Newark. You can see all of the showtimes here.
The Speech Was A Game-Changer
Some survey data after Obama's primetime address to Congress on health care reform shows big jumps in popularity for President Obama and for health care reform. First the Daily Kos/Research…
The Trouble with Triggers
Tom Carper (and other Senators) have been hyping a "fall-back trigger" for implementing a Public Option for health insurance reform. The Public Option has strong progressive support and is one of the last big questions to settle in this process.
What “Balanced” Means Inside The Beltway
Glenn Greenwald has a must-read piece dissecting how journalists seem incapable of calling out one party for craziness without balancing out the criticism with a but they do it to…
Heckuva Job Bushie!
The median income in the U.S. decreased from 2007 to 2008. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between…