Food Bank Donations Down

We are having our War on Christmas party on this Friday at CW Harborside at 7PM.  We will be collecting donations for the Food Bank of Delaware to help them…

Monday Open Thread

It's Monday so let's get started on our open thread. How's your holiday shopping going? Despite my doubts about the new fitness shoe craze, I bought some. I've been wearing…

Jacob Hacker Endorses Medicare Buy-in

Even though apparently Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson are now bad-mouthing a deal they helped to make, Jacob Hacker was in the news last week endorsing the Medicare Buy-In. Hacker being pretty much the Godfather of the Public Option. The complete interview on this (including others) is here on the PBS website, but this piece from Hacker is important:

The Blame Obama Brigade

This weekend seemed to be filled with lots of discussion all over the internet re: Matt Taibbi’s piece giving President Obama’s economic team a not undeserved beat down. I like Taibbi’s writing a lot and the fact that he doesn’t do conventional “objective” reporting doesn’t bother me (but the repetition of bad data does bother me, like the so-called “cost” of all of the bailouts being 23.7 trillion), but I still find it hugely remarkable that there are plenty of people on the left who are very comfortable blaming Obama for not being liberal or progressive enough – as if that is all it would take to get major legislation through Congress.

The GOP Abandons Rhode Island

Rhode Island is gearing up for a governor's race in 2010. And this is one election result I can predict with certainty, the Republicans will not win this race .…