Archive for February, 2010
Thursday Open Thread
As of writing this, I’m still waiting for this latest snowstorm, the “snowicane” to start. It sure was nice of the snowstorm to hold off until everyone gets to work to start! Today’s open thread is a “governors behaving badly” version of your open thread. Let’s roll! It looks like the Gov. David Paterson bombshell […]
Rasmussen Polls Delaware
Take it with a boulder of salt, but according to the poll, President Obama has a 51% approval rating, versus a 48% disapproval rating; Governor Markell has a 61% approval rating, versus a 37% disapproval rating; and Castle leads Coons 53% to 32%. 8% prefer some other candidate (O’Donnell?? Anti-Coons or Pro-Biden sentiment?) and 8% are unsure.
Health Care Summit Thread
Might as well put up a thread. Begins at 10:00. If you’re watching please add your thoughts in the comment’s section. I hope to catch a lot of this.
Fiscal Conservatives Don’t Want To Cut Spending
Conservatives do a lot of posturing about the deficit, which they only discovered the existence of on January 20, 2009. I remember the good ol’ days of the early Bush presidency when the problem was the surplus. Well, conservatives are apparently extremely upset with the deficit now, but taxes are still bad (in fact we […]
NPR Destroys Republican Talking Point
The media coverage of the health care reform debate has been quite frustrating because the coverage has not covered the substance of the debate. It’s been the typical “on one hand, on the other hand” type of coverage which has allowed Republicans to get away with telling outrageous lies about health care reform (death panels!!!!). […]
Wednesday Open Thread
Are we getting another mini-snowpocalypse? Who angered the weather goddess again? While we wait for more snow to come, let’s open this thread. Ooooh, delicious – rightwing slap fight: Wow. So, Glenn Beck’s CPAC keynote speech on Friday was apparently so powerful it united Jon Stewart, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin…against him. I’m not sure […]
Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform
If you are part of MoveOn.org, you may already know about this. Today starts a Virtual March to pressure Congress to enact real health care reform. It is a quick and easy process:
1. Go to the MoveOn March Page
Cheney Lied About CIA Torture Effectiveness
In Cheney’s mind, he’s a courageous patriot who’s not afraid to get things done. Cheney thinks that terrorists will be scared of the U.S. if only we’d torture more and the only way to get info is to throw accused terrorists (some of whom may be actually innocent) into Guantanamo (which has special terrorist repellant […]
Impressions on Coons
Jason330 attended the meet and greet with Chris Coons last night, and he offers his impressions of the candidate and his strategy.
The Slavery Apology
What happened before does have an affect on what is now. We fought a civil war to end slavery and hundreds of thousands died in that effort. The civil rights movement 100 years later ended overt state discrimination. And 60 years later we have elected ourselves our first black President. That is progress. And I tend to think righting the wrong is an inherent apology in and of itself. Further, I am a progressive, so I tend to look forward in working to make the country better, rather than backward to what we were before.
That’s Our Castle
Castle flip flops on the jobs bill, again, and now he has come out against the filibuster in the Senate. If Mike Castle were a real leader following his principles, he would immediately call on his supposedly future Senate Republican brethren to end their unprecedented obstructionism. I say, if he were a real leader with principles….
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