Archive for May 5th, 2010

Late Night Video

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 1 Comment

Continue Reading »

The Tea Party Effect Demonstrated

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 8 Comments

Yesterday was a day of congressional primaries in Indiana, North Carolina, and Ohio. While I don’t care to go into details about each and every one (although if you do, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post has a good wrap-up), there is an over-riding trend that I do want to take note of. For the […]

Continue Reading »

Donviti and Jason330 Sittin’ in a Tree

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 22 Comments

In a bolt out of the blue, Jason called me today and asked me to put up a podcast that he and Donviti put together on a variety of subjects. It’s like cats and dogs sleeping together.

Here are the “tags” that Jason asked me to include in the post (verbatim):

Continue Reading »

Wednesday Open Thread

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 14 Comments

The Wednesday edition of your daily open thread.

Continue Reading »

Question of the Day

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 19 Comments

Megan McArdle of the Atlantic has a revealing question: Can someone explain to me–hopefully using graphs, and small words–why Joe Lieberman is willing to share the precious blessing of American citizenship with Charles Manson, Gary Ridgeway, and David Berkowitz, but wants citizenship stripped from a guy who strapped some firecrackers to a bag of non-explosive […]

Continue Reading »

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show-Wed., May 5, 2010

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 3 Comments

Allow me to be the first to extend my congratulations to Monsignor Lavelle and Rep. Kovach. Yesterday, they earned the distinction of  being the only ones opposing legislation to enable victims of abuse by healthcare providers (Read: Br. Bradley) to file civil suits any time after the incident(s) occurred. Dave Wilson and Dan Short went […]

Continue Reading »

Morning Round Em Up

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 9 Comments

Good Morning Delaware Liberals and Happy Cinco de Mayo. Your Phillies won last night, as did certain Democrats and Republicans in last night’s primary elections.

Continue Reading »

Teabaggers’ Delicate Feelings

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 32 Comments
Teabaggers’ Delicate Feelings

Apparently teabaggers are up in arms because of a 2-month-old quote by president Obama where he used the term “teabaggers.” Jake Tapper gives us the quote in question: Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea […]

Continue Reading »

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 1 Comment
Happy Cinco de Mayo

Or as Arizona Republicans like to call it… Kristallnacht. Yeah, it would be a bad joke, but I am not joking.

Continue Reading »

Can We Blame Dick Cheney for the Oil Spill?

Filed in National by on May 5, 2010 3 Comments

According to William Galston of The New Republic, we just might be able to pin a good bit of the blame for the Deepwater Horizon spill on our illustrious…no, that’s not the word I’m looking for…despicable former Vice President. There’s no single smoking gun, or rig, as it were, but there is a collection of […]

Continue Reading »