Archive for 2010
The GOP Needs New Talent
And I’m not talking politics. I’m talking about how Republicans love (and steal) the music of liberal performers. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore (R-CA) got burned for using for using altered-lyric version of Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” and “All She Wants To Do Is Dance” for his campaign’s Web ads. David Byrne is suing […]
Castle Previews His November Strategy
In November, Mike Castle plans to bash Chris Coons as a fiscally irresponsible, tax-raising Democrat.
Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even.
This is the title of Frank Rich’s column from yesterday’s NYT, which, as always, is a Must Read. Like Rich, I find the emphasis on getting some anger from the President a lazy and childish response from the media. A media who perpetually is looking for the ratings-boosting human drama rather than trying to figure out how,exactly, something like this could possibly happen. So instead of trying to figure out how the legendarily dysfunctional Bush-era Minerals Management Service was still largely dysfunctional this far into the Obama Administration, we get plenty of ink on how “angry” the President is.
The Pentagon Being Asked to Tighten Its Belt — Finally
This is good news — this is Not Enough — but this is genuinely a good direction.
According to the NYT today, SecDef Robert Gates is asking the entire DOD to find billions of dollars in cuts to help fund the wars that they are in:
The Right on the Verge of Another Defeat in the Culture War
NYT columnist Charles Blow points us to an eye-popping new survey by the Gallup organization, a survey that shows new and convincing majorities of Americans who no longer hold moral objections to gay and lesbian people. This is what a specific piece of bigotry losing its power looks like:
Arizona Proves What We All Knew…
… It’s about race. Maybe it’s time to admit that large chunks of America are in the hands of unreconstructed racists and vulgar idiots, and that the popular election of a black man as president just might’ve pushed these furious, economically doomed old white people into a final rage that is going to end very, […]
Has Castle Lost the News Journal?
The News Journal hits Castle again on his earmark hypocrisy, this time on the editorial page.
Melanie George Shows How It’s Done
Legislating, that is. This is a case study in how a good legislator gets good (if not optimal) legislation passed. Rep. Melanie George (D-Bear) appears to have begun the inevitable reversal of short-sighted and draconian drug laws in Delaware. Legislation requiring minimum mandatory drug sentences was bullied into law by Cultural Warrior Know-Nothings Jane Brady, […]
The Idiot Frank Knotts
I meant to get to this earlier this week, but work always gets in the way. Frank Knotts of Delaware Politics wants to impeach President Obama. Yes, that is not news, since Frank Knotts and indeed most Republicans have wanted to impeach the President before he even took office for the crime of being a Democrat, or being black, or both.
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