2010 – Page 157 – Delaware Liberal

CNN Features Mike Castle as a GOP Stimulus Hypocrite

By cassandra_m February 19, 20108 Comments

This is from Rick Sanchez's show Wednesday, I think -- Mike Castle and the ARRA stunt check is featured early in the segment:

GOP Recovery Act Hypocrites

By cassandra_m February 18, 20108 Comments

You can see Mike Castle with a Special Guest Hypocrite role in his picture accepting a stunt check for an ARRA project in the first few seconds of this video:…

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope February 18, 2010121 Comments

It snowed last night! Why do you hate us Weather Goddess? In other news, it's actually Thursday and the week is more than halfway over! Are you ready for your…

Delawareans Hate Their Jobs

By cassandra_m February 18, 20101 Comment

That is according to a recently released survey called the State of Well-Being (pdf) that has surveyed Americans and presented state-by-state reports on how people in that state view their lives. This is part of a long-term eefort being produced by Gallup to provide some measure of American's health and well-being. And according to this study, Delaware ranks dead last among states for Work Environment, going down from last year's ranking of 38th among the states. Here's a summary of the data:

I Would Like To Thank Health Insurance Companies For Making My Point

By pandora February 18, 201028 Comments

I'm certain everyone has heard of Anthem's 39% rate increase in health insurance, but did you realize raising rates is all the rage? Actually, if you're one of the individually…

Warm Up Your Dialing Fingers

By Unstable Isotope February 18, 201023 Comments

Next week President Obama will convene his bipartisan health care summit. It's expected that sometime in next few days, the Senate bill + reconciliation sidecar will be introduced. The reconciliation…

Mt. Vernon Statement

By Unstable Isotope February 18, 201024 Comments

Conservatives had an event for the launch of the CPAC conference where they unveiled a new document called the "Mt. Vernon Statement." This is a statement of conservative principles that…

A Big Picture Look At the Stimulus One Year On

By cassandra_m February 18, 20105 Comments

And it is -- on the terms it was passed -- a definite success. David Leonhart wrote this must read article at the NYT on Tuesday, that starts like this:…

Late Night Video — Paul Krugman

By cassandra_m February 17, 20105 Comments

This is a lecture that Paul Krugman gave at MIT recently -- The Economic Meltdown: What Have We Learned, if Anything? Krugman tried to explain how we got here AND why it seems so hard to wrap our minds around strong policy to fix it. In many ways, he thinks that we never really learned the lessons of the Great Depression, including that for all of the risk that bankers put us in, the greatest risk may just be a government policy apparatus that will be happier with a political fix rather than a systemic one.

CNN Features Mike Castle as a GOP Stimulus Hypocrite

GOP Recovery Act Hypocrites

Thursday Open Thread

Delawareans Hate Their Jobs

I Would Like To Thank Health Insurance Companies For Making My Point

Warm Up Your Dialing Fingers

Mt. Vernon Statement

A Big Picture Look At the Stimulus One Year On

Late Night Video — Paul Krugman

Regular Folks

Rally for Health Care Reform

Lions and Tigers and… Witches? Oh My.

CPAC Childish Behavior Separates the Boys from the Girls