Archive for 2010

Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.7%

Filed in National by on February 5, 2010 13 Comments

The number of employed Americans has risen by 541,000 since the last Jobs report, while an additional 20,000 jobs have been lost. The jobs report from November has been revised up to show a gain of 64,000 jobs. But the news is not all good, as the continued revisions to previous jobs reports of 2009 […]

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O’Reilly Runs Away From His Base

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The Research 2000 poll commissioned by Daily Kos has a lot of Republicans worried. Republican leaders know that the extremism of the Republican base will turn voters off so that’s why so many Republican leaders have tried to dismiss the poll. Witness Bill O’Reilly and Karl Rove: As David Anderson confirmed right here on Delaware […]

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SNOWGASM!!!!!

Filed in National by on February 4, 2010 66 Comments
SNOWGASM!!!!!

Delaware Liberal will be providing complete coverage of the End of the World, er ah, the Blizzard of 2010, or ah, Snowpocalypse II: The Return, or as I like to call it …..

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Castle Votes With Party and Against Fiscal Responsibility

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Mike Castle has voted against fiscal responsibility today by voting no on restoring the Pay-Go Rules that would require lawmakers to find ways to pay for proposed spending increases in entitlement programs or for any tax cuts by offsetting them with higher taxes or reduced spending elsewhere in the budget. The Pay-Go Rules were in […]

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Democrats Introduce Bill To Repeal Health Insurance Anti-Trust Exemption

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Two House Democrats are introducing legislation to repeal the anti-trust exemption of health insurance companies. More like this, please.

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Those Evil Republican Indianapolis Colts

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I always suspected that the supporters of the Colts were Republican, for only people so evil so as to be Republican could support the equally evil Irsay family, which ripped the hearts of out of fans of the Baltimore Colts over twenty five years ago. A new Public Policy Polling survey found that there is a noticeable partisan divide over support for the Colts or Saints in Sunday’s Super Bowl.

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Senate GOP Considering Suicidal Filibuster of Jobs Bill

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What is the #1 issue in America? JOBS. What is the Senate voting on on Monday? A JOBS BILL.
What will the Senate GOP being doing on Monday? FILIBUSTERING THE JOBS BILL.

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Does Castle Want Our Seniors to Die?

Filed in Delaware by on February 4, 2010 5 Comments

Wisconsin GOP Representative Paul Ryan is drafting the GOP Budget proposal. So far we have learned he plans to privatize both Social Security and Medicare in order to cut spending in the proposal, because we all know that the GOP can never cut defense spending and/or raise taxes. Ever. So we are going to find out pretty soon just how much of a lemming Mike Castle really is.

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Thursday Open Thread

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It’s Thursday and it’s the day after the Delaware Tweet-Up. I liked the opportunity to meet some of our readers and I hope some of my Twitter friends will read the blog. Let’s open this thread!

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“It’s Worth Thinking About”

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At yesterday’s Q&A with Democrats Obama delivered a line that should have every Democrat sitting up and taking notice.  If you watch the video below one thing stands out – Obama is not laughing. “There was apparently a headline after the Massachusetts election. The Village Voice announced that Republicans win a 41-59 majority. It’s worth […]

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The Sand Castle

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I am not one to regularly criticize exaggeration, overstatements and hyperbole, because I often engage in it myself as a literary device. But with Celia Cohen, her articles are, to steal from Vice President Biden, a noun, a verb, and a ridiculous overstatement or comparison.

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Who Is Afraid Of Demon Sheep?

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Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard and McCain surrogate, is running for U.S. Senate from California. Apparently the Republican primary is turning into a real knock-down, drag-out fight and Fiorina is facing a challenge from at least two Republicans running from her right. So, Fiorina just released a web ad critical of one of her primary opponents.

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Did Biden Screw Over Democrats In The Senate Race?

Filed in Delaware by on February 3, 2010 14 Comments

Asked on MSNBC whether Beau had bowed out of a Senate campaign because the political terrain was just too unfavorable for Democrats, the vice president said that’s not how things went down: “He basically made that decision at Thanksgiving. It’s a question of how it got rolled out.”

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