Archive for 2010
Wednesday Open Thread
What’s happening tonight? I’m going to Kildare’s Pub in Newark for the 3rd Delaware Tweetup. It’s an opportunity to meet all those people you send your 140-character thoughts to in 3-D! I hope to see you there tonight.
Chris Coons is In
From the inbox:
I am pleased to announce to you, my friends and long-time supporters, my candidacy for Delaware’s open seat in the United States Senate. In the coming weeks, I will formally kick off my campaign with formal announcements in each county.
UPDATED: More Obama Q&A
Tomorrow morning, the president will be doing a televised Q&A with the Senate Democratic caucus.
Two-Faced John McCain
McCain’s duplicity is so obvious that even the mainstream media noticed the disconnect and left McCain’s spokeswoman scrambling for an explanation.
The RNC Explains The Political Gender Gap
The RNC has a plan on how to recruit women candidates: “Women sometimes need a little more handholding, or they need their friends to help them make a decision. And by our going in and talking to them and recruiting and educating and training them to either get involved in a campaign or become a […]
Republican Idiocy, Continued
Yesterday pandora posted about the preliminary release of the R2K/dKos poll of Republicans. Today the full poll was released (full results). There are some disturbing results: GAYS Should openly gay men and women be allowed to serve in the military? Yes 26 No 55 Not Sure 19 Should same sex couples be allowed to marry? […]
I Have No Idea What They Are Trying To Prove
Last year, professional idiot and accused felon James O’Keefe went around with a camera trying to get a wedding license in Massachusetts to marry another man. Ben Wetmore, the 28-year-old conservative activist whom James O’Keefe called a “mentor,” has stayed out of the headlines since it was revealed that he housed O’Keefe and the other […]
Groundhog Day Open Thread
Happy Groundhog Day! Do you feel like you’ve opened this thread before? Groundhog Day is not really a holiday that I understand. According to weather records, Punxsutawney Phil has an accuracy rate of 39%. Hmmm….sounds like guessing. FWIW, here’s the forecast, straight from Punxsutawney Phil’s very own website: Phil’s official forecast as read February 2nd, […]
The Party Of Old Ideas
You have to give it to the Republicans. They aren’t really the Party of No, they are the Party of Old Ideas. Just one year after the spectacular failure of conservative governance, the GOP is ready to recycle its worst ideas: In the name of deficit reduction, House Republicans are going back to the Social […]
Republican Idiocy
Wondering what the Republican base looks like… Via TPM, Via Kos on Twitter: A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republican respondents nationwide, gives an interesting peek into the psyche of the minority party’s base. • 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached. • 63% think Obama is a socialist. […]
Delaware Green Matters Forum
This Wednesday begins a 5-week forum series focusing on multiple environmental topics at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark (www.uufn.org) from 7-9pm.
The first topic is:
- February 3: Environmental Policy and You
Monday Open Thread
Is it already Monday? The weekend just flew by again, and I had a three day weekend. Let’s get started with a Monday open thread. Will Bunch, blogger at Attytood (Philadelphia) gives a preview of his upcoming book Tear Down This Myth about Ronald Reagan: But they don’t have to. Here are three ways that […]
DADT Repeal
The New York Times covers the discussions about the DADT repeal in the Obama administration: But it was in Oval Office strategy sessions to review court cases challenging the ban — ones that could reach the Supreme Court — that Mr. Obama faced the fact that if he did not change the policy, his administration […]
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