Archive for January 20th, 2011

Socialized Health Care Before There Was Socialism

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Who would have thought that the Founding Fathers were a bunch of Socialists! Teabaggers around the country are eating crow tonight. They just found out that our Founding Fathers, those gentlemen who teabaggers place on a pedestal and worship every night before going to sleep, mandated that private citizens purchase health insurance. In July of […]

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Governor’s State of the State Address Open Thread

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Governor Jack Markell will be delivering the yearly State of the State address from Leg Hall starting at 2pm today.

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Thursday Open Thread

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The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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From The Department Of Inappropriate Analogies

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Rick Santorum thinks it’s appropriate to compare being African-American to being a fetus.

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Republicans Discover Senate Hate

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Rpeublicans are now complaining that their kick kids off insurance and increase the cost of granny’s drugs bill won’t get a vote in the Senate. Bless their hearts.

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 20, 2011

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If you haven’t guessed the overarching theme of today’s State of the State address by now, then you haven’t been paying attention. At every given opportunity over the past few months, Gov. Markell has stated in numerous permutations that he wakes up thinking about jobs and goes to sleep thinking about jobs. Accordingly, in my […]

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