Archive for May, 2011

Andrew Staton expected to run for new Senate seat.

Filed in Delaware by on May 23, 2011 85 Comments

Andrew Staton, a Rehoboth Beach realtor and chairman of the 14th District Democratic Committee, announced today on his Facebook page that he is “considering a run for the new State Senate Seat covering Dewey, Rehoboth, Lewes, and Milton.”

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The Responsibilities of the Democratic Electorate

Filed in Delaware by on May 23, 2011 5 Comments

The need to purge our party of people that don’t take their responsibilities to the people of Delaware is an unending job and it takes a concentrated effort. We have to often choose our battles so that we can win a few rather than lose a bunch of them. In 2012, we will again be in a target-rich environment.

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If We Can’t Have the Records, He Can’t Have Two Jobs.

Filed in National by on May 23, 2011 14 Comments

Senate President Pro Tem Anthony DeLuca must voluntarily release his employment information as requested under FIOA. Failing that, he must resign.

The General Assembly must ban, once and for all, the practice of double dipping: no legislator may hold a second state job.

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Monday Open Thread

Filed in National by on May 23, 2011 24 Comments

More horribly deadly tornadoes, a flabbergasted Harold Camping, Pawlenty’s campaign for truth, and the GOP’s tenuous hold on reality.

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The Cannon Fodder Wing of the Democratic Party

Filed in National by on May 22, 2011 60 Comments

While DL has hosted its fair share of intraparty pie, knife and bomb throwing events, we’ve never dug into the real dynamics of those arguments.

This Digby post nails it.

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No Promo Homo in Tennessee – Updated

Filed in National by on May 22, 2011 9 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the “No Say Gay” bill wending it’s way through the Tennessee legislature. Well, George Takei, better known to those of us of a certain age as Mr. Sulu from the original Star Trek series, is taking on the homophobes and giving people a way around the bill, if it should become law.

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On Deficits and Debts; or Don’t Believe the Entitlements Hype

Filed in National by on May 22, 2011 4 Comments
On Deficits and Debts; or Don’t Believe the Entitlements Hype

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities continues its yeoman work on documenting where the federal Government’s deficits AND Debts come from. Even though most of the readers here likely get this story, it has yet to make much of a dent in the media narrative, which continues to flog the business about entitlement spending being the thing that is running our fiscal futures off of the rails.

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More NJ Truthiness Watch — Hypocritical Finger Wagging at the Obama Campaign

Filed in Delaware by on May 22, 2011 4 Comments
More NJ Truthiness Watch — Hypocritical Finger Wagging at the Obama Campaign

The NJ Editorial writers have decided to wag their confused (and often hypocritical) finger at the Obama re-election campaign for poking fun at the whole “birther” business and raising money from that amusement.

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Top Four Anthony DeLuca Security Protocols

Filed in National by on May 22, 2011 16 Comments

To keep the pack of Yakuza hit men that out are to get Anthony Deluca off the trail, the state of Delaware has instituted an extreme set of security protocols to protect our state’s most important resident.

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Mitch Daniels will not run for President

Filed in National by on May 22, 2011 8 Comments

Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., said Sunday he won’t run for president because of family concerns, narrowing the field but making a wide-open race even hazier.

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So it’s 6 pm, and you’re still here…

Filed in National by on May 21, 2011 8 Comments

So what now? What if you one of this idiots who spent their life savings on this viral non-event? Gawker provides you with some options.

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Weekend Open Thread

Filed in National by on May 21, 2011 0 Comments

The weekend edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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It’s the End of the World .. on Channel 9.

Filed in National by on May 21, 2011 1 Comment

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