Month: September 2011

Yeah, Sarah Palin isn't running.

"Does a title shackle a person? Are they -- someone like me, maverick, you know, I do go rogue, and I call it like I see it, and I don't mind stirring it up.... is a title and is a campaign too shackling? Does that prohibit me from being out there, out of the box, not allowing handlers to shape me?"

President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Meanwhile, Republican plans would contract the GDP by 1.7%.

So last night Governor Christie gave a speech and took questions from the parishioners at the Cathedral of Saint Ronald, otherwise known as the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Instead of giving Shermanesque statements denying any run for President this year, which he has given in the past, this time he was more deflective and coy. Especially after one questioner basically got down on his knees and offered his firstborn daughter as sacrifice.

In one of the more idiotic statements offered by a politician in some time, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue said suspend congressional elections for two years "so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election," the Raleigh News and Observer reports.

The Deltones, a cappela group from the University of Delaware that was chosen to compete with 15 other groups on a new reality show on NBC called "The Sing-off," were a hit among the judges last night. They have advanced forward to the next round. The Deltones have 15 members, 10 alumni and five current UD students. The winners of “The Sing-Off” will get $200,000 and a recording contract.

If you can't make PDD's meeting with Senator Coons in New Castle tonight, then perhaps you can attend the Public Service Commission's hearings on Bloom Energy this week. The PSC hearings this week are tonight at the Cannon Building Hearing Room, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware at 7 p.m. and tomorrow at the Carvel State Office Building Auditorium, Mezzanine Level, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington, Delaware, also at 7 p.m.

One of the issues we will be discussing with Senator Coons tonight is the American Jobs Act, the DADT repeal and the prospect for the repeal of DOMA in the future, and his opinions on the budget and the horribly named Super Congress. If you can't make it tonight, what questions do you have. If you can make it, please join us at the special meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware at 6:30 p.m. at the Delaware Democratic Party Headquarters, located at 19 E. Commons Blvd, in New Castle. PDD meetings are open to all like-minded voters.

In addition to endorsing the racist ravings of a Sussex County disk jockey, DE GOP Chair John Sigler promoted the gathering on the GOP state website as a Republican event. It was in fact a fundraiser for an ultra-conservative PAC. How "ulta-conservative" is the PAC in question? So conservative that Joe Booth is too liberal for them.