Month: October 2011

Comedian Stephen Colbert incorporated his nonprofit "Anonymous Shell Corporation" in Delaware last month. He has since changed the name of the company to the "Colbert Super PAC SHH Institute." Colbert is making fun of anonymous corporations that now can form one week, donate millions of dollars the next week to a candidate, and the dissolve the next day, all as a result of the Supreme Court's horrible decision in Citizens United.

Occupy Delaware is having a public meeting tonight to gauge interest in and possible next steps for a Delaware event to support Occupy Wall Street. For info come inside....

El Som will be on the Al Mascitti Show this morning at 10 am to discuss his 2012 Legislative Reform Package. Please sure to listen in and comment here. He will also be participating in a discussion tonight at the regular monthly meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware at 7 p.m. at the Democratic Party Headquarters, 19 E. Commons Blvd., New Castle. The PDD has invited him and representatives from the Delaware Coalition of Open Government, the League of Women Voters, and Common Cause to discuss legislative, ethics and lobbying reform.

Dear Congressman, I listened to your conference call "town hall meeting" and I was amazed by how many times you mentioned the magical effects that a payroll tax cuts could have on our economy. As a small business person, I'd like to disabuse you of this notion that payroll tax cuts stimulate hiring. Unlike you and every member of Congress who is in love with this idea that payroll tax cuts are the most awesome thing in the world, I am someone who pays payroll taxes, and I can assure you that payroll tax cuts are practically invisible to both the employee and the small business employer. The only thing that will stimulate hiring is increased demand. No sane business person is going to hire new employees absent increasing demand for their product or service. I want to like you, but you have been brainwashed and are spouting nonsense. Please stop it. Consider this, if tax cuts are the job creating machine that you make them out to be, where are all the jobs? Since George W. Bush's first term we've been feed a steady diet of magical tax cuts and look at the employment paradise that the tax cuts have created. Stick to talking about infrastructure. You mentioned that in passing. But you mentioned infrastructure spending once for every five times you mentioned payroll tax cuts last night. Flip that ratio around if you want to continue enjoying the support of Delaware's small business community. Sincerely, Jason330 PS. The "Town Hall" Conference Call format is a travesty. Just saying.

This town hall is complete shit. It is right wing frames-a-go-go. He is talking about how much he supports the cat food commission's Medicaid cuts.

Chad Livengood's article in the News Journal this weekend let us know that our Lt. Governor posts comical and witty status updates and blogs on Facebook and his blog. Matt then goes and proves him right.

Amanda Knox is free from those evil Italian courts. I didn't follow the case so closely that I know what evidence pointed to her guilt or exonerated her. I just know she was charged with killing her roommate, so the question is: would you live with her? Would you date her?

"What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label 'Liberal'? If by 'Liberal' they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer’s dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of 'Liberal'. But if by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal', then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal'" --John F. Kennedy

My gut tells me that Christie just might get in if he thought it was going to be a cake walk to the nomination, like his mere presence would clear the field for him. If it is going to be a struggle to get the nomination, he will stay out of it. Well, a new Washington Post/ABC News shows Christie running in fourth place if he were in the race. Romney leads with 21%, followed by Rick Perry and Herman Cain at 14% and then Christie at 10%.

Congressman John Carney will hold a telephone town hall meeting tonight to answer questions from Delawareans about the issues important to them. You know the teabaggers downstate will flood the phone lines, so be sure to sign up to call in by 4 pm. You have to either call Carney’s Wilmington Office at 691-7333 or his Washington, D.C. Office at 202-225-4165. You will receive a phone call shortly before the start of the town hall that will allow you to participate. The town hall gets underway at 7:25 p.m.

Paul Krugman: "If fear of future regulations and taxes is holding business back, as everyone on the right asserts, why didn’t the Republican victory in the midterms set off a surge in employment?" Damn good question.