Day: December 1, 2011

Governor Markell is still unopposed right?

Dear Jason330, Delawareans do not give up, particularly when it comes to fighting to get people working now and creating the strongest possible public schools to ensure our state’s future. We stay focused, and we keep fighting, to move forward together, sometimes against profoundly difficult odds. Because of your support in the past, I have had the honor of helping to lead that fight the last few years – to give new hope and new light at shuttered manufacturing facilities, to help small businesses through our LIFT program, and to be responsible stewards of public resources.

David Duke was arrested in Germany while he was addressing a group of about 100 German citizens "eager to hear [his] message of heritage and freedom." No doubt, Duke was spreading his neonazi hatred. However, in Germany, it is a crime to be a Nazi, and it is a crime to deny the Holocaust. Perhaps David wants to return to America. I hear the Republicans are looking for a suitable Presidential candidate to fit their views.

The Republican Governors Association "met with top GOP message-man-turned-Yoda Frank Luntz to learning how to wiggle out of uncomfortable moments whenever questioned about the politically inconvenient Occupy Wall Street movement." Luntz' handy-dandy guide looks like a mirror image of what Democrats should be saying:

President Obama, like most Presidents in this “Tough on Crime” era of the last 40 years, has been a veritable teetotaler when it comes to using his Pardon Power. Presidents, from Johnson to Obama, have erred on the side of their own political interests in not appearing soft on crime instead of showing mercy or righting pasts wrongs. Until this year. Over the last 12 months, the President has pardoned 22 people. What is behind this new found love of the really only unchecked power the President has?