Archive for April, 2012

Atlas Smirked

Filed in National by jason330 on April 2, 2012 • 12 Comments

The law of unintended consequences is a cruel mistress. I wonder what transparently partisan Republican a-hole, Antonin Scalia, is going to have to say if/when the health insurance industry in America collapses and is replaced by a nationalized single payer system?

Monday Open Thread [4.2.12]

Filed in Open Thread by Delaware Dem on April 2, 2012 • 4 Comments

Tomorrow there are primaries in D.C., Wisconsin and Maryland. And then after that, the next primaries are on April 24, which serves as a sort of “Greater Northeast” primary. The states holding elections that day are our own first state, Delaware, as well as Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York.

Romney is going to win Maryland and D.C., and in a few weeks he will win New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. For Santorum to continue any semblance of a campaign, and for him to have any reason at all to continue, he should really win Wisconsin, and he absolutely has to win Pennsylvania. If he does not win his home state, then he should be dragged from the race kicking and screaming.

So, we are down to Frothy’s Last Stand. It was fun while it lasted.

Republicans Losing Women Voters

Filed in National by pandora on April 2, 2012 • 5 Comments

President Obama has emerged with an impressive lead in swing states around the country — thanks to women voters abandoning the GOP in droves, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll showing President Obama leading among women voters in the top dozen battleground states by a whopping 18 points — greater than the 12-point gender gap he won with in 2008.

DL Tracking Poll Results — Auditor Tom Wagner (Round 2)

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 2, 2012 • 0 Comments

Last month, Tom Wagner scored a 55% approval rating, making him by far the most popular Delaware Republican alive today. His disapproval was 43%. Our new poll finds his approval to have fallen 9 points to 46%, while his disapproval rating has risen by nearly the same margin of 8 points, or to 51%. I think that makes him still the most popular Republican in Delaware.

From the files of Dr. Liberal

Filed in Delaware by jason330 on April 2, 2012 • 38 Comments

Here is an old “Ask Dr. Liberal” from the files. If you have any new questions for the Doctor, put them in the comments section of this post.

Monday Daily Delawhere [4.2.12]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 2, 2012 • 5 Comments

James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia

Filed in National by jason330 on April 1, 2012 • 77 Comments

It is probably too dreary today to watch this TED TALK again, but perhaps not.

“The immersive ugliness of our everyday environment in America is entropy made visible.”

Oil company subsidies, Zimmerman, Romney, our desperate County Sheriffs and teabag zealots clawing for meaning in the brutalist wasteland of talk radio and Walmart parking lots – the thing that ties all of our modern psychopathies together is our shitty architecture.