Archive for June, 2012

Goodbye Frieda, and thank you.

Filed in Delaware, National by Delaware Dem on June 20, 2012 • 9 Comments

Well known Delawarean environmental and peace activist Frieda Berryhill passed away today. She was well known in her efforts opposing nuclear power and weapons. She had turned 90 years old earlier this year. We are all a little less without her. I am going to post what appears to be an article about her that was posted on the UnplugSalem.org.

Contemptible Congress

Filed in National by MJ on June 20, 2012 • 1 Comment

When I was a wee lad, I had the utmost respect for Congress. I was in awe of my then Congressman, Byron Rodgers (D-Denver) who was the essence of a public servant. I was good friends with Congresswoman Pat Schroeder and Congressman & Senator Tim Wirth (who was a neighbor). That all changed after I moved to DC and began working for the government. I discovered that many of the 539 Members of Congress (including the delegates from DC, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands) didn’t really give a damn about their constituents. It was all about getting face time on TV to make it seem as though they were doing something.

This afternoon, Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, pushed through a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in “Contempt of Congress.” Better add my name to that resolution, Issa, because I hold you and the Teabag 112th Congress in the utmost contempt. Obstruction is the motto of this Congress.

An eating contest hero with a tragic flaw

Filed in National by jason330 on June 20, 2012 • 3 Comments

In a world rife with injustice and poverty, eating contests are inherently despicable. Especially eating contests held in the United States, the greasy, bloated pig of nations. I’ve always given Philly’s Wingnbowl a pass though. Already aggressively pitiful, I thought that there was no way an eating contest could bring more shame to the urine soaked, mumbling, punch-drunk place.

…anyway, El Wingador sold cocaine. …

Wednesday Open Thread [6.20.12]

Filed in Open Thread by Delaware Dem on June 20, 2012 • 32 Comments

The lies of the lying liar named Willard Mittens Romney, pathological liar extraordinaire, are so legion and numerous that we can fill every open thread from now until the election and have room to spare, only going on what he has said so far in the campaign. So that is exactly what we are going to do.

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 20, 2012

Filed in National by El Somnambulo on June 20, 2012 • 12 Comments

Three things happened yesterday that illustrate everything that is wrong with the Delaware General Assembly. Screw the defenseless b/c they don’t have money to fill your reelection coffers; essentially bribe a candidate into dropping out of a race by passing special interest legislation especially for him; and quell a legislator’s road rage by getting those pokey drivers out of his way. Some days, I just hate this (non-paying) job.

GOP’s relentless war on the poor and middle class continues to impress

Filed in National by jason330 on June 20, 2012 • 15 Comments

How many times have you heard some broke-ass teabagger quote this gem from memory?… “Almost 70 percent of the federal revenue is provided by the top 10 percent of taxpayers now. Between 45 percent and 50 percent of Americans pay no income tax at all.”

While we all know the trick, and we clearly see the clumsy slight of hand switcharoo mid-statement from “federal revenue” to “no income tax”, this zombie economic lie goes on and on.

How often have you heard the GOP leadership take the high ground when it comes to protecting America’s wealthy from the rapacious greed of the nation’s poor? Here is Mitch McConnell on the topic:

(CBS News) The United States tax code favors lower income Americans too much already and should be restructured to make it fairer to upper income earners, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said.

WTF? …

The Polling Report [6.20.12]

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on June 20, 2012 • 7 Comments

So, I have decided to start counting Rasmussen’s polling in our Electoral College Map. Why? Well, they haven’t woken up and decided to be a nonpartisan and unbiased polling outfit. But as Markos Moulitsas says, looking at Rasmussen gives us a sense of the worst case scenario, for every Rasmussen poll adds about 4-5 points on average to the Republican total. So keep that in mind. If Obama is down by 3 in a Rasmussen poll, he is really up by 1 or 2. If he is up by 4, it is really a blowout in his direction.

So by doing that, we get a changed map, and you will see that below. The map will now include recent Rasmussen polls in Missouri (changing it to a Lean Romney state), Iowa (changing it to toss up status), Wisconsin (changing it to toss up status) and Michigan (moving it to Lean Obama status). Meanwhile, new polls in Colorado and Arizona moves the former in Lean Obama category, and the latter to toss up territory.

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [6.20.12]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on June 20, 2012 • 2 Comments

Things Black Presidents are Not Allowed to do….

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on June 19, 2012 • 5 Comments

From Greg Pinello’s “I have the Floor” blog. Here are just a few:

1. Deliver State of the Union without being heckled
2. Complete Rose Garden remarks without interruption
3. Call for a joint session of Congress (the NERVE!)

The Irony: Republican Opposition to their Own Individual Mandate Idea will lead to Single Payer.

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on June 19, 2012 • 33 Comments

To understand the irony of our current situation, and what is about to happen once the U.S. Supreme Court either strikes down the Individual Mandate or the entire Affordable Care Act itself because it cannot be severed from the Individual Mandate, we must first go back to 1993.

President Clinton campaigned on reforming the U.S. Healthcare system to bring universal coverage to all Americans. The core element of his “Health Security Act” was a plan to place the burden of insurance coverage on employers across the country, large and small. In other words, it was an employer mandate.

Republicans gathered from far and wide and labeled this as an attack on small businesses, and offered a counter proposal.

Guess what it was?

The Georgetown bin Laden

Filed in Delaware by jason330 on June 19, 2012 • 46 Comments

Joe Hurley:

Last week, Councilman Vance Phillips was the victim of a bin Laden attack. The terminology which will always live in American ignomy, refers to a spineless coward who sits in the darkness, and deliberately, and gleefully, inflicts pain on innocents in order to accomplish his deranged agenda. Pakistan had its bin Laden. Sussex County has one as well. …