Archive for July, 2012
Tuesday Open Thread [7.17.12]
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The Obamas got on Kiss cam last night during an Olympic Exhibition game at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.
Bullock is getting the Endorsements
Rev. Chris Bullock was unanimously endorsed recently by the Wilmington Democratic City Committee. And yesterday, he got the endorsement of one of his former rivals for the office of New Castle County Council President, that of Bill Dunn. Bill Dunn left the race for County Council President once Speaker Gilligan announced his retirement from representing the 19th Representative District.
I am curious on our readers’ take on the County Council race, especially as it plays into the County Executive race? Personally, I am undecided between Taschner and Bullock. Bill Dunn was going to get my vote. Of Renee and Chris, I have met with both of them over the years and I like both of them. What are your thoughts?
QOTD — Should Penn State Football Get the Death Penalty?
Buzz Bissinger has written one righteous condemnation of the Penn State football program and Penn State administration in this week’s Daily Beast. He suggests the NCAA impose a 5 year ban for Penn State’s football program — something that would certainly be meaningful to Penn State as a punishment.
Joe Arpaio Press Conference Findings Leaked
Joe Arpaio will prove this afternoon that President Obama is a member “The Babylonian Brotherhood” which aims to enslave humanity. In addition to Obama their ranks include most world leaders, the British Royal Family, Jay Leno, Larry Hagman and the entire cast of the Golden Girls. The evidence will show that members of the brotherhood are secretly 7 feet tall reptiles who drink blood. The reptiles came to Earth from a “fourth dimension” to mine for precious metals, and must engage in murder, kidnapping and drug parties to keep their human appearance.
The facts are indisputable and will likely thrust Romney into the lead in his race to other-throw the usurper from the fourth dimension.
Crane on DART.
I wonder if I am just noticing them or if these ads on DART buses are a new phenomena for Mitch Crane’s campaign. Bravo!
Earth to Pires…Earth Calling Alex Pires
How can an Indy candidate for Senate come out of the blocks and force me to agree with Tom Carper minutes into a campaign?
Alex Pires, who filed Monday to challenge U.S. Sen. Tom Carper as an Independent Party candidate, quickly opened a surprising new line of attack against the Democratic incumbent, questioning Carper’s health.
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Campaign Make-believe
Got to love elected officials who lie about who’s supporting their re-election effort.
Senate Dems talking tough on not extending Bush tax cuts
This cockamamie Democratic backbone thing seems to be spreading.
There is absolutely no way President Obama or Democrats will permit the Bush-era tax cuts on high incomes to be extended, a party leader declared in a speech Monday.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the No. 4 Democrat and senior budget member, unequivocally promised her party will shoot down GOP efforts to prevent tax rates on incomes above $250,000 to rise by 3.6 percent to Clinton-era levels, even if it means letting rates go up on middle incomes.
“If Republicans won’t work with us on a balanced approach, we are not going to get a deal,” Murray said in Washington, D.C. at the Brookings Institution. “Because I feel very strongly that we simply cannot allow middle class families and the most vulnerable Americans to bear this burden alone.”
According to Romney’s own 2002 testimony, he worked for Bain after his 1999 retroactive retirement
Trying to prove that he was a Massachusetts resident and eligible to run for Governor, Romney testified that he worked at Bain after he now claims to have retired retroactively. If it sounds confusing it is because when you try to cover two lies with three new lies and a felonious report to the SEC, it gets confusing.
If it sounds confusing it is because when you try to cover two lies with three new lies and a felonious report to the SEC, it gets confusing.
Regular Americans Losing Their Political Voice
Using the conservative mantra that Money = Speech, this inforgraphic shows just how much ordinary Americans are being drowned out of the conversation and our Government. Because those with the money can simply buy the policy they want, increasingly, what Americans clearly want to happen is simply not being done.
DISCLOSE Act Vote Tonight
The full name is Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act. It is meant to rebalance the books that have been utterly upended by Citizen’s United, allowing unlimited spending by corporations. As specifically allowed for in Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion for Citizen’s United, nothing stops Congress from asking for greater transparency for those donations.
Monday Open Thread [7.16.12]
I am moving the Polling Report to the open thread today because I didn’t have enough polls for a full polling report today and I wanted to post these polls before they got stale (they are all from Friday and over the weekend) and I didn’t have anything for the Open thread, so I am killing two birds with one stone.
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