In Which We See a Castle vs Biden Senate Race Becomes the CW

Tom Schaller over at Five Thirty Eight takes a long look at the possibility of a Republican taking the Senate seat previously held by Barack Obama. He cites an article written over at the Rothenberg Political Report notes that a seat held by someone who has gone to the White House (either President or VP) has flipped 50% of the time, but since the numbers involved are pretty small it is hard to know what that means. But before he gets to looking at the landscape of the Senate race in IL, he stops in Delaware first:

Lobbyists to the IC’s Office?

On 30 July 2009, the Delaware Insurance Commissioner's office sent out a Press Release announcing their "new" initiative for "the formation of a new revenue generating division within the Department of Insurance entitled the Bureau of Captive and Financial Insurance Products". There was a subsequent Press Release, this time working hard at making the case that this is an economic development task for the state. A bit of small print at the end of the first Press Release caught my attention:

Now This is How It’s Done

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has an interview with CNN where she is asked about the idiot John Bolton -- and she just laughs: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Uk8mUW7_8[/youtube] When they bring up their…

Is This All There Is?

...and the usual repub thuggery, of course. But Chuck Grassley took to the floor to for a ritual WTF? moment, and Jon Stewart deconstructs the tale Grassley so ineptly tries…

Doof of the Day

"If you like the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government."