cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Pre-Filed Legislative Business
Ten bills from the House were pre-filed this week and assigned to House Committees: HB 75 introduced by Helene Keeley — From the website: “House Bill 75, sponsored by Rep. Helene M. Keeley, D-Wilmington South, would allow competent adults to receive visits in a hospital, nursing home or nursing facility from any person they choose. […]
Congratulations Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis!
Lost in yesterday’s excitement was the fact that Hilda Solis was confirmed (finally) to be Secretary of Labor by an 80-17 margin. In case you don’t know much about her, see this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWuQzJk6ERs[/youtube] This is really good news.
Reactions to President Obama’s Speech
Because you guys will be here before I can in the morning. I thought that this was an impressive speech. Focused on the economy and getting the domestic house in order, he was able to lay out the seriousness of or collective situation while hitting pretty high notes on our ability to get past this […]
Obama’s Budget Speech Tonite
Lots of speculation about the speech to be given to a joint session of Congress — and lots of it about tone (which I don’t entirely get) — but here is a good summary of the the expectations (at least from the venues I read) cribbed from Matt Yglesias: Obama wants the 2013 deficit to […]
Cape Henlopen Gets Progressive Dem Candidate for School Board!
From the press release: Meyer Persow of Rehoboth Beach has announced that he will seek the at-large seat on the Cape Henlopen School Board in the upcoming May 12 election. In announcing his candidacy, Persow listed three primary issues for his campaign – promoting alternative strategies for teaching, increasing school safety, and working to decrease […]
Legalizing Marijuana More Popular Than Republicans
And, apparently, more popular than than Republican policies, too — Chris Bowers does the work (see Open Left for links to where the polling comes from): It should also be noted that, at 40-41% (ed. note: Rasmussen and CBS polls respectively) support, legalizing marijuana is more popular than all of the following: * Opposing stricter […]
Don’t Even Think About Bailing Out These People
…not only couldn’t they even begin to pay back what they owe their fellow citizens for the BushCo disaster; but are you really going to employ somebody with that kind of failure on their resume? See here: “This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, including numerous former political appointees,” said […]
Now THIS Is A Populist Smackdown
And pointed at one of the FoxNoiseHeads too: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-nLS6FJtSM[/youtube] More like this, please!
APRI Legislative Conference Update
APRI writes to let us know that the lunch speaker for this event is now scheduled to be John Carney. We gave you the details about this conference here, and definitely hope that some of you can go. It is this Saturday, 21 February 2008, starting at 8AM at Ezion-Mt. Carmel Church, 800 N. Walnut […]
Bush Lawyers to Be Held Accountable?
This article from Michael Isikoff in Newsweek provides a glimmer of hope: “An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety among former Bush administration officials. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department’s ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility(OPR), confirmed […]
Talking Back
So what if it is snowing out and you are passing through an area where you know there is a camera monitoring your activity? Well, you talk back and tell its minders what you think about it: (Warning: Picture after the jump may be NSFW!)
If You’re Wrong, Get Out of the Way
This advise to the GOP seems perfect today: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This is an incredible piece by Rachel Maddow, but here is the money bit:
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