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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On Bipartisanship
Ben Smith at Politico captures the state of play as well as anyone at this stage: … “bipartisanship” is as much a brand as any conceivable Washington reality. These House Republicans, as is traditional when a caucus shrinks, are more conservative, and in safer seats, than their predecessors. The notion that they’d wind up anything […]
SB 20 — Reapportionment of the General Assembly
Kudos to are due to Senator Blevins and Representative Kowalko and all of the co-sponsors of this bill to create an The Redistricting Commission for the State of Delaware — an independent commission to supervise the reapportionment of the GA after the next census. Really, this approach to reapportionment is all kinds of steps in […]
Wingnut Talking Points Smackdown — The Recovery Program
This edition outsourced to Tommywonk. Read the whole thing, but here is an interesting bit: Left out of that argument is the question of how we got to the largest deficit in history. Hundreds of billions spent on a six year war in a foreign country have not provided much economic benefit here at home. […]
A Real CBO Report on the Stimulus!
Just don’t tell these guys. And, as Think Progress notes, even the so-called intellectuals in the conservative room don’t know that there is a real report. According to this, AEI denizen Phil Levy writes a blog post today proudly claiming to be one of the Bad Faith Economists that Krugman has called out recently. Note […]
And the Media Gets Played By the GOP Again
Remember that recent CBO report that media types and Republicans have been breathlessly citing as an analysis as to why the stimulus package won’t work? Well, it turns out that no such report exists: Reports of a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, showing that the vast majority of the money in the stimulus […]
I Want Some TARP
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGfQk9XXm24[/youtube] Liberalgeek will be leading the Delaware Premiere of the singing of this little ditty at the Food Bank tomorrow. Make sure you know the lines AND the dance! (kidding, LG!) (h/t Calculated Risk)
Science Blogging! – Origin of the Species Edition
John Whithead, a London-based evolutionary biologist is blogging On The Origin of Species chapter by chapter. Remember it is Darwin Year — he would have been 200 years old this year, and Origin is 150 years old this year. So grab your Darwin and follow along. If you’ve never read him, this might be a […]
Americans Want Infrastructure Spending
Frank Luntz, of all people, positively gushes over the results of a new poll he’s run about the concerns of Americans on infrastructure spending: Consider this: A near unanimous 94% of Americans are concerned about our nation’s infrastructure. And this concern cuts across all regions of the country and across urban, suburban and rural communities. […]
HB 1 Open Government Update
This bill was voted out of the House Administration Committee on Wednesday with 3 On the Merits votes. The NJ expands on the discussions, with Speaker Gilligan making it clear he doesn’t want to entertain Amendments that will weaken the bill: The lead sponsor of the proposal, House Speaker Robert F. Gilligan, D-Sherwood Park, said […]
Breaking: Lisa Diller for 5th NCCo District Rep!
Heard earlier this evening that Lisa Diller was selected to run for this office in its Special Election. Unstable Isotope confirms this, and notes that there was a decent amount of wrangling over the process, but Lisa was chosen unanimously. This is really good news. Lisa Diller’s website. Tell us if you have more information.
SB 7 Eminent Domain Bill Update
Quick update on the status of this bill: It was reported out of the Small Business Committee in the Senate with 1 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits (What is the difference between Favorable and On Its Merits?), and seems ready for full Senate debate and vote. There is word of a pending amendment by Harris […]
Why EFCA Matters
T.A. Frank wrote a very informative article in the recent issue of the Washington Monthly that details the story of trying to organize a union at a Rite Aid distribution center in CA. The Rite Aid organizers filed their union authorization cards with the NLRB, setting the ground for an election. And then things got […]
Newark, DE First to Use Cars to Power Grid
This is very cool — one of the many challenges to making the electrical grid more efficient is figuring out a way to store electricity. The current grid does not, but you can see there might be production and cost efficiencies in being able to store electricity made when it is cheapest or most efficient […]
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