Posts by Delaware Dem

"No one gets to define Frank Knotts except for God and Frank Knotts" --- Frank Knotts, proving that third person speaking is not just for Bob Dole anymore. For background on this statement, apparently he is being criticized for being a RINO now, which blows my mind.

The New Castle County Council is scheduled to vote tonight whether to rezone 40 percent of the Barley Mill Plaza office complex to allow for a 1.6 million square foot commercial complex that will include a 450,000-square-foot shopping center. This rezoning is a "compromise plan" and is "necessary" to prevent an even larger mixed use complex from being built on the former duPont complex by Pam Scott's Stoltz Real Estate Partners. Some say Stoltz buffled with the threat of a larger complex, and Kovach fell hook, line and sinker for it.

An Elizabeth Warren money bomb and new poll numbers. Skynet is self aware. And are we in the great era of peace?

I would like to send a shout out to the Delaware Democratic Party for finally updating their website and adopting the the national Democratic logo. Good job Joe Aronson and Sarah Rivin!

A new Gallup poll finds Mitt Romney barely leading Herman Cain for the GOP presidential nomination, 20% to 18%, with Rick Perry at 15%, Ron Paul at 8%, Newt Gingrich at 7% and Michele Bachmann at 5%. The Republicans usually don't have an actually competitive primary race. Usually, at this point in the election calendar, the national polls show the eventual nominee leading the race by 20 or more points. So Romney is weak, and a new ad by the Perry camp will really hurt....

A video showing some kids watching The Empire Strikes Back for the first time, at the moment of the reveal. Warning, contains SPOILERS (and if this applies to you, for shame).

Coons said filibuster reform failed because other Democrats said we will be back in the minority at some point in the future, maybe even as soon as 2013, and the filibuster and secret holds are a tool we want to use against President Perry, Speaker Cantor and Majority Leader Corynn as they repeal Obamacare, end Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, Health and Human Services, and the EPA. But, last night, Harry Reid did something to upset that apple cart, and I say it is a good thing, and Democratic cowards like Carper will say it is a bad thing.

The jobs picture gets a little better. The private sector added 137,000 private sector jobs. The public sector cut 34,000 jobs in the tragically stupid push for austerity. The numbers for July and August are also revised up to reflect 99,000 unreported new private sector jobs. The economy has now created 1,074,000 jobs this year, 1,343,000 jobs in 2010, for a grand total of 2,417,000 since the end of the Great Recession. But we lost 9,079,000 in the Great Recession. So we need to create 6 million more jobs just to get back to where we were in 2007.

So a community of supposed Americans are upset that the Vice President of the United States has stated that he will prevent the early and unwarranted release of a convicted spy for a foreign government who breached America's national security some 25 years ago and endangered all Americans everywhere. In other times and circumstances, those supposed upset Americans might have been labeled traitors. At the very least sympathizers. For a fact, the spy, if he or she is an American citizen, is a traitor to America and deserves at the very least life in prison. But we live in a time where allegiance to Israel is more important than allegiance to America.