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Thursday Open Thread
Ezra Klein: “Right now, the protests are at a tipping point. The unions and MoveOn.org are mounting a sympathy march this afternoon. Van Jones’s Rebuild the Dream and Russ Feingold’s Progressives United are blasting messages of support. Prominent elected Democrats such as Rep. John Larson, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus; Rep. Louise Slaughter, ranking member on the House Rules Committee; and Sen. Jeff Merkley have all applauded the movement. What these Democrats and liberal-activist groups are looking for is something similar to what conservatives found in the tea party: an opportunity to recharge and rebrand.”
Scott Brown just stepped in it.
So we all know that Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts posed nude in Cosmo in his youth. Last week, during a Democratic primary debate this week, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren was asked how she paid for college. “I kept my clothes on,” Warren replied. “I borrowed money.”
This morning, on a right wing radio show, Scott Brown was asked to respond to that, and he laughed and said “Thank God.”
BCBS Doesn’t Pay Income Tax?
Oh the little things you learn every day. In stating that he wants state funds invested in Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Delaware to stay in Delaware when or if Blue Cross merges with the Pittsburgh-based Highmark, Attorney General Beau Biden mentioned that Delaware has exempted Blue Cross/Blue Shield from paying income taxes for 75 years because of its work.
I think that should end, don’t you?
Wednesday Open Thread
Comedian Stephen Colbert incorporated his nonprofit “Anonymous Shell Corporation” in Delaware last month. He has since changed the name of the company to the “Colbert Super PAC SHH Institute.” Colbert is making fun of anonymous corporations that now can form one week, donate millions of dollars the next week to a candidate, and the dissolve the next day, all as a result of the Supreme Court’s horrible decision in Citizens United.
Discuss Legislative Reform on WDEL at 10 and at the PDD Meeting at 7
El Som will be on the Al Mascitti Show this morning at 10 am to discuss his 2012 Legislative Reform Package. Please sure to listen in and comment here. He will also be participating in a discussion tonight at the regular monthly meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware at 7 p.m. at the Democratic Party Headquarters, 19 E. Commons Blvd., New Castle. The PDD has invited him and representatives from the Delaware Coalition of Open Government, the League of Women Voters, and Common Cause to discuss legislative, ethics and lobbying reform.
Matt Denn’s Funny.
Chad Livengood’s article in the News Journal this weekend let us know that our Lt. Governor posts comical and witty status updates and blogs on Facebook and his blog. Matt then goes and proves him right.
Question of the Day
Amanda Knox is free from those evil Italian courts. I didn’t follow the case so closely that I know what evidence pointed to her guilt or exonerated her. I just know she was charged with killing her roommate, so the question is: would you live with her? Would you date her?
Tuesday Open Thread
“What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label ‘Liberal’? If by ‘Liberal’ they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer’s dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of ‘Liberal’. But if by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal’, then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal'” –John F. Kennedy
Today is Christie Day
My gut tells me that Christie just might get in if he thought it was going to be a cake walk to the nomination, like his mere presence would clear the field for him. If it is going to be a struggle to get the nomination, he will stay out of it. Well, a new Washington Post/ABC News shows Christie running in fourth place if he were in the race. Romney leads with 21%, followed by Rick Perry and Herman Cain at 14% and then Christie at 10%.
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