Posts by Delaware Dem

From hearing about three fathers with children, who also were police officers risking their lives for the public good, being gunned down due to the political hate engulfing a young…

A picture speaks a thousand words. Gosh, he looks like a normal young man. Like any twenty-two year old out there. From the Pittsburgh Post Gazzette: Richard Andrew Poplawski was…

Exhibit A: Former potential son-in-law and grandbaby daddy Levi Johnston went on Tyra Banks' show to proclaim that he and Bristol had safe sex "most of the time," and baby…

From the House Press Release: Calling this an opportunity to save taxpayer money and increasing voter participation, House Majority Whip Rep. Valerie J. Longhurst introduced legislation Thursday that would align…

Senators Durbin and Specter officially introduced this week that would publically finance congressional elections (small dollar donations allowed, which would be matched 4 to 1).

When folks realize that politicians were begging AIG execs for big-dollar cash at the same they were supposed to regulate them, they get pretty pissed off.

Yesterday, an organization called Change Congress launched a new tool to help citizens “whip” the vote for this bill by calling Congress. It was designed by some Google employees who volunteered, and it’s pretty neat.

Lawrence Lessig blogged about it on Huffington Post. So here is what you do. If you want public financing. If you really want to end corporate greed in our government, then call our wonderous congressional delegation at the numbers below:

Sen. Tom Carper: 202-224-2441
Sen. Ted Kaufman: 202-224-5042
Rep. Michael Castle: 202-225-4165

And this is what you say, if you are so inclined:

The long running hospital drama that premiered during my first semester as a college freshman is coming to an end tonight. I was a devoted follower up until the character…

So I am reading my digital copy of the News Journal this morning, and I happen onto this AP article by Mr. Calvin Woodward. As an aside, it must suck…

In a scene reminiscent of the attack on Fort Sumpter in 1860, outraged Sussex Countians have stormed those cool looking fortress towers along Route 1 in the Delaware Seashore State…

Tomorrow, Governor Markell will sit down for a "Blogger's Roundtable" with some of your hardworking Delaware Liberal contributors as well as other preeminent and well known Delaware bloggers to discuss…

While I may not agree totally with their methodology and definitions, PolitiFact does have an interesting site that has compiled about 500 promises that President Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress.

Here is a nifty chart they created to track promises kept.

Below the fold, you will see a HUGE list of promises kept, in the works, or stalled by others (i.e. Republicans). Meanwhile there are only three broken promises, which are:

No. 234: Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
No. 240: Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
No. 505: Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs officials

I quibble here. Obama created tougher rules, and harmed his administration as a result since he is having a hard time staffing it, so much so that waivers of those rules are now required. If you want to count those waivers as breaking the promise, then I suppose the promise is broken. But just technically speaking, the rules were put in place.

But I really doubt they know what the words really mean. And that is not surprising. John Dean on Countdown this week said that the current generation of Republicans basically…

...Michelle Bachmann should not be arrested immediately for treason or at the very least advocating and/or instigating a treasonous rebellion against the United States of America? She appeared on a…