Posts by Delaware Dem

Republican Minority Leader Limbaugh shows the same empathy as Mike Protack, which is none: On his radio show Friday, Rush Limbaugh suggested that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) would be dead…

Quick, without looking anything up on the internet, answer this question: Who is your state Senator, state Representative, and County Councilman? And if you live in a city or a…

And Mike Matthews just fainted with dreams of being the First First Gentleman. But no, not our favorite local wingnut Christine O’Donnell.

Ed O’Donnell. Who? Precisely.

WDEL is currently running a story about a little known perennial candidate named Ed O’Donnell, who just “announced” that he is running for the Patriot Party’s (what?) nomination for President in 2012. Why the early start?

O’Donnell says one reason he’s starting his Presidential run now is that he wants to be ready in case the US government collapses like the Roman and British Empires and the former Soviet Union.

But, if the country collapses, will we have an election to get ready for in 2012? Just a minor detail I think Mr. O’Donnell overlooks. I digress. I have no idea who O’Donnell is. I have no idea what the Patriot Party is, and that is not unusual since there are hundreds of small crazy fringe third parties. So I googled O’Donnell. I found information on Rosie O’Donnell, which was quite unfortunate, but not much on an alleged presidential candidate named Ed O’Donnell, which I found quite odd, since, after all, WDEL has O’Donnell’s announcement as a top news story.

But then I found this interview with the Dartmouth University Press in 2004, when the prestigious candidate O’Donnell ran for the fifth time. You must read it in its entirety, because it is comedy gold. Perhaps that is where WDEL is going with its story, for I must confess I have only read the story and not listened to it on the radio.

Go below the fold for some excerpts. After reading it, I am convinced Ed O’Donnell is Liz Allen:

All politics is local. Yet, your average Delawarean probably cannot name their state Representative or Senator. They definitely cannot name their County Councilman. Sure, they can name their President, their…

Apparently not. From People For The American Way: In a letter released [Monday], all 41 Senate Republicans threatened to filibuster President Obama’s judicial nominees unless they were given veto power…

It has always been unbelievable to me that there could be seniors in high school who do not have a basic understanding of the governmental institutions, about the duties and…

I am amused, like Pandora, at the whole "Republican Minority Leader Rush Limbaugh" episode. It occurs to me that it is a win-win for everyone involved. Politico is reporting that…

The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, and the Journal Register, which is a regional network of suburban Philadelphia papers, like the Chester Daily Local News, the Trentonian, and…

Some say that we here at Delaware Liberal need to be reminded that we won the election. For it seems that since the election, we have been nothing but "shrill"…

A tip received from our friend Brian Shields: I just weighed in, and I lost some weight. I put out a bet on the success of next week's weight loss.…

Another week, another Delaware Blogosphere “crisis.” This time, Mike Matthews proclaims boldly that he is done with Delaware Liberal because I guess we were too critical of him, or mean. Oh the irony. He’ll be back. We are like the mob. Just when you thought you were out, we will pull you back in. Meanwhile, in an interesting turnaround from the events of last week, “John Feroce” and “FSP” are back commenting here… alot. See Matthews, it is impossible to resist us.

Now onto serious, or at least, non-meta posts from around the Delaware Blogosphere:

• Dana Garrett reports that states may stop executions to cut costs. That is an interesting side affect of the Great Depression II. Who knew that killing people cost more money than jailing them?

• Dana also discusses Governor Markell’s “Green is Gold” plan, and is somewhat critical:

But I am not sure I want a visionary heading up DNREC as much as I want a watchdog, a particularly tenacious and vigilant one. I want someone who focuses on cleaning up Delaware and keeping it safe, not someone also focused on growing its economy. I worry that a “green is gold” Secretary could find a conflict of roles between regulating polluters and looking out for Delaware’s bottom line.

I want both a watchdog on the old industries and a visionary for the new industries. I guess I am trusting that we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

• Redwater Lily gives us a recipe for homemade Artisan bread.

• Nancy Willing reports on DLC Tom Carper just missing being listed as one of the Senate’s Top 10 recipients of lobbyist and PAC money in 2006. He finished 11th. Darn. Better luck in 2012.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) $164,490 Individuals, $48,193 Lobbyists, $212,683 PACs