Posts by Delaware Dem

Last night I said to Bitterique that I hoped we have heard the last from that evil, racist, wretched disgusting female dog named Geraldine Ferraro.   I. WAS. WRONG.  “If he…

Some recent news on two political stalwarts, on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, and their struggles with brain cancer.  First, the honorable Senator Ted Kennedy: A Kennedy spokeswoman said…

Note: This is the 4,000th story on Delaware Liberal, at least according to WordPress.  Congrats all!

This morning’s NJ article has a lot of choice quotes from current and retired lawmakers concerning the power of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Thurman Adams.

The article essentialy describes Thurman Adams as a mad dictator, with enough power to rule Delaware according to what pleases or displeases him.   Consider these passages of the article:

The epitaph for open-government legislation read “Jan. 11, 2007 — Introduced and Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate.”

The Senate Executive Committee is better known as Thurman Adams’ desk drawer, a place where controversial legislation goes to die.

Senate Bill 4, filed on the first day of the legislative session and intended to increase public access to governmental meetings and records, spent two years yellowing and crumbling away there.

Adams can kill bills.

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Delaware is just in love with it now. From the News Journal: A Frankford company that is promoting turbines as a way to use fast-moving water to generate electricity has…

I will have more to write about the News Journal's article on Senate Pro Tem Thurman Adams later this morning, but I had to just post about this picture.  I…

Barack Obama’s announcement of his VP choice could come any day now.  With the Olympics starting on Friday, and ending the weekend before the start of the Democratic convention, this coming week seems like an opitune time for him to announce.  Further, it would end John McCain’s silly tantums, at least in the press’s eyes, as they will have something new to report on.

So who will it be?

The press has been talking up the following names:

Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Hagel, Wesley Clark, Tim Kaine, Sam Nunn, Ed Rendell, Bill Richardson, Kathleen Sebelius, Jack Reed, Chris Dodd

The political prediction markets and buzz have four candidates on the short short list: Evan Bayh, Tim Kaine, Joe Biden and Kathleen Sebelius.

Those is what the conventional wisdom says, but I think it is wrong.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-u5mDZfrLw[/youtube] Newsweek: In the middle of John McCain's dopey Britney & Paris attack ad, the announcer gravely asks of Barack Obama: "Is He Ready to Lead?" An equally good question…

From the Dialogue Delaware column in the NJ: Delaware Grapevine -- the standard-setter of Delaware's political comment lines -- was lauded by everyone from politicians to fellow bloggers, all of…

I have seen this commercial every hour on nearly every channel I watch over the past three days.    The ad buys seem to be on both Philadelphia air and Comcast…

Courtesy of Sam Loomis on Daily Kos: THE LINEUP - Meet The Press: John Kerry (D-MA) and soon-to-be-irrelevant Joe Lieberman (R-McSame). Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd and Judy Woodruff have very…

...the kids will play. Liberal Geek and Jason have gone on vacation. And I am reminded why I closed down my solo blog and joined a community blog!   Posting all…

Ted Blunt officially ended his campaign for Lt. Governor Friday, by filing the appropriate paperwork with the Department of Elections.   Sure, he suspended his campaign months ago, but his name…

Progressives in Delaware have had three main goals over the last couple of years.   One was to get our state to pursue alternative renewable energy.  Another was OOGA - or…