Posts by jason330

I've been looking at some old posts and found this gem from December 0f 2005.

Delaware GOP on Cloud 9 While the rest of the GOP world is moping around or angrily lashing out at 55% of Americans, the Delaware GOP thinks everything is SWEET! This is from an actual Delaware GOP email that they sent out today.

"Positive News you don't normally hear from Iraq"

I just heard about this happening at Amazon’s Middletown facility. Can anyone spot the problem?

Oh how I am going to enjoy the day when CRI has to drop its phony non-profit status and reveal that this phoney-baloney "grassroots" operation is funded by two big checks (one from Foster Stephen Friess and one from the Koch Brothers).

I love that whenever he interprets the ministry of Jesus for the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, Antonin Scalia can be heard saying, "Fuck this guy."

In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

Not a primary opponent - just a primary. That's news, right? And who did this "high-ranking Democratic official" huff the news to? Celia, of course.

As a high-ranking Democratic official huffed, "We cannot afford not to primary him, because if we don't, we will lose that seat, because there are a lot of Democrats like me who won't vote for him." No Democrat has come forward to run yet, but it may just be a matter of time.

As a high-ranking Democratic official huffed, "We cannot afford not to primary him, because if we don't, we will lose that seat, because there are a lot of Democrats like me who won't vote for him."

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People on welfare are black. People who use food-stamps are lazy, and probably vote for Democrats because they like getting free cell phones. The esteemed "Doctor" Stapleford of the CRI said just that in a News Journal Op-ed once, so it must be true. (Except it isn't and Stapleford, as we all know, is a outright fraud.) As it turns out, white people get welfare (most of it). And many of those white people who get most of the welfare, are rural, broke-ass, angry SOBs. Who do they vote for...? Alex Henderson has the skinny. [...]

Harry Reid could not have been more clear. If the GOP uses the filibuster to prevent the three vacancies in the DC circuit from being filled, the nuclear option would be in effect. The filibuster would go away. It was Mitch McConnell's choice. The choice he made throws the the federal judiciary (currently evenly balanced, with 390 GOP-appointed judges and391 Democratic-appointed ones) to the Democrats. President Obama now has 90 federal court vacancies to fill with simple majority votes. I'll let Kos take it from here: [...]

I made the mistake of wandering over to see what kind thoughtful critique of the ACA Duffy and Hube might have mustered by now. Take it away Duf...

In spite of a well financed campaign to make teachers out to be parasites on society, Laurel parents support their teachers.