Unstable Isotope
Opinionated chemist, troublemaker, blogger on national and Delaware politics.
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The Haiti Disaster Brings Out Teh Stupid
We’ve already heard about the disgusting statements of Pat Robertson about the Haiti earthquake disaster. Rush Limbaugh also couldn’t help making an ass of himself about the Haiti crisis. On his radio show yesterday Limbaugh said the earthquake in Haiti will play right into Obama’s hands by allowing him to play up his “compassionate” and […]
Scott Brown: Tea Party Who?
Conservative centerfold and MA-Sen candidate Scott Brown now says he’s never even heard of the Tea Party movement. On Wednesday, Republican senate candidate Scott Brown told reporters in Massachusetts that he was “unfamiliar” with the “Tea Party movement,” despite receiving the endorsement of a key national Tea Party group which is currently raising money for […]
Wednesday Open Thread
It’s Wednesday and today’s open thread has a theme: polling. A new poll by CNN shows that Americans are in line with Obama’s political ideology. Even in most generic poll question imaginable, teabaggers are not the majority (CNN, Jan. 8-10, +/- 3%): In general, would you say that President Obama’s views and proposed programs for […]
California Prop 8 Trial
Right now in California a trial to determine the constitutionality of Prop 8 is just underway. Prop 8 is the proposition that overturned a court ruling in California allowing same sex marriage by defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. One of the interesting notes of the trial is that the team […]
Tuesday Open Thread
It’s Tuesday and it’s open thread time. Today’s open thread has a theme: humor. I’ll give you two examples. Example #1, from Daily Kos, the new presidential timeline: According to Rudy Giuliani, Mary Matalin, and Dana Perino: 1/20/1993 to 1/20/2001: Bill Clinton 1/20/2001 to 9/10/2001: George W Bush 9/11/2001: Bill Clinton 9/12/01 to 12/21/2001: George […]
Mourning A Hero
I think hero is a word that is overused in our society. A hero is not someone who can throw a football far or a well-off person with a chronic disease. In my mind, a hero is an ordinary person who does an extraordinary thing, usually at great risk to themselves. One person who fits […]
More Tea Party Rifts
A group called “Tea Party Patriots” has put together a National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. Sarah Palin is the headline speaker and tickets are pricy, at $549 per person. Part of the reason for the high price is that Sarah Palin is charging $100,000 speaking fees. Not all activists are thrilled about the convention, […]
Monday Open Thread
Well, it’s Monday much to my dismay. Why do the weekends go so fast? Let’s get started with an open thread. For all those Republicans bashing Harry Reid try to remember the difference between his remarks and those of Trent Lott. Trent Lott said the following, at the 100th birthday celebration of Strom Thurmond: When […]
From The Delusion Files
Rod Blagojevich in an interview with Esquire: “It’s such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of shit and phonies, but I was real, man — and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the fuck? Everything […]
Why Not?
I hope the DSCC is not unilaterally disarming in the U.S. Senate race. Democrats ousted Delaware’s popular longtime Republican Sen. William Roth, Jr. in 2000 after his age became an issue in the race but they are leery about playing the age card against GOP challenger Rep. Mike Castle (Del.). There is evidence that Democratic […]
Sunday Papers: For Your Reading Displeasure
The New York Times does a profile of Fox News’s Roger Ailes. Here’s an excerpt to tempt you: In the fall of 2008, Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, went to his boss, Rupert Murdoch, with two complaints: he had heard that Mr. Murdoch was considering endorsing Barack Obama for president in The New […]
Check Out My Family Values
A PPP poll released last night showed family values teabagger candidate Scott Brown ahead in the MA-Sen special election. While Democrats wring their hands and try to work up some enthusiasm in their electorate, this picture that Scott Brown did for Cosmopolitan resurfaced: Brown was just 22 when he won Cosmo’s “America’s Sexiest Man” competition. […]
The Clueless Harry Reid
Making the rounds today is revelations from a new book called “Game Change” by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. One of the revelations is about Harry Reid: On page 37, a remark, said “privately” by Sen. Harry Reid, about Barack Obama’s racial appeal. Though Reid would later say that he was neutral in the presidential […]
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