Unstable Isotope
Opinionated chemist, troublemaker, blogger on national and Delaware politics.
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Senate Bill To Include Opt-Out Public Option
Harry Reid is holding a press conference starting at 3:15 to announce the details of the health care bill that will voted on by the Senate. Early reports say that the bill will include the opt-out public option. This is important because it will take 60 votes to remove the public option out of the […]
Monday Open Thread
Are you ready for Monday? Are you ready for Thursday’s Drinking Liberally at the Homegrown Cafe? Let’s talk about Faux News, since they can’t seem to stop talking about themselves. Faux deployed the blondes to whine about Faux News victimhood. There was the inexplicably popular Laura Ingraham on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopolous: Ingraham […]
Looking Ahead: What Are The Next Big Congressional Fights?
Health care reform is now entering the final phases of becoming a law – negotiation. Right now the big fight is what kind of public option we’ll get – triggered, opt out, robust (Medicare + 5) or level playing field. It’s certainly no reason to relax but let’s look ahead to what’s next on the […]
The GOP Plan Is?
Here is a really clever web ad put together by the DSCC spoofing the Mac vs. PC ads: The GOP plan is block everything, root for failure and ridicule success.
Prosecutors Go After Innocence Project Students
Northwestern University has become famous for its journalism class in the Innocence Project, where students research old crimes. Their work actually led to a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois when they showed a significant number of inmates on death row were actually innocent of the crimes they had committed. Now prosecutors want to […]
Weekend Open Thread
Thread it up! LOL! Another Republican push poll fail. So Faux News is the queen of whining victimhood. They are a real news station, they are! Maybe not so much… Friends and associates have encouraged him [Fox News founder and CEO Roger Ailes] to run, POLITICO reported earlier Friday. “Ailes knows how to frame an […]
Delaware Liberal Is Good For You
We at Delaware Liberal like to believe that we bring you a public service: Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds. The results suggest Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could potentially enhance brain function and cognition in older adults. […]
Late Night Video: Public Option Singers
Via Americablog, the Billionaires For Wealthcare interrupt a meeting of insurance industry lobbyists with a song:
Friday Open Thread
It’s Friday and it’s open thread time. That means your Friday is already halfway over! It’s also National Mole Day, a celebration of Avogadro’s number, 6.02 x 10^23 (the number of atoms in a mole). It’s celebrated from 6:02 AM to 6:02 PM on 10/23 every year. This link gives you some tips on how […]
Mike Castle, He’s Talking About You
Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY9) has been a real hero in the fight for health care reform. He has released a study that shows 151 current members of Congress receive Medicare, the dreaded government-run health care system, including 55 Republicans. All of these Republicans are opponents of the public option. Here is the list: Rep. Ralph […]
No War For Oil
Uh, what? I thought we were spreading freedom and democracy. Wait a minute… et in remarks to Congress yesterday, Pickens revealed that he is just as interested as ever in tying our national security to oil interests in the Middle East, suggesting that American oil companies are “entitled” to Iraq’s oil because we spent blood […]
More Like This Please
Will Al Franken become the Alan Grayson of the Senate? He’s already gotten 30 Republicans on record supporting KBR over rape victims. In this video he puts a health care reform opponent from the Hudson Institute on the grill: Franken: I want to ask you, how many bankruptcies because of medical crisis were there last […]
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