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Karl Rove To Appear On Rick Jensen’s Show Today

Filed in Delaware, National by on December 9, 2009 1 Comment

Bush’s brain Karl Rove is going to be on famous climate scientist Rick Jensen’s WDEL show today at 1:00 p.m. WDEL is soliciting questions through twitter. Send your questions to @jensen1150wdel. Or you can put your questions here and one of us will try to send them.

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Moving Toward Foreclosure in Delaware?

Filed in Delaware by on December 8, 2009 8 Comments

A few months ago, I was composing a post on the new foreclosure program that brought together a number of non-profits and the Delaware courts for the purpose of avoiding foreclosures.  Unfortunately, that post still sits in my “drafts” list due to my stupidity. But today, I am bringing you some of the details of […]

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Appoquinimink Referendum Today

Filed in Delaware by on December 8, 2009 1 Comment

If you are in Appoquinimink School District, you have a unique opportunity today. You can vote for a school district referendum that doesn’t increase your taxes. The polls are open. Get out there and vote.

For more information on the referendum, check out the district’s website here.

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PPP: Carney Win Almost Guaranteed

Filed in Delaware, National by on December 7, 2009 27 Comments

While PPP polled the Delaware U.S. Senate race, they also polled the open U.S. House seat. Carney holds a commanding lead, and has somewhat low name recognition: Former Lieutenant Governor John Carney leads announced Republican candidate Fred Cullis by an overwhelming 47-24 margin and holds a solid 44-32 lead against better known potential Republican candidate […]

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Question

Filed in Delaware by on December 4, 2009 6 Comments

Why didn’t anyone tell me it was going to snow tomorrow?  😉

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Cullis to fellate Tea Baggers.

Filed in Delaware by on December 2, 2009 14 Comments

Whoa. There is just way too much innuendo in that title for even me. Cullis will be speaking to the 9/12 teabaggers tomorrow in Milton. Now, unless the GOP is just going to give up the House seat, there is little to no chance that Fred Cullis will be the Republican nominee. So he might as well become the fringe candidate by going to a fringe meeting. Hell, this may all be orchestrated anyway, so that when Charlie Copeland gets into the race he appears downright sane by comparison.

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Carper’s Latest Compromise Plan

Filed in Delaware, National by on December 2, 2009 2 Comments

Harry Reid has a really difficult task, Democrats have decided to lay down all their weapons and craft bills that need 60 votes to even get a vote. Tom Carper is apparently the go-to guy for compromise in the Senate health care debate. Some details of Carper’s latest trial balloon are now emerging – it […]

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Conservative Senators Love Mike Castle

Filed in Delaware, National by on November 21, 2009 2 Comments

Anyone who thinks Mike Castle would be some kind of moderate thorn in the side of the conservative GOP Senate minority leadership is fooling themselves. Among those senators who reported giving to Castle in October were Thad Cochran (Miss.), whose Senate Victory Fund PAC gave $10,000; Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), whose OrrinPAC donated $5,000; Pat […]

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Senate Health Care Reform Bill Unveiled

Filed in Delaware, National by on November 19, 2009 11 Comments

Last night the Harry Reid unveiled the Senate health care reform bill, called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The whole bill can be read here (warning PDF) and a 2-page summary can be read at this link (PDF). The CBO score for the bill was released yesterday, the bill costs $850M and covers […]

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Republicans are assembling a STELLAR Field.

Filed in Delaware by on November 18, 2009 7 Comments

On top of the news that the GOP has enticed the highly sought after Republican juggernaut Fred Cullis into the race for Delaware’s open Congressional seat, we receive word from Delaware Politics that …. gasp …. Former Delawareans for McCain leader and 17th Republican District chair Kevin Wade is considering a run for the seat. […]

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Biden Leads Castle In A Just-Released Poll

Filed in Delaware, National by on November 16, 2009 32 Comments

Whoa, big news! All-but-announced Senate candidate Beau Biden leads Mike Castle in a new poll by 5%. This is bad news for Mike Castle: In a hypothetical match-up of the candidates, Democrat Beau Biden leads GOP challenger and Delaware Congressman Mike Castle by a margin of 45 to 40 percent; 8% are undecided and 6% […]

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After The Deluge

Filed in Delaware by on November 15, 2009 32 Comments
After The Deluge

Tropical Storm Ida has left her mark on Delaware. The question we have is will we learn from Ida’s destruction or will we keep on doing the same old, same old. WHYY reports that it will cost some $15-20 million to replenish the beaches. The News Journal reports that over $100 million has been spent […]

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Biden To Appear on The Daily Show

Filed in Delaware, National by on November 15, 2009 2 Comments

Pen this in on your calendar, Vice President Joe Biden will appear on The Daily Show Tuesday night. Last week we had soon-to-be-retired Congressman Mike Castle on Colbert talking about cocks and this week, Biden will say something stupid as well.

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