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Congratulations Senator Franken!

By cassandra_m July 7, 20096 Comments

Sworn in by VP Biden: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47765G3v9nM[/youtube] Love all the applause at the end.

Dan Froomkin Hired By Huffington Post

By El Somnambulo July 7, 20091 Comment

The Washington Post's self-inflicted loss is the Huffington Post's gain. Glenn Greenwald at Salon is reporting that Dan Froomkin has been hired by the Huffington Post. Seeing as how his…

Tell Tom Carper to Support the Public Option

By xstryker July 7, 20092 Comments

We all know that Senator Carper has corporate health care lobbyists in his ear and corporate money filling his campaign coffers. But don't any of you DARE give up this…

The Department of Law Will Save Her — More Palin Follies

By cassandra_m July 7, 200927 Comments

So the Quitta from Wasilla is all over the news this AM and finds herself answering a question from an ABC interviewer wanting to know why she would step down…

Deep thought

By Donviti July 7, 200923 Comments

People that don't have kids shouldn't pay a school tax. It's not fair to make them pay.

Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope July 7, 200911 Comments

In other news... The 4th of July Tea Parties were a bust. Senator Cornyn and Governor Perry get booed at the Austin Tea Party. Al Franken will be sworn in…

Tuesday Morning Quick Hits

By Delaware Dem July 7, 200920 Comments

Longtime Delaware civil rights activist Littleton Mitchell, 90, has died in a car accident. Mitchell was a Tuskeegee Airmen and served for 30 years as president of the state's NAACP…

Federal Eye Highlights Sen. Kaufman

By Delaware Dem July 6, 20094 Comments

I was interviewed today by Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post's Federal Eye column for a story on our junior Senator, Ted Kaufman. Kaufman caught the Federal eye by his…

Quote of the Day

By nemski July 6, 20091 Comment

Representative Thomas Perriello (D-VA) said after the cap and trade bill passed: There’s got to be something more important than getting reelected. If I lose my seat, and that’s the…

Bringing Teh Stoopid

By nemski July 6, 200927 Comments

She wants to give our children the same lifestyle we had --- not a better one. Oh wait, that's not it, she said the Earth was 6,000 years old. Facepalm.…

Breaking: Pfeiffer Retires as Finance Secretary, Guv Proposes Eliminating Department

By El Somnambulo July 6, 200941 Comments

Governor Markell has just announced a proposal to eliminate the Department of Finance, and to distribute the Department's responsibilities among other State agencies. Secretary of Finance Gary Pfeiffer, who recommended…

Deep thought

By Donviti July 6, 20096 Comments

Poor people need to be taxed into having less kids. They are a drain on our public school system and this will keep them from gaming the system.

The Lone Wolf Argument Doesn’t Hold Up When It Comes To Republican Racism

By pandora July 6, 200959 Comments

Electing the first black President was always going to shake things up, or, rather dig things up, but I really wasn't prepared for the in-your-face racism spewing out of Republicans. …