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By Donviti June 23, 200921 Comments

Why is a public option for health care bad for small business?

Nixon Would Have Aborted Obama

By Delaware Dem June 23, 200933 Comments

The Nixon tapes are either a gift that keeps on giving, or a recurring nightmare. Today we learn the following wisdom the 37th President. "There are times when an abortion…

Sanford Makes Ensign Look Smart In Comparison

By Unstable Isotope June 23, 200923 Comments

South Carolina governor Mark Sanford's disappearing act just keeps getting stranger and stranger. Let's count the evolving stories: 1) Sanford is missing and not even his wife knows where he…

Biden v. Castle Would Be a Rerun of Biden v. Boggs

By jason330 June 23, 200917 Comments

Tarheeman1993 at swing state project likened a race between Beau Biden and Mike Castle to the 1972 Joe Biden race against Caleb Boggs. Castle's statement to the Philly Inquirer definitely…

Obama Reminds Republicans Of Their Free Enterprise Mantra

By pandora June 23, 200938 Comments

This has to hurt. But I guess having your own words used against you never feels good. Why would it drive private insurance out of business? If private insurers say…

“Clark is whining about his lost money.”

By jason330 June 23, 20093 Comments

If it wasn't such a big news day, this would be a big story. It seems Paul Clark invoked the James Bond sounding "Item J Resolution" to get his legal…

Joe Klein Speaks The Truth

By pandora June 23, 200932 Comments

Via Balloon Juice. To put it as simply as possible, McCain--and his cohorts--are trying to score political points against the President in the midst of an international crisis. It is…

SB 121

By Delaware Dem June 23, 20098 Comments

We just got a tip on our tipline: It seems that SB 121 is being pulled from today's agenda. Maybe that will change before sessions starts....but that is the early…

Lunch Break News

By xstryker June 23, 20098 Comments

You've been told a lie - Monsanto and the Agribusiness lobby want you to think chemical farming is vastly superior to organic farming. Organic farming can feed about as many…

What Adams’ Death Might Mean in the Short-Term

By El Somnambulo June 23, 200930 Comments

Yes, it is unseemly, and, yes, El Somnambulo wishes he didn't have to write this. But there are real and immediate potential impacts to Senator Adams' death, and they must…

How to Use 931 Words to Say Nothing

By jason330 June 23, 20095 Comments

Only in Delaware (c) would this pass for political reporting.

How Did That Anti-Sotomayor Campaign Work Out?

By Unstable Isotope June 23, 200914 Comments

The Republicans already admitted that the Sotomayor nomination fight has failed to inspire the donations they expected. Now some polling has shown how much their over-the-top crazy rhetoric has hurt…

UPDATED: Castle Speaks in Philly – Tea Leaf Readers Have At It

By jason330 June 23, 200926 Comments

Update: realclearpolitics.com picked up the DiStefano column. I'd expect that "They've asked me to run for the Senate as a Republican. comment to start turning up everywhere in the next…