Distressed by Boehner, wingnut radio star talker calls for third party

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I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever agreed with nutbag Michael Savage.
The conservative radio host Michael Savage Sunday called for a third, "nationalist" American political party to challenge the Republican Party on the right of the political spectrum. “We need a nationalist party in the United States of America,” said Savage on Aaron Klein's WABC radio show.

Outrage in Milford (Update: The Signs are coming down)

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Click through for a larger version I saw this picture on Facebook, from a liberal friend downstate, who was sharing it via an original posting of the very nonliberal Dan Gaffney. It is nice to know that the outrage concerning this photo is bipartisan. And what is so outrageous about it, you ask? Well, you can read what it says in English. In Spanish it says "You have to have a permit to play here or you will be arrested." So if you are a white English speaking "American," you can play here at your own risk so long as you have a parent or guardian watching. If you are brown, if you dare play here without a permit we will arrest your immigrant ass. That is the fucking height of racism, and I will see to it that who ever is responsible for this sign will have their public careers ended immediately.

5,000,000 other Earths in The Milky Way Galaxy

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One of those 5,000,000 is going to be the very first very earth-like planet to be discovered - THIS YEAR!   That means science's long held dream of sex with blue chicks is just around the corner. So, let's do the math.   If only .00001 percent have intelligent life on them,  that's 50 planets that can come and rescue our sorry asses with their pyramid power.  Either that or use us for food.

Holy Shi… Look who might have solved the phoney debt ceiling “crisis”

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Michael Castle: Unsuspecting godfather of the $1 trillion coin solution The story starts in 1995, when Rep. Michael Castle, then the Republican at-large representative for Delaware, took over as head of the House Financial Services subcommittee on domestic and international monetary policy. Issues of coinage were part of that subcommittee’s jurisdiction, and so Castle — who tells me that he personally has never collected coins or previously hadn’t had much interest in coin issues — started working with coin collectors and others to draft legislation on the topic. Castle’s biggest accomplishment in the role was the 50-state quarter program, which involved issuing 50 differently designed quarters in the order the states were admitted to the Union (it isn’t a coincidence that Castle’s home state of Delaware was the first admitted). But he also drafted a bill, the Commemorative Coin Authorization and Reform Act of 1995, that included this provision:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury may mint and issue platinum coins in such quantity and of such variety as the Secretary determines to be appropriate.

My Advice To Dems: Ignore Republicans

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Republicans are in tough guy mode.  Lots of chest thumping and trash talk going on as they, once again, thrust the debt ceiling onto center stage.  The howling is quite intense, and, as usual, our awesome media will latch onto the hysterics with a passion that would make a Twilight fan blush.  My advice to Dems... Ignore it.

Tweet of the Day

Some people say we should eat vegetables, some say we should eat broken glass. Democrats believe in a balanced diet of veggies and glass. — @drgrist via TweetDeck via dkos

Chris Christie tells the truth about the GOP House

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I've pulled out some of my favorite quotes:
"There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims, the House majority and their speaker, John Boehner. This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. National disasters happen in red states and blue states and states with Democratic governors and Republican governors. We respond to innocent victims of natural disasters, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans. Or at least we did until last night."
Extra points here for saying "Democratic"

The Delaware Liberal – Progressive Dem Vote Tracker

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Since El Somnambulo will be easing back on his daily pre game / post game reports during the upcoming 2013 Legislative session, we are introducing a new vote tracker to stay on top of legislation in the coming new year. Specifically, we will be tracking legislation that furthers or hinders liberal and progressive policy positions, and recording how our Democratic State Representatives and Senators vote on the legislation. To that end, Delaware Liberal is partnering with the Progressive Democrats for Delaware to track how their endorsed candidates voted in regards to their legislative priorities. I have made an example of how the vote tracker will work inside...

Bipartisan Reading

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Ross Douthat's column in the NYT last Saturday recommends that we spend some time in 2013 challenging our political selves by regularly reading from at least one source that is not in your partisan political comfort zone. He reasons that since this is not a national election year, we'll be abit safer reading "across the aisle" (apparently the hyper partisanship dies down in off election years) and end up challenging what we think we know or at least understanding better our political opposites.

Carper’s Gone Rogue. Make That Rogue-er.

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Poor despairing Tom Carper. Forced to sit in his Senate Democratic Caucus and see his dreams of 'entitlement reform', aka gut the New Deal and the Great Society, go down the drain. From today's unbelievable (but true) News-Journal piece:
Carper said he “sat there in despair” during meetings with fellow Democrats to discuss the deal brokered by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Carper had been telling colleagues for months this was their chance to do something meaningful about tax and entitlement reforms. The deal ultimately passed by Congress does neither, he said.
Don't believe that Carper is going after Social Security? Read this illogic in all its Carperesque rationalization, then read what Sen. Bernie Sanders has to say about it: