Have You Heard About Delaware Liberal’s Holiday Extravaganza?

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ark your calendars, and get ready for my daily reminders!  All our welcome! In keeping with tradition, please bring food for the Food Bank of Delaware.  We will be collecting the goodies and necessities and then delivering them to the Food Bank.  Let’s make someone’s season bright!

Date:  Friday, December 14th

Place:  Iron Hill Brewery (Riverfront)

Time:  7:00p.m.

If you're able to make it, let us know in the comment section!  Looks like almost all of the DL contributors will be in attendance!

The Polling Report [12.8.12]

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We're back with a new polling report, with new polls on the President's approval rating, on the various options in the fiscal slope manufactured crisis, on the New Jersey gubernatorial race, and on possible Senate races in Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois and New Jersey.

You can’t bargain with malevolent idiots

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The President, Senator Coons, Rep. Carney - these men keep talking about the need for a "bipartisan" solution to the debt crisis. I get why they think it is important to say that they want a bipartisan solution, but I hope that they don't think real bipartisanship is possible. These modern Republicans are people who seriously believe that the government is bloated and what we need is another round of tax cuts to spur the economy and deliver a double dose of character building poverty to the ungrateful poor. They think any public dollar not handed to defense contractors is a dollar wasted on a hopeless parasites. They hate the President with such a white hot passion that they view ANY deal that he would agree to (regardless of how much is sells out Democratic principles) as unacceptable. Looking at these malevolent idiots in action, I've become convinced that the next mid-term election is absolutely essential to returning the county to rationality and normalcy. The GOP needs to be swept from the field. When the GOP is utterly decimated, Democrats can finally stop talking about the importance of "bipartisanship."

In Defense of the Good White People…

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This I could write myself, as it applies to me almost entirely....
To whom it may concern regarding the United States federal elections of 2014, 2016 and beyond: Allow me to introduce myself to you, the existing (or aspiring!) strategist for the Republican Party. My name is Eric Arnold Garland and I am a White Man. Boy, am I ever – you need sunglasses just to look at my photo! If I read the news correctly, I fit a profile that is of extreme importance to the GOP, as I embody the archetype that fits your narrative of Real Americans. [...] [I am] the BREAD AND BUTTER OF THE GRAND OLD PARTY, a Mayflower-descended small business owner, burdened by taxation, looking out for his beautiful White family in the suburbs of a city (St Louis) surrounded by racial tension and urban blight! How can I put this gently? My wife and I are not sensitive to your messaging, nor did we vote for the candidates you proposed for us this past [election]. [...] May I explain why not.....

The Next Fight, the first battle of which was fought yesterday, resulting in McConnell shooting himself in the foot.

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The Fiscal Cliff fight is won. And we won it. Either the Republicans will pass the new Obama Middle Class Tax Cuts before January 1 or after. If they do it before, they will not be politically destroyed. If they do it after, they will be politically destroyed once again, just before the Next Fight begins in earnest. So what happened yesterday? Well, the Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, ended any doubt at all that there will be filibuster reform this January, at the start of the next Congress. What did he do now, you ask? He did something pretty remarkable. He filibustered himself. Yes. He filibustered his own bill. Here’s the background. As Jason has written about, the next big fight between the Dems and the Rethugs is the coming vote to raise the debt ceiling......

A Spectacular Jobs Report

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in November, nearly double the projections. What's more, the overall unemployment rate dropped to 7.7%, its lowest point in four years.

Conservatives Are “Gonna Get Medieval On Your Ass”

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Attention, True Patriots! Are you tired of living among liberals? Do you believe the collapse of the USA will happen any day and you'll be trapped in your cul de sac, unable to maneuver you SUV around all the "hungry, diseased souls" who will try to steal your liberty? Can you prove you can shoot a gun, and would like to live in a castle where everyone 13 and older is armed? Do you not only long for the good old days, but the really awesome Medieval days? If so, there's a place for you!

450 Economists Predicted Bush Tax Cut Debacle back in 2003

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>"Passing these tax cuts will worsen the long-term budget outlook, adding to the nation’s projected chronic deficits. This fiscal deterioration will reduce the capacity of the government to finance Social Security and Medicare benefits as well as investments in schools, health, infrastructure, and basic research. Moreover, the proposed tax cuts will generate further inequalities in after-tax income."

Somewhat conflicting messages from the White House re: debt ceiling

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The teabag congress must be loving this:
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday the Obama administration does not believe the 14th Amendment gives the President the ability to ignore the debt ceiling, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile President Obama...
...says he won’t negotiate under any circumstances. And his top advisors say he’s adamant on the point — not just because of the current impasse but to take hostage taking over the national debt off the table for good.