Thursday Open Thread

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) told Fox News that Republicans face a tough choice on President Obama's jobs bill: "If we vote for this plan, we'll own the economy with the president, and he desperately needs someone else to blame it on. If we vote against it, he's going to try to say Congress blocked his ability to create jobs." Sounds about right.

Read The Rude Pundit

That woman standing there by that shitty house and beat-up truck on the dirt road in Mississippi leading to whatever polluting plant is behind her probably doesn't give a goddamn about what Ben Bernanke has said at any point in his life. She probably doesn't give a goddamn about whether or not certain kinds of income are taxed as capital gains. She more than likely gives a damn about feeding those kids. She more than likely gives a damn about keeping them and herself healthy. She more than likely wants them to have a future, probably one beyond mud and filth.

Carper Needs Some Talking To.

Carper is doing his best to sound like a Republican again. Tell Senator Carper to support the President and vote for the America Jobs Act today. Tell him that Democrats support creating jobs and protecting Social Security and Medicare, not sacrificing both to protect the tax cuts of the rich.

County Tries to Sell State White Elephant

Rockwood. Yet another tony estate, built in the mid-1800’s, championed by those people more concerned about family crests than family stability, purchased by New Castle County with lotsa bucks from the state, turned into a ‘mansion and a park’ during the go-go Gordon and Freebury years, and now, and now…the County can’t afford the upkeep and wants to pawn it off on the state.

REEL Talk Film Premiere featuring Gov. Markell at The Queen.

A short film depicting a day in the life of Governor Jack Markell will premiere tonight at the World Cafe Live at The Queen in Wilmington. The film was produced by students participating in the Jewish Family Services of Delaware Media Matters program, a media and video production class for "at-risk" youth. The students in the program shadowed the Governor for a day this past Spring. The Governor will attend the priemere.

Karen Weldin Stewart’s Appeal to Nowhere…

...on behalf of, well, not the people of the State of Delaware, has been dismissed by federal regulators. The News-Journal story has a distinct Karen in Wonderland flavor to it. To (half-)wit: Our elected insurance commissioner, apparently on her own, applied for a three-year waiver to:
"exempt Aetna and UnitedHealthcare from spending 80 percent of premiums on medical care rather than administrative expenses or profits."

Is This ‘The Reveal’ We’ve Been Waiting For?

For those of you who don't know what "the reveal" is just google "The Reveal" & Obama and a post by yours truly should be in the top 50 results. If that is too much work for your lazy ass, just read this quote from Henry IV, Part 1
I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wondered at By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.