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A Quick Idea About Earmarks

By Scott P March 12, 20107 Comments

As a belated follow-up to Cassandra's wonderful post on Monday (yeah, the new guy's sucking up. You got a problem with that?) that touched on earmark reform, I have an idea…

Chip Flowers’ Bold Plan

By liberalgeek March 12, 201028 Comments

I have talked to Chip Flowers several times in the past at various political events. He and I have made small talk, or discussed small-time political analysis. After just a…

Friday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope March 12, 201022 Comments

TGIF! It looks like the wonderful spring-like sunny weather is not going to hold through the weekend, unfortunately. Let's roll with the open thread. Democrats overwhelmingly want to pass the…

Unicorns, Ponies, Rainbows, Oh My

By nemski March 12, 201085 Comments

From our beginnings in the 18th century, the United States of America has been the underdog in the international scene. Though our underdog status has left us long ago, the…

Harry Reid Eats His Wheaties

By Unstable Isotope March 12, 20102 Comments

I'd like to start this post with a sincere wish for the rapid recovery of Harry Reid's wife and daughter, who were in a serious car accident yesterday. Health care reform looks more certain to pass any day now. One hold-up has been the distrust between the House and the Senate. The Senate is now an almost completely dysfunctional body and the House is worried that the fixes to the health care bill will not see action. There are now at least 54 Senators on board with reconciliation for the sidecar bill containing fixes to the Senate bill and Harry Reid has sent a letter of notice to Mitch McConnell that Democrats are going to pursue reconciliation:

Mike Gave Us Quarters

By Delaware Dem March 11, 201027 Comments

You will remember when I first came to Delaware Liberal, my new compatriots were kind enough to allow me to bring over a logo I used on my old blog "Daily Delaware," the one with the Caesar Rodney quarter. I did not learn until many months later that our illustrious founder Jason330 was kind of reluctant to do that, since Mike Castle was the author of the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act of 1997 that created the 50 State Quarter Program, and since Jason330 was Mike Castle's mortal enemy. I was put in mind of that after reading the latest Kavips.

Tells

By Delaware Dem March 11, 201010 Comments

Last week Glenn Beck called on his cult like followers to investigate their church's website to see if the word “social justice” anywhere. And if they found those words, they…

Filibuster Reform on the Horizon?

By Scott P March 11, 20104 Comments

This sounds like welcome news to me. Via Ezra Klein and Sam Stein of HuffPo, there is starting to be some serious talk about filibuster reform. Yesterday at a reporters' briefing, Harry Reid had some interesting comments about the present and future of Senate procedure.

WDEL News Listens to Rick Jensen Too Much

By Delaware Dem March 11, 20106 Comments

WDEL, in its story on Carper's not-shocking-at-all-to-anyone-paying attention announcement that Senate Democrats will be using reconciliation, WDEL wrote this: "Senator Carper says Democrats will be opting for a rarely used practice to push a health care reform measure through." Rarely used??

Congress and the Exchanges

By Scott P March 11, 20105 Comments

No, it's not a new indie band, it's an aspect of the health care reform debate that just might end up being important. Remember back to last summer? Of course you do. Tiger Woods was a respected public figure, Beau Biden was going to announce his candidacy any day now, and teabagging wingnuts were screaming all sorts of nonsense at Congressmen. One of the not-so-nonsensical things they were yelling, though, was the challenge of, "If the public option/exchanges is so great, why don't you use it?" Well, this time the Senate listened.

Please Welcome Scott P to Delaware Liberal

By Delaware Dem March 11, 201021 Comments

Many of our regular readers will recognize Scott P as a thoughtful, intelligent and regular commenter here. He also has his own fantastic blog, The Palmer Lyceum. If you have…

Tom Carper Trying to Help Kill Public Option Effort in the Senate

By cassandra_m March 11, 20105 Comments

According to this article in The Hill, Dick Durbin is thinking that the entire caucus needs to come to grips with the idea of voting down any amendments to the HCR reconciliation fix, even the Public Option. And here is Tom Carper -- working on his centrist cred, no doubt -- egging this on:

Kaufman Takes on Too Big To Fail

By Delaware Dem March 11, 201019 Comments

I really wish Senator Kaufman made no Shermanesque statements upon accepting former Governor Minner's appointment. He is experienced, passionate, more than capable, intelligent, and has served Delaware well over the last year and a half as our junior Senator. And I say that because I want Senator Kaufman to remain my Senator. I want to vote for him. Not only for what he has said today, but for what he has said and done over his tenure. Because, quite frankly, we Democrats in Delaware are not used to being represented by a someone is Congress who wants to break up big banks, regulate and hold corporations to task, and push for a public health insurance option.