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I Have The World’s Smallest Violin

By Unstable Isotope March 13, 20104 Comments

My violin weeps for Bart Stupak. He went from the U.S.'s most important Congressman to irrelevant. He went to a publication that has only the Democratic party's best interest in…

The New Adventures of Old Christine

By Delaware Dem March 12, 201023 Comments

Did you know that Christine O'Donnell's 2010 campaign website is "http://christineodonnell08.reimaginehosting.com," and it would appear, from the pictures on that site, that Charlie Copeland has endorsed her?

The Party of Vitter and Ensign

By cassandra_m March 12, 201033 Comments

Dems to GOP: If you say Rangel and Massa, we’ll say Vitter and Ensign.

Things Aren’t Always ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ Concerning Family Values

By nemski March 12, 20106 Comments

The problem with social conservatism is that it backs good people into a corner, whether it's Utah leading the nation in pornography consumption or the litany of Republican politicians who…

Booth in a Box

By Delaware Dem March 12, 201028 Comments

Booth has been running around like a chicken with its head cut off where this bill is concerned. He puts his name on a bill written by an NRA lobbyist and then is surprised that the bill overturns all gun control legislation? Really, Joe? As a Sussex County Senator, you have to wonder why Joe Booth didn't go the Atkins route. He wouldn't get in trouble with his constituents if he had gone all Second Amendment on our asses. So why is he dancing around?

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.