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USC Recruits 7th Grader

By pandora February 5, 20106 Comments

Via Gather: David Sills, a seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear, Delaware has got a great arm and seems to know the game of football. Even his quarterback…

I Didn’t Elect President Shelby

By Unstable Isotope February 5, 201044 Comments

WTF!?!? Is Senator Richard Shelby out to prove that the Senate is completely dysfunctional and that Republicans are full of sh*t? Sen. Shelby has placed a blanket hold on ALL…

Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.7%

By Delaware Dem February 5, 201013 Comments

The number of employed Americans has risen by 541,000 since the last Jobs report, while an additional 20,000 jobs have been lost. The jobs report from November has been revised…

O’Reilly Runs Away From His Base

By Unstable Isotope February 5, 20109 Comments

The Research 2000 poll commissioned by Daily Kos has a lot of Republicans worried. Republican leaders know that the extremism of the Republican base will turn voters off so that's…

SNOWGASM!!!!!

By Delaware Dem February 4, 201066 Comments

Delaware Liberal will be providing complete coverage of the End of the World, er ah, the Blizzard of 2010, or ah, Snowpocalypse II: The Return, or as I like to call it .....

Castle Votes With Party and Against Fiscal Responsibility

By Delaware Dem February 4, 20106 Comments

Mike Castle has voted against fiscal responsibility today by voting no on restoring the Pay-Go Rules that would require lawmakers to find ways to pay for proposed spending increases in…

Democrats Introduce Bill To Repeal Health Insurance Anti-Trust Exemption

By Unstable Isotope February 4, 20105 Comments

Two House Democrats are introducing legislation to repeal the anti-trust exemption of health insurance companies. More like this, please.

Those Evil Republican Indianapolis Colts

By Delaware Dem February 4, 201012 Comments

I always suspected that the supporters of the Colts were Republican, for only people so evil so as to be Republican could support the equally evil Irsay family, which ripped the hearts of out of fans of the Baltimore Colts over twenty five years ago. A new Public Policy Polling survey found that there is a noticeable partisan divide over support for the Colts or Saints in Sunday's Super Bowl.

Senate GOP Considering Suicidal Filibuster of Jobs Bill

By Delaware Dem February 4, 201011 Comments

What is the #1 issue in America? JOBS. What is the Senate voting on on Monday? A JOBS BILL. What will the Senate GOP being doing on Monday? FILIBUSTERING THE JOBS BILL.

Does Castle Want Our Seniors to Die?

By Delaware Dem February 4, 20105 Comments

Wisconsin GOP Representative Paul Ryan is drafting the GOP Budget proposal. So far we have learned he plans to privatize both Social Security and Medicare in order to cut spending in the proposal, because we all know that the GOP can never cut defense spending and/or raise taxes. Ever. So we are going to find out pretty soon just how much of a lemming Mike Castle really is.

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope February 4, 201015 Comments

It's Thursday and it's the day after the Delaware Tweet-Up. I liked the opportunity to meet some of our readers and I hope some of my Twitter friends will read the blog. Let's open this thread!

“It’s Worth Thinking About”

By pandora February 4, 20101 Comment

At yesterday's Q&A with Democrats Obama delivered a line that should have every Democrat sitting up and taking notice. If you watch the video below one thing stands out -…

The Sand Castle

By Delaware Dem February 4, 201015 Comments

I am not one to regularly criticize exaggeration, overstatements and hyperbole, because I often engage in it myself as a literary device. But with Celia Cohen, her articles are, to steal from Vice President Biden, a noun, a verb, and a ridiculous overstatement or comparison.