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Tuesday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope October 27, 200947 Comments

What is there to look forward to on a Tuesday? A fresh, shiny new open thread that's what. Also, Drinking Liberally on Thursday at the Homegrown Cafe in Newark! Republican…

Dodd Pushes for Credit Card Law Sooner Than Later

By nemski October 27, 20092 Comments

The House Financial Services Committee has passed legislation that will push up the start date of the credit card law from February 22nd to December 1st, reports The New York…

MADD Delaware Tapped Financially

By nemski October 27, 20099 Comments

Delaware MADD looks like it will be closing its doors unless it receives an influx of money by Oct. 31st according to the Community News. MADD has done a lot…

Republican In-fighting

By pandora October 27, 200914 Comments

What's a liberal to do except watch as Republicans eat their own. And I'm not even getting into the NY-23 race. First we have Dobbs vs Rivera. Rivera accuses Dobbs…

The GOP Health Care Plan

By Unstable Isotope October 27, 200922 Comments

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has introduced a new bill to fix Medicare. He wants to privatize it: In an attempt to reclaim the right’s rich tradition of opposing Medicare, Rep.…

Official Fisker Announcement Today

By nemski October 27, 200945 Comments

As many of you know Vice President Joe Biden and Gov. Jack Markell will be at the Boxwood plant this morning to announce the Fisker deal. As the Philadelphia Inquirer…

Health Care Reform: The Day After

By Unstable Isotope October 27, 20095 Comments

Well, it's one day after Harry Reid's big announcement that the Senate bill would include the opt-out public option. The next big thing is ironing out the details of each…

A Quip Too Far?

By nemski October 27, 200913 Comments

Delaware Liberal favorite Rep. Alan Grayson might have gone a bit too far when talking about Linda Robertson, who is a lobbyist working for the Fed. Politico's Glenn Thrush reports…

Republican Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota and virtual candidate for President, has come out to endorse Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in NY-23 according to reports. With Fred Thompson, Sarah…

Late Nite Video — Unfortunate Product Names Edition

By cassandra_m October 26, 20093 Comments

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Obama’s Promise

By nemski October 26, 200921 Comments

I had the opportunity to listen to President Obama's speech to Marines in Jacksonville FL on the way home, I was struck by this quote: And while I will never…

Socialists Are Everywhere

By nemski October 26, 20091 Comment

Uruguay's Presidential election is wrapping up and it looks like José Mujica, a socialist and former guerrilla fighter, will win some 47% of the vote reports The New York Times.…

Senate Bill To Include Opt-Out Public Option

By Unstable Isotope October 26, 200920 Comments

Harry Reid is holding a press conference starting at 3:15 to announce the details of the health care bill that will voted on by the Senate. Early reports say that…