Archive for November, 2009

White House Gatecrashers: Fascinating?

Filed in National by on November 28, 2009 25 Comments

We haven’t covered the story of the state dinner crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi here at DL because it didn’t seem like a big deal. The Salahis managed to get past Secret Service security, which raises some eyebrows, but ultimately nothing happened. The Salahis managed to get photographed with Rahm Emmanuel, Joe Biden and even […]

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Carper on Hardball

Filed in National by on November 27, 2009 0 Comments

This is from a show on 11/25 and Chuck Todd interviews him:

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Black Friday Open Thread

Filed in National by on November 27, 2009 31 Comments
Black Friday Open Thread

Today is Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. How many of you braved the stores today? I’m happily ensconced on my couch today. I try to avoid shopping on Black Friday if I can, I don’t like the craziness. It’s your open thread so let’s get started. Here is a cool link […]

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National Day of Listening

Filed in National by on November 27, 2009 9 Comments

I was going to post up something about the Black Friday madness (even picked out some music), but I heard something yesterday which I think is much more useful.

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New Rules May Bar Lobbyist From Advisory Boards

Filed in National by on November 27, 2009 6 Comments

I’m not sure why there hasn’t been more comment from the Obama administration on this: Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street’s influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts. […]

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Trouble In Paradise?

Filed in National by on November 27, 2009 12 Comments

Remember all that talk about a Palin/Beck ticket? Glenn Beck says it isn’t going to happen and he has really good reasons why it won’t happen: But just a few hours later on his radio show, Beck shot down the idea, saying he was “absolutely” ruling out a Palin-Beck ticket. He explained that if he […]

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Classic Thanksgiving Video Fare

Filed in National by on November 26, 2009 2 Comments

The WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop episode for those of you looking for a small time killer as you recover from your turkey and gravy overdose. This is the very funny end of that episode:

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Happy Thanksgiving Open Thread

Filed in National by on November 26, 2009 11 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving to our Delaware Liberal community!

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An Alternate Thanksgiving Re-Enactment

Filed in National by on November 26, 2009 1 Comment

From Addams’ Family Values, the classic Thanksgiving Play:

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Little Kids Re-Enact the First Thanksgiving (and Other Stuff)

Filed in National by on November 26, 2009 3 Comments

These kids are adorable even tho the history isn’t exactly right, but it seems like the perfect Delaware Liberal thing to do to put up a video re-enacting Thanksgiving from the junior Howard Zinn perspective:

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Tom Carper Never Lets Go the Rightwing Talking Points

Filed in National by on November 25, 2009 63 Comments

Call this post reason #578,091 why Senator Tom Carper is not a progressive. As if a proud member of the DLC could be. Senator Carper tells WHYY:

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Does the GOP Purity Test Abandon Mike Castle?

Filed in National by on November 25, 2009 20 Comments

Adam Nagourney at the NYT brings up this possibility in their political blog today:

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Bush’s Term Was Only Kittens And Rainbows

Filed in National by on November 25, 2009 6 Comments

Remember how we snickered when Dana Perino admitted she didn’t know anything about the Bay of Pigs? Her problems with history are more severe than that: But Perino’s appearance last night with Sean Hannity was more noteworthy than most. The topic was the shootings at Fort Hood, and Perino, playing her usual role, criticized the […]

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