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Posted in Comment Rescue on Dec 4th, 2009
Secret Service: Threats Against Obama No Higher than Normal
CBS ^ | 12/3/09 | Stepahine Condom
The director of the Secret Service today disputed widely-reported claims that President Obama is receiving more death threats than previous presidents. At a congressional hearing into the White House security breach that took place last week, when Tareq and Michaele Salahi [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Comment Rescue, National Security on Nov 30th, 2009
Comment Rescue –David Anderson
Afghanistan is a very complicated country. It is a feudal federal republic. We cannot act as if Karzai is the only power. We have to do what we did in Iraq, which is work with the tribal leaders and the central government. It is about our national security and the peace of [...]
Posted in Biden, Comment Rescue, Employment, Energy, Jack Markell, Jobs on Nov 20th, 2009
Valero to close Del. refinery (good job Mr. VP, evil energy co. gets its just deserts)–The Democrat energy bill removed many refinery provisions.
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 11/20/2009 | staff
Valero Energy Corp., the largest U.S. refiner, announced today that it will permanently close its Delaware City, Del., plant because of losses brought on by the poor [...]
Posted in Abortion, Comment Rescue, Tyler Nixon on Nov 12th, 2009
I commented early on Dave Anderson’s thread on social conservatism vis a vis Fiscal Conservatism and I thought that the question was one of political strategy. I like those kind of questions because political strategy and organization is where one wins elections on the margins. There is no secret to winning elections in Wilmington. Be [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Obama on Oct 1st, 2009
Rick left a link which alleges Valerie Jarrett, senior Presidential adviser, would financially benefit from an Olympic victory. It appears the Presidential schedule is subject to the whim of the Chicago crowd. It is disappointing if true. Michelle Malkin may need to write the Culture of Corruption part 2.
Jarrett’s slum lord record [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Deficit on Aug 12th, 2009
“Also Gramm Rudmanan Hollings proved the point that when spending is controlled, you can get deficit reduction and tax reform. The top tax rate was slashed starting in 1987 and the deficit went down.” (David Anderson)
David - what kind of weird history books are you reading? Everything you said in that comment was factually wrong.
Actually [...]
Posted in Americanism, Comment Rescue, Conservatism on Jul 17th, 2009
Your contributor Tim made this soon to be classic quote.
“No person with contempt for the Constitution is fit for public office.” Art Downes
Well Art that rules out a sizable chunk our General Assembly and most of the House and Senate, not to mention the executive branches at both the state and federal level. The best [...]
Posted in Budget, Change, Comment Rescue, Deficit, Delaware Democrats, Open Government, Taxes, Transparency, Waste on Jun 29th, 2009
resolutedetermination over at Resolute Determination has this inspiring report up:
I just called the Division of Research at Legislative Hall to get my hands on a copy of the budget. I was told that the public has no right to review the budget until after the General Assembly passes the bill.
So how can any Delawarean make [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Energy, Environment on Jun 26th, 2009
Dear Congressman Castle,
I would like to express my total and vehement opposition to H.R. 2454, the boondoggle of a bill oddly titled the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009”.
The fact that it is now over 1,000 pages and is being suspiciously fast-tracked by the House leadership is enough to give one pause. There [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Iraq, National Dems, National GOP on Jun 24th, 2009
Some things really irritate me, like the way people conveniently forget what was going on a scant 8 years ago in our nation:
anoni
DA,
Unfortunately, it’s not one sided.
The Patriot Act, and the TARP were both passed unread under Pres Bush and for the Patriot Act the R’s had the house and senate.
it’s not new, but it [...]
Posted in Charlie Copeland, Comment Rescue, Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats, Jack Markell, Open Government, Transparency on May 29th, 2009
Lt. Governor Matt Denn has caused a stir in Delaware’s Blogosphere by starting a blog that he touts as, “the first official blog written by a member of Delaware’s state government.” And as far as I can tell, it is. It’s also, as I pointed out on Down With Absolutes, a blog that [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Education on May 14th, 2009
Smitty made a great point over on DL that deserved a wider audience than one blog. He is opposing changing school board elections to November with the general elections. I agree with him.
I do NOT EVER want to know or hear what political affiliation a school board candidate identifies with. If nothing else, [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, National GOP on May 4th, 2009
“I would appreciate it if you could give a brief outline on what the Repubs, if they were in power, would do on the economy, for starters. Then we have the wars, the healthcare shortfall, global warming and education. Where are the Repubs on these issues as well?” -Perry
“Tim, you are speaking in generalities, not [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Delaware Blogs, Jack Markell, Markell on Apr 1st, 2009
I am rescuing my own comment from Elbert’s “Elbert With an ‘E’” blog post.
Linked above, pasted below:
OK, it’s time to give up this outrage. The name given to this event was developed by bloggers (possibly DD, I believe), not Governor Markell or any of his staff. It was indeed a MISNOMER by calling it a [...]
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