The Wall Street Journal has an article (which can be found here – subscription may be required) that reports on President Obama’s statement that the auto bailout was a success. The President says: If we had done nothing, not only were your jobs gone, but supplier jobs were gone and dealership jobs were gone, and [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Auto Bailout a Success? I Think Not.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Hey John Carney, Isn’t A Blue Ribbon Panel Just Like A “Working Group”?
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, Elections on July 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Struggling Congressional Candidate, John Carney, announced yesterday that he’d like a “working group” to study any link between groundwater contaminants and Delaware’s cancer rates. It was just 2+ short years ago that the Minner-Carney Administration was calling for “Blue Ribbon Panels” right-left-&-center to investigate any number of problems facing Delaware that Minner-Carney had refused to [...]
Caesar Rodney Institute Exposes Expenditures Of Government Employee Union
Posted in Delaware, Government Waste on July 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Several times Michael Begatte, who leads AFSCME in Delaware, has been mentioned on this blog. Sometimes he is referred to humorously as Gov. Begatto because of the power he wields in Dover. He was largely responsible for shutting down Governor Markell’s, the man actually elected to the position, miniscule efforts at reducing the future cost [...]
Fred Cullis Comments on Delaware – It’s Pete du Pont’s Fault!
Posted in Delaware, Economy, GOP, Government Waste on July 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Delaware State Legislature has been drifting, rudderless, and has fallen asleep at the helm. And it’s all Pete du Pont’s fault. Pete du Pont was elected Governor of Delaware in 1976 and served for eight years. While in office, he balanced the budget, passed a balanced budget amendment, began the process of slashing the [...]
Want to restart the economy? Quit attacking operating companies…
Posted in Economy on July 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
From today’s USA Today (The article can be found here): Non-financial companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 have a record $837 billion in cash, S&P says. That’s enough to pay 2.4 million people $70,000-a-year salaries for five years. For context, 2.2 million to 2.8 million jobs were saved or created by the $862 billion [...]
What an embarrasment.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
From the world of just how stupid do they think we are comes the following: the county is now solvent. On 6/30 the Coons brigade was in Leg Hall fighting with the realtors over taxes and how they had to have more or they’d be filing chapter 11 within weeks; yet today the gov’t is [...]
Any Wonder Why Senators DeLuca & Blevins Are Allowed To Run The Senate Like Their Own Playground?
Posted in Delaware, Democrats, GOP, Open Government, Sen. DeLuca on July 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Evidently, the Delaware Democrat Party runs using the same techniques. The following was sent out by Jud Bennett through his email listserv: Democratic endorsements fail at ideal of openness FROM JOANNE CABRY On July 15, the Delaware Democratic Party issued a press release announcing the party’s endorsement of statewide candidates “following extensive discussion and deliberation [...]
The Challenge Program is having a BBQ to celebrate it’s new LEED Gold Certified Education Center – Come On Down!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Please join us for the Challenge Program BBQ and help us celebrate progress on the Challenge Program’s new Construction Training and Education Center! Barbeque and beverages. Family friendly. Live music. Celebrate progress on the Challenge Program’s new Construction Training and Education Center. Thursday July 29, 2010, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Challenge Program 1124 [...]
You want more of the same? Go ahead and re-elect the State Senate Leadership
Posted in Delaware, Delaware State Senate, Democrats, General Assembly, GOP, Open Government, Sen. DeLuca on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The 2010 challengers to three long-serving, out-of-touch, legislators: Dave Lawson, Louis Saindon, & Fred Cullis If you want change, then vote out 3 of the Senate’s 20+ year incumbents. Why do I raise the point about change? In today’s News Journal Mr. Michael Heyman, communications director for Progressive Democrats for Delaware, wrote a brief piece [...]
Fundraiser for State Rep. candidate, Kate Rokosz
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Kate Rokosz (sounds like “raucous” which is what she’ll create when she goes to help straighten up the mess in Dover) is hosting a fundraiser on August 5th at the Old Middletown Academy. The evite can be found here. Some information on Kate from her website (which can be found here and is also where [...]
