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Written by Donna Gordon
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 17:39 |
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Come help us celebrate Tax Day by showing our disgust for your Federal Tax System.
When: April 15th
What Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: Meet at K-Mart Parking Lot. We will walk up to Outlet Centers 2 and 3 and line both sides of the street on the sidewalk.
What to bring: Signs, a cheerful disposition and a loud voice.
Be there or be square!
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 March 2010 17:54 |
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Written by Donna Gordon
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 14:45 |
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Between the Delaware Tea Party and the 9/12 Delaware Conservatives we had about 100 people lining the sidewalk in front of the Dover Mall on February 27th. It was a great two hours that was enjoyed by all. I will post some pictures tomorrow. And checkout my "I Am A Tea Party Leader" video in our video gallery.
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Written by Donna Gordon
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:43 |
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Just a reminder that the GOP has a health care plan that has been scored by the Congressional Budget Office. This plan includes no new taxes, reduces the deficit and lowers health care costs.
Read it for yourself and judge which is the better plan for America.
Here is the link:
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare
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Written by Donna Gordon
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 11:10 |
Please get other Delawareans to contact Sen. Carper. As you have heard, Pelosi and Reid are talking about passing the 2000 page health care spending bill by what the Democrats have called a parliamentary "trick" i.e. the reconciliation process. I just found this material on the internet, stating that Sen. Carper is in favor of this. This is going on while the president is preparing for a bipartisan health care summit to at least make the appearance of trying to find solutions and compromise.
Contact Carper and tell him you want to scrap the 2000 page monstrosity and start over. Americans do not want that bill. If the point is to lower costs let's do that with tort reform, high-risk pools for patients with pre-exisiting conditions, tax breaks for individuals that are the same as tax breaks for employers, the ability to buy policies across state lines etc. Let's not have the feds take over health care.
You can reach Sen. Carper's health care staffer, Stefan Wirth at
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Senate Democrats not ruling out reconciliation to pass healthcare bill.
Roll Call (2/16, Drucker) reports, "Senate Democrats say they see no need to abandon the idea of using reconciliation to pass healthcare reform this year just because President Barack Obama has scheduled a bipartisan summit next week to try to break the impasse on Capitol Hill." Roll Call cites comments in support of reconciliation from Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Tom Harkin (D-IA). Senator Carper (D-DE) has been reaching out to moderates in the House to convince them that the reconciliation "sidecar" option is the way to go:
Sen. Tom Carper, a centrist Democrat from Delaware who played an active role in Senate healthcare talks, said he would reach out to House Democratic centrists to persuade them to vote for the Senate-passed bill along with a sidecar.
“We’ve had some conversations with some of them already,” he said.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 15:53 |
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Written by Donna Gordon
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Saturday, 13 February 2010 16:27 |
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I grew up in New Jersey, and I can assure you this: all over the state, suddenly-embattled Democratic legislators and apparatchiks are now routinely referring to Gov. Christie as “that fat [insert expletive here]” - with a wide range of choices for the expletive. Why?
Because that fat [insert expletive here] just told the unions that elections have consequences, and he’s one of them.
To summarize: Christie is executive-ordering out 2.2 billion from the existing NJ budget to make up for the shortfalls from the previous administration (while noting that the days of optimistic estimated revenue projections from the state government were over); the centerpiece to this is a reduction of school aid by half a billion, tied to existing surpluses in districts - essentially, a spend-what-you-have program. This - coupled with a subsidy cut to NJ Transit, with an explicit instruction to the entity that it’s going to have to revisit its union contracts - is of course infuriating the union wing of the NJ Democratic party, particularly since Christie is not calling for offsetting tax hikes*. Christie’s response?
“I’m trying to provide the leadership that’s necessary to say, ‘This is a new day, and we have to do it differently,’” Christie said. “If I can do that by cooperation, I’m happy to do that by cooperation, but at some point we have to get real.”
So if you were wondering whether your support of that fat [insert expletive here] last summer after the primary was going to turn around and bite you: well, so far… nope, it hasn’t. Right now, he’s ticking off all the right people.
Moe Lane
*That last bit is possibly the most crucial: a large part of the Democratic domestic policy strategy lies in convincing people that public programs default to being absolutely necessary, absolutely urgent, and absolutely eternal.
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