Democracy for Delaware

Mitch McConnell’s Senate Seat Now In Jeopardy
by Sam Stein
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/23/mitch-mcconnells-senate-s_n_108642.html
While much of the media and political world has been focused on the race for the White House, another contest with leadership implications is quietly gaining steam on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was never expected to be challenged for his seat. […]

Comfortable retirement a fading dream for many
Sam Zuckerman, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2008
(06-15) 17:35 PDT — Ruth Britton enjoys her part-time work as a college instructor. But, at 69, there are plenty of other things the Greenbrae resident would like to do - volunteer, write, take classes, travel.
The problem is, with the cost of […]

Politics and the Insecurity Economy
The Bush Republican economic revolution has been fought. Working class and middle class Americans lost along with the nation. The result is the Republican insecurity economy of today. It is not a happy place for most Americans.
The Bush Republican economic revolution really started under Ronald Reagan and had some roots going […]

Senate Republicans block move for oil profits tax
Associated Press
June 11, 2008
WASHINGTON
Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt yesterday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.
GOP senators shoved aside the Democratic […]

http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=54498
This is shocking news. Private military forces should not be legal at all anywhere on American soil….. period!

Exposing the GOP’s Voter Suppression Campaign
By Bill Boyarsky
If Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, is to defeat John McCain, he’d better get started organizing teams of election law attorneys and other specialists to guard against efforts already underway to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
State laws imposing strict voter identification requirements have proliferated. They will be […]