Democracy for Delaware

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/opinion/29herbert.html?_r=2
The New York Times
December 29, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
A Less Than Honest Policy
By BOB HERBERT
There is a middle-class tax time bomb ticking in the Senate’s version of President Obama’s effort to reform health care.
The bill that passed the Senate with such fanfare on Christmas Eve would impose a confiscatory 40 percent excise tax on so-called Cadillac health […]

The Need to Help Labor Radio Survive
In these terrible economic times, it is hard to keep the bills paid for most working families. We all are struggling to stay in our homes, keep our old cars on the road and food on the table. Americans are certainly worried with good reason about keeping their jobs […]

ACORN Scores A Victory
http://www.delawareliberal.net/2009/12/11/acorn-scores-a-victory/#comments
By Unstable Isotope
ACORN has scored a court victory, successfully arguing that Congress’s defunding bill was a bill of attainder:
A judge has put an injunction on Congress’s ban on ACORN funding.
U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon today ruled to put a preliminary injunction on the Congressional resolution that barred ACORN or its affiliates from […]

Brutal poll for Dems
By Markos Moulitsas
http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/markos-moulitas/70053-brutal-poll-for-dems?sms_ss=twitter
Democrats had known there was an “intensity gap” between angry conservatives in the Republican Party and the unexcited Democratic base, and in a midterm election, base turnout often determines who wins the night. Yet no one suspected it was this bad.
Nonpartisan pollster Research 2000 conducts a large-scale weekly […]