WDEL Blog: Al Mascitti
April 28, 2009
Delaware's Budget: Facts and Fiction
Will Delaware Republicans ever stop posturing? Apparently not. Even in the face of a deficit exceeding three-quarters of a billion dollars, they can’t ditch their old habits...
April 23, 2009
Torture Logic
Many listeners seem confused by why I would devote two consecutive shows to the interrogation/torture controversy. Simple: I think this potentially is our most serious Constitutional crisis since Watergate...
April 14, 2009
Lefties Call Out Obama
I will not make any claim that liberals are more likely to challenge their own elected officials than conservatives, because I’ve been on the air for 3 ½ years and I’ve seen more evidence of the opposite (illustrated by the several regular callers who insist I respect the differences between conservatives and Republicans)...
March 28, 2009
Biden Puts His Boot Down
Worried about the growing commitment in Afghanistan? It's one you share with your former senior senator, apparently. According to ...
March 27, 2009
Soaking the Super-Rich
Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has a smart post on tax policy, noting that our current bracket structure, which flattens out at the ridiculously low level of $250,000, is a historical anomaly...
March 26, 2009
Handicapping the Markell Budget
Which among Jack Markell’s proposals is likely to get through the General Assembly, and which will legislators toss aside? Here’s a quick rundown, with my thoughts on how likely each is to make it into law...
March 3, 2009
El Rushbo: The Elephant in the Room
With Michael Steele’s groveling apology this week, the Republican Party suddenly has realized it has a Rush Limbaugh problem.
Contrary to what conservative caller Kevin claimed on Monday’s show, Limbaugh’s favorability ratings are bad news for any party intent on winning over new voters...
March 3, 2009
El Rushbo: The Elephant in the Room
With Michael Steele’s groveling apology this week, the Republican Party suddenly has realized it has a Rush Limbaugh problem.
Contrary to what conservative caller Kevin claimed on Monday’s show, Limbaugh’s favorability ratings are bad news for any party intent on winning over new voters...
July 22, 2008
Cloutier Backpedals on Jobs Claim
State Sen. Cathy Cloutier was interviewed for Tuesday's noon news by Allan Loudell, who tried to pin her down on a line from her Friday press release:
"Passage of SB 245 [the eminent domain bill] in its present form would have eliminated jobs for some of my constituents...
July 21, 2008
What Jobs, Senator?
A press release from State Sen. Cathy Cloutier, explaining her vote to uphold Gov. Minner's veto of the eminent domain bill, SB 245, including this cryptic line:
"Passage of SB 245 in its present form would have eliminated jobs for some of my constituents...
June 24, 2008
Latest Charter School vs. DSEA Developments
For those who missed it, Barbara Grogg, president of the Delaware State Teachers Association (DSEA), was scheduled to appear on my show first thing Monday morning...
June 11, 2008
Teachers' Union Plan to Attack Charters
The attack on charter schools by the Delaware State Education Association, which came to light in recent months when the union opposed conduit bond funding -- a no-cost, no-risk bureaucratic maneuver -- that could have saved the Delaware Military Academy over $100,000 a year...
May 27, 2008
If You Think YOU're Mad at Big Oil...
...you can take solace in the fact that the oil companies are taking even their own franchisees for suckers. This Washington Post story from Sunday (5/25) makes me feel sorry for the poor schmoes who pinned their hopes for running a business on what these vultures left them...
May 22, 2008
Obama's Secret Weapon
Barack Obama supporters are under fire from two directions -- Hillary Clinton supporters and Republicans. McCainiacs seem to think that polls taken in May are irrefutable evidence their guy will trounce Obama; Clinton supporters concentrate on Obama's problems in traditional swing states Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania...
May 14, 2008
Be Like Bush
President Bush revealed in an interview yesterday that he has given up golfing because we're at war. At last! Something common Americans can do to show real support for the troops! I call on every American to give up golf for the duration! You can dust off your clubs in a mere 95 more years...
May 4, 2008
Copeland Stands by His Man McDowell
Kudos to Aaron Nathans at The News Journal for spotlighting Harris McDowell's shenanigans with the Sustainable Energy Utility. It laid out the details economically, and ended with three paragraphs that should end all pretense by Republicans that Senate Minority Leader Charlie Copeland isn't in lockstep with McDowell:
---Copeland said the SEU concept is a good one, and environmentalists should put aside their differences with McDowell and embrace it...
April 30, 2008
Fight or Finished?
Listening to Barack Obama's "angry" denunciation of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright yesterday, I started to understand why he fails to connect with some people...
April 24, 2008
General Assembly Limits Education Cuts
An unexpected decision capped an active day in Dover -- Our Leaders concluded that an 8% cut in education budgets would traumatize the state's schools, possibly for years, so they mandated a more manageable 3% instead...
April 22, 2008
Call In the National Guard?
Norman Oliver no longer holds a seat on Wilmington's City Council, but he hasn't lost his knack for controversial statements. During an interview with Allan Loudell for today's Noon News, Stormin' Norman declared that the National Guard should be called out to restore law and order to the streets of Wilmington...
April 21, 2008
What Motivates McDowell?
Jason Scott over at Delaware Liberal has an excellent post on Harris McDowell and what might lie behind his opposition to the Bluewater Wind project. In short, it's more about power than money...
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