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Democratic Club of Worcester County

Welcome

Tom Wilson
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Welcome to the Democratic Club of Worcester County

The purpose of the Democratic Club of Worcester County is to promote participation in the Democratic Party through voter registration, voting, social gatherings, educational activities, publicity and support of Democratic candidates at all levels.  The club strives to be fully involved in the democratic process in Worcester County and in the State of Maryland and seeks to identify and support candidates for office at every level. 

Since its founding in 1995, our club has grown steadily and now has more than 150 members.  We work hard and have fun.  In addition to monthly meetings we have an annual labor day picnic, a Christmas party and various other events throughout the year.  We frequently collaborate with our fellow Democratic Clubs in the county - the Democratic Women's Club and the Ocean City/Assateague Democratic Club.  Members receive a monthly newsletter.

If you're a registered Democrat consider joining our club, we would love to have you!  In the meantime enjoy browsing our website and finding out more about the club. 

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Last Updated on Sunday, 01 February 2009 17:10
 

GOP

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What's Grand about the Grand Old Party?

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 March 2010 17:33
 

Website Changes

Tom Wilson
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Website Changes

Some of you may have noticed that there have been a few changes to our website over the past few weeks.  Here's a summary of the changes:

  • The forum is gone.  It was not being used and was just taking up space.
  • Comments on articles are not allowed!  At the bottom of each article there's a button to allow you to make a comment.
  • We have a new calendar on the front page.  It's on the left hand side just below the 'Latest News' section. Right now the calendar shows all scheduled events for the three democratic clubs and the central committee.  If I can get some help I'll expand it to include more items.  Let me know if you have suggestions.
  • Just below the calendar, I've added a little widget to show the temperature and wind in Ocean Pines. 
  • I've added a new category of links called 'Maryland Blogroll'.  It includes some of the progressive blogs in Maryland.  I urge you to check them out, especially 'Lost on the Shore'.  I know the guy who writes that.
  • Also check out the Worcester County Blogroll, especially 'Maryland on my Mind'.  Bernie writes a great blog about Ocean City.

There will be more to come.  Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments on the web site.

-Tom

 

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Progress in Health Care Reform

Tom Wilson
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Progress in Health Care Reform

Now that the House and Senate have each passed their version of Health Care Reform, it's time to put them together into a single bill, have both houses pass that bill and send it to the President for signature.  Given the unified Republican opposition to anything and everything and the unwillingness of the 'Party of No' to any health care reform at all, the Democratic leadership has decided to forego a conference committee.

A conference committee would require the appointment of conferees from both parties in both houses and would have the ability to tie up the legislation for many months.  Rather, the Democratic leadership in both houses will sit down and hammer out differences in the bills to come up with a unified bill which can pass both houses.

For your information I have attached a brief analysis of the bills passed by each house.

 

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 10:36
 

Nonsense about Deficits

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Stop Blaming Obama for the Deficit

The Republicans make a great show of being newly 'fiscally responsible' and deploring the Federal debt run up under President Obama.  But, like those who claim that taxes have gone up (that will be another article), they are deliberately ignoring the facts.  Let's look at our first graph:

deficits under Bush and Obama

President Bush made a deliberate policy of cutting taxes for the wealthy while the Republicans who controlled Congress for much of the period went on a spending binge.  As a result, the hard work that President Clinton had done to turn an inherited deficit into a surplus was wiped away and more.

Now let's look at the claims that President Obama is not doing anything about the recesssion.  Who's recession is it anyway.  This graph tells the story pretty well.

GDP by quarter

While we're far from being out of the woods, the economy is moving in the right direction.  But there's a lot of concern out there about jobs.  Certainly more needs to be done to stimulate job creation, but the rate of job loss has slowed dramatically under President Obama, as this chart shows:

 

Job losses by month under Bush and Obama

We can see that substantial progress has been made.  Is there a long way to go?  For sure, but under President Obama we've begun moving in the right direction.

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Lies and the Truth about Health Care Reform

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Truth and Lies about Health Care Reform

It seems clear by now that the right wing fanatics have decided to try to stop health care reform by the simple tactic of telling lies about it and shouting down anyone who tries to correct the lies.  There is a lot of muddled thinking about health reform on the right exemplified by their leader, Rush Limbaugh, who publicly displays his ignorance of political philosophy and history by calling President Obama, at various times, a ‘Communist', a ‘Socialist', a ‘Fascist', and a ‘Nazi' - diametrically opposite philosophies.

So, let's take a look at the biggest lies the right is shouting about health care reform and see what the truth is:

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