Longtime Delaware civil rights activist Littleton Mitchell, 90, has died in a car accident. Mitchell was a Tuskeegee Airmen and served for 30 years as president of the state’s NAACP chapter.
Governor Markell signed SB 84 yesterday, giving de facto parents official recognition for the purposes of custody and parental rights.
I rushed out to buy the dead tree version of the Washington Post this morning, and my interview for the Federal Eye column has been reduced to the following sentence: “Delaware observers expect that Castle and Biden will run [for Kaufman’s seat].” Pfft. Well duh. Obviously I was just “on background.” That is why Delaware Liberal and our counterparts on the left and right exist in Delaware blogosphere, to fill in the gaps left behind by our national and local media.
A must read Eugene Robinson this morning:
John McCain should publicly apologize for putting the nation he loves at risk by choosing Palin as his running mate … The reasons she gave for stepping down are not just contrived or implausible but literally nonsensical … The thing is, Palin’s unsuitability for high public office has been obvious all along …
There are basically two reasons the political class and the commentariat continue to speak and write about Palin as if she were a substantial figure whose presence on the national stage is anything but a cruel, unfunny joke. The first is fear — not of Palin and her know-nothing legions, but of being painted as elitist and sexist. […] The other reason Palin is taken more seriously than she deserves is that she has a constituency. Heaven help us.
Actually, she does have a constitutency, and that makes her a player in politics, but her constituency makes her so toxic that she can never be elected President of the United States and anyone thinking otherwise is so delusional that committment to a mental health institution is in their future. Thus, if Palin and her crazed legions want to run in 2012 or 2016, I say go for it, for that means Democratic victory.
The South Carolina state GOP has censured Governor Mark Sanford.
The formal reprimand passed by the SC GOP states that Governor Sanford failed to act in accordance with the core principals and beliefs of the Republican Party. The declaration called the censure appropriate and said it would be the last word on the matter.
That was quick. For when a Democratic President had an affair that he lied about, we Americans had to endure 13 months of impeachment proceedings. And Governor Palin complains about double standards.