Gov. John Carney officially announced his candidacy for mayor of Wilmington Monday. If he succeeds, it would mark one of the biggest self-demotions since ex-President John Quincy Adams was elected to Congress. If he fails, it would be even more embarrassing.
It must be the season for political comebacks. DL patron saint Howard Dean is considering a run for governor of Vermont, two decades after he left the office to run for president. If he takes the plunge, he should promise not to scream.
It appears the uproarious MTG finally overplayed her hand. Her GOP colleagues are cold-shouldering her threat to oust House speaker Moses Mike Johnson, mainly because Democrats have made clear they’ll rescue him. Kind of amazing it took this long for Democrats to make common cause with the non-nutjob faction of the GOP to marginalize that party’s loonball minority. Makes one think that maybe they aren’t all that good at this.
Pro-Palestine protests on college campuses have roiled – well, they haven’t roiled much more than a bunch of talking heads, but boy are those heads roiled. In an echo of Israel’s genocidal overreaction to Oct. 7, university administrators have called in the cops, threatened to expel student protesters, a whole gamut of overreactions that have pundits citing Kent State. These are colleges, mind you, which tidily disproves Santayana – even those who remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The floor’s yours.