Delaware Liberal

It finally looks like Harry Reid has been convinced to rein in the principal form of GOP obstruction in the Senate -- the filibuster.  And it doesn't look like he'll eliminate it -- but reform it so that it takes some committed work to block the Senate's work.  Apparently some of the rules revisions are still being thought out, but so far, the rules would change as follows:

I am new to this AMC series 'The Walking Dead', but I've noticed a leitmotif. There seems to be an element of ongoing tension between people who have completely written off the zombies as non-human, and the people who continue to think (in spite of all the evidence) that zombies must retain some bit of humanity. Exactly the type of tension that arises among Democrats. Some of whom see reality as it is, and know that Republicans have become ideological zombies, totally bereft of humanity. Others of whom would like to continue to pretend that there must be some humanity somewhere under the ideological zombie flesh.

Back story: Mike Castle was this moderate Congressman from Delaware until George W. Bush was elected. Then Castle had to pretend to be moderate while voting for every bit of George Bush's lunatic agenda. That (the pretending to be moderate) pissed off a bunch of easily pissed off people in his lunatic political party. I lay that bit of the story out in Castle's political obituary running in this month's 'Delaware Today' magazine:

Back in August, Governor Markell signed three pieces of legislation designed to update the state's campaign finance regulations.  These new regulations are required to be implemented by  December 31, 2012.  As part of the process, the new regulations were posted in November 1, and  Public Hearings are set for Thursday, November 29, 2012:

You may have heard of this group back in late October, when a group of 80+ CEOs signed a letter to Washington that asks Congress work out a deficit-reduction deal that calls for both increases revenues and cuts spending. This letter (and the launch of this group) had enough of the optics of bipartisanship that Senator Chris Coons rushed out with a statement that endorsed this "balanced approach" to deficit reduction. You can see something of these optics in the Statement of Principles that these CEOs published:

The Democratic Agenda Rahm Emanuel: "Too much post-election analysis has focused on voter demographics and campaign mechanics, leaving Democrats in danger of drawing the wrong lessons from our electoral success." "Demographics alone are not destiny....

State Legislature: "Tell me about it." If you read that NJ story, Atkins is revealed to be a total idiot and an irresponsible dick. He put guards in danger, gets them in trouble with their superiors and mocks them - just for good measure.