Delaware Liberal

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.

Is she running for something else already? Is she waiting for a "sign removal" grant to come through from the nanny state? Don't campaign's have a deadline for getting down the signs?

Of all the minor emergencies that float through ones mind as you prepare to host relatives for Thanksgiving dinner, a collapsing sink is not one of them.