Delaware Liberal

am in the process of reviewing and updating our blogroll on the right side of the blog. Since the last time I did a roll call of the Delaware Blogosphere, a number of sites have come and gone. If you have a local Delaware political blog that you run or read, let me know about it here in the comments. Tomorrow, I have have a review of each and an updated blogroll on the front page, and each week, I will be resuming my "Delaware Dem's Round Up" of local blog posts about local news and politics.

The Republicans in Congress are taking a polling hit from their economic terrorism. Not that they care.

Talk about your local, sometimes non-political news stories here, or talk about the political stories we aren't talking about... yet.

For the second time in a month, New Castle County Executive Paul Clark has replaced a longtime member of the Planning Board who has a history of objecting to Paul Clark's development projects. This time it was Victor Singer, the board chairman for the last 13 years. Last time it was 16 year veteran Mark Weinberg, who believes the fact that he opposed many developers represented by Paul Clark's wife, Pam Scott, led to his outser.

The heat is on Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart this morning after an audit of her department finds that her office awarded $16.1 million in contracts without following procedures under state procurement law, including maintenance of signed contracts and complete vendor files. To be clear, it is not like there is $16.1 million missing, but since procedures were not followed in assigning and maintaining these contracts, we have to wonder if the awarding of the contracts themselves are on the up and up.

"It is far too early for me to tell you who the statewide candidates are. We are looking at these things. We're all focused on one thing -- ending one-party rule in Delaware." So said new Republican state chair John Sigler to Celia Cohen last month. Is it me, or is it kind of embarrassing for a major party state chair to refer to his state as a one party state, and his party is not the one party to which he refers. With absolutely no respect to John Sigler, it is not too early. It is getting too late for the state GOP. To beat Jack Markell and Tom Carper they will need millions of dollars, for each race. And the conundrum for the Delaware Republican Party is that the only candidates who can win their primaries and rake in national money are unelectable Teabaggers like Christine O'Donnell.

The whole point of the Standard & Poor’s downgrade was to cast doubt on U.S. debt, given the political instability caused by unhinged Republicans. And the first trading after the S&P downgrade, anxiety-ridden investors turned to … U.S. debt.

Once a century, a Fox News anchor gets it right. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had the disgustingly evil radio talk show host Mike Gallagher on her show this afternoon, and she played back audio from the time when he said on his show: "Megyn's still on maternity leave, isn't she? Boy, what a racket that is." She promptly destroys him. Click through for the video and the transcript.

In 25 states, the governor and lieutenant governor are elected on the same ticket, ensuring that they come from the same political party. In the remaining 18 states, like Delaware, they are elected separately and, thus, may come from different parties. Castle and Cohen want to do away with the separate elections, while Lt. Governor Denn is just fine with it. Your thoughts?

Gallup has just released a report regarding its findings from its polling from January until June of this year of each individual state. Gallup interviewed 90,000 American adults over the course of the last six month, and they found that the President is above 50% in approval in 16 states, including many important swing states.

Talk about your local, sometimes non-political news stories here, or talk about the political stories we aren't talking about... yet.

I always love it when I am told when and where it is appropriate to discuss something, although I do admire the real skill and concurrent idiocy that Joe Klein displays in contradicting himself one sentence later in telling us how crucial the discussion is.