Delaware Liberal

Last week, after yet another week of anti-establishment upheavals in Europe, former Bush speechwriter and current Atlantic senior editor David Frum tweeted in despair: "I think we need a word to describe people broadly satisfied with the status quo & skeptical of radical changes based on wild promises." Frum was responding to a move by Catalonia to seek independence from Spain. But he might as well have been talking about the electoral successes of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain, which Frum also denounced last week. Frum was so distressed by all this rejecting of the status quo going on that he proposed that those "broadly satisfied" folks band together to create a political coalition: "I mean, there have to be a few of us, right? Maybe we could form a movement of some kind or form a political party with that word in it?"

I was moved by the newly adopted Democratic Party Platform. It collects a lot of our best values and highest aspirations. What it doesn't do is summarize those values into a quick elevator speech. A quick manifesto or touchstone. Here is my take on what that might look like:

He excels at indecision and lack of vision, but unforced errors are Carney's speciality. -Via BlueDelaware

As the lone vote against releasing CZA gutting (HB 190) from committee, Kowalko took the opportunity to drop a truth bomb on the process:

I can see the influence of the Bernie campaign in his document:

The party's newly approved platform, formulated over a year with statewide input, endorses: a $15 minimum wage; fighting and overturning Citizens United; fighting wealth and income inequality; a commitment to ending Super PACs; equal pay for equal work; ending mass incarceration; working toward debt-free college; expanding and investing in green energy; a commitment to mental health and substance abuse treatment; and Wall Street reform. At the meeting, the party also approved resolutions reaffirming commitment to organized labor, supporting internet privacy, opposing defunding of Planned Parenthood and overturning of Roe v. Wade, supporting a ban on gay conversion therapy, increasing young adult participation in the political process, strengthening the Voting Rights Act and "resisting the Trump agenda" which it called "destructive."

Some of it, no doubt, came as surprise to Governor Carney and Acting Governor Schwartzkopf.