The New York State Senate gridlock continues, unabated. From the LAT:
“…lawmakers have convened dueling sessions — each claiming legitimacy — huffed over which party should lead members in the Pledge of Allegiance and fought about whether a Republican lawmaker…
This is a screenshot from Paul Krugman’s column on the conservative media cuddling up with the lunatic fringe.
Krugman’s points are well-taken, but I guess the ad sales department didn’t get the memo. Is the NYT really that hard up…
Insert here my obligatory–but genuine–praise for Rudy Giuliani’s handling of the immediate aftermath of September 11.
OK, the guy is still a master of political expedience:
“Once upon a time, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was a social…
The President has a lot on his plate, just ask him:
“Do I wish that I had the luxury of maybe dealing with one monumental problem at a time during the course of the year? Of course and in fact,…
Bummer. As Gawker via TPM is reporting, Bobby Jindal didn’t just give a mediocre response to Obama’s address to Congress on Tuesday, he lied to boot.
Turns out Jindal’s story about he and the late Sheriff Harry Lee of Jefferson…
George Stephanopoulos sums up the problems facing Roland “Can’t Touch This” Burris with the words of a nameless Democrat in Congress: “He’s in deep shit.”
It now seems Burris perjured himself before the Illinois legislature, if not by commission than…
No shit.
Shout-out to Alex Koppelman for the story.
If you thought that the era of truthiness was over, and that the reality-based community was poised to stage a comeback, you’d be wrong.
Enter Rod Blagojevich–a used-condom salesman of a politician–and his pending federal indictment for attempting to auction…
We knew this was coming. Rod Blagojevich plans to appoint former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to Obama’s vacated Senate seat, despite threats from the Senate Democratic caucus not to seat anyone appointed by Blago.
Read the Politico story here.…
So, on a bus ride into Manhattan today, I finally got around to picking over the latest issue of Harper’s (the incongruity of the bourgeois mag and the proletarian mode of transport didn’t escape me).
In it, I was treated to…
