Yes, she’s the County Leader’s cousin, but Liz Crowley ain't happening for the Weiner seat.
A non-Jewish Democrat makes a Republican victory in the special more likely. Plus, in the event that she won, her only hope in the long run would be to pick up more white Christians in reapportionment, and the only way to pick them up is at the expense of her cousin, County Leader Joe, and that ain't happening, unless he's retiring, which he‘s not. The Brooklyn Politics Blog www.thebrooklynpolitics.com
Crowley may be unlikely, but her name being floated does not seem connected to any recent bouts of crack smoking intense enough to make one see visions of leprachauns guarding pots of gold at the end of the special election rainbow.
Contrast yis to the trial balloon (something, by definition, full of hot air) of Labor Lawyer Cody McCone.
The Daily News says that McCone has been "approached" about running for Congress.
Where?
At the bar at the Gerristen Beach Chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians? Perhaps at the Breezy Point Chapter of the Donegal Society?
McCone does have some record of civic activism, but that activism has been (aside from Irish issues) confined to Bay Ridge (a 20 minute ride to the district's closest point), where Cody got his clocked cleaned in a City Council race 14 years ago.
McCone's big pitch to Jewish voters is that his law partner's father once ran guns to Israel. Brooklyn Eagle, Bay Ridge Eagle Brooklyn, NY :: daily paper in Brooklyn www.brooklyneagle.com
Quote of the week:
Mike Tobman: “Like the departing incumbent, some people enjoy the chase more than the day-to-day grind of work, and it’d be difficult for someone like that to pass up a campaign even if it gets you a short-lived gig.”. For Weiner’s Successor, Perhaps, Lame-Duck Status www10.nytimes.com
The right wingers stalking Weiner were certainly creepy, but even creepier here is the evidence that Weiner knew he was being stalked and that attempts were being made to entrap him, and continued to do his twat-seeking tweets anyway.Fake Identities Were Used on Twitter to Get Information on Weiner www10.nytimes.com
In connection with Weiner, Maddow says Dems have damaged themselves "for a generation."
I she nuts?
She uses the word “unhinged,” but the most "unhinged" thing here is her comment.
Unless Weiner gets a TV gig or talk radio gig, he’ll be forgotten in a month.
Want proof he'll be forgotten?
Weiner is the third member of Congress (and the first Democrat) to resign this year because of a sex scandal; the second to resign without any allegation of legal wrongdoing.
And yet "progressives" like Maddow are calling Weiner’s resignation unprecedented.
The internet means nothing is forgotten, but somehow everything is. Rachel Maddow: Anthony Weiner Resignation Will Damage Democrats 'For A Generation' (VIDEO) www.huffingtonpost.com
The offers are piling in. New gig for Anthony Weiner? Hustler porn mogul Larry Flynt offers disgraced sexter a job www.nydailynews.com
Continued proof that Hendrik Hertzberg has a research assistant who’s been cribbing Gatemouth.
GATEMOUTH (6/9/2011): But there are a couple of other factors here not present in the past.
The first is technology.
I wonder if Bill Clinton could have survived in 2011, with an internet paper trail, and a cell phone picture of his testes hanging down below his penis entering a mouth possessing work from some of NYC’s most expensive dentists.
Web stuff is deadly because it can be seen, and travels around the world and never leaves.
You want a parallel case to Weiner?
Don’t look to Vitter, or Ensign or Clinton.
Look to Chris Lee.
There was art on the web of his unwaxed chest.
There were future revelations about transsexual curiosity and who knows what else, just a double-click away.
HERTZBERG (6/17/2011): The bad things Weiner did do—his sins, let’s call them for convenience, without embracing the churchy implications—were, once revealed, a hundred per cent visible. And a hundred per cent of them were visible. They were a hundred per cent documented. No he said/she said this time, no need for witnesses, no need for testimony. No need for “evidence”—because the evidence was the sin, and the sin the evidence….
…Imagine, though, that nothing had been left to the imagination in certain other cases. In one such case, there was a blue dress with a stain on it. But what if there had been a video, or even a snapshot, of the moment the dress received the stain? What if the picture itself had been the whole point? What if every detail of every sex scandal of the last quarter-century, every word and every scene, had been photographed and archived, available for global retrieval at the click of a mouse
GATEMOUTH: And then there is another less talked about factor.
Weiner is pathetic.
We often tend to respect alpha men of power. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
We wink at Arnold, a manly man.
But Tony the Hot Dog is a girly man; a skinny, geeky Jewish guy who waxes his balls and whack’s his Weiner, cowardly and compulsively seeking pathetic vulnerable women for internet liaisons, all in the face of the great danger he is clearly aware of, possibly because like some man in a raincoat, the potential humiliation of getting caught is what turns him on the most, even though the only honey he ever gets on his stinger comes out of a bottle of Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion.
Eliot Spitzer may have been the only guy in Albany ever to pay for it, but at least he got some.
We may be able to forgive a President who spurts upon an intern.
But we will never ever forgive a politician whose erotic exploits would better fit as a fantasy on a Small Penis Humiliation site
For women, Weiner is merely an object of abject laughter and pity (if he‘s lucky).
For men, it is worse.
Weiner reminds us of our deepest and most shameful insecurities.
And for that, we will never, ever forgive him.
HERTZBERG: Weiner’s sins, being wholly online, basically onanistic, pathetically “immature,” and totally without direct fleshly carnality, are literally ridiculous. They lack the swaggering macho that pushes more traditional, arguably crueler male transgressions—having affairs, whoring, fathering children out of wedlock—into the comparatively (though only comparatively) safer territory of “boys will be boys” and “men are like that.”
I’ll admit that this may just be a case of great minds thinking alike, but it does seem that I keep having these nearly identical thought and publishing them before Rick does. Hendrik Hertzberg: The Sins of Anthony Weiner www.newyorker.com
Lincoln Restler is so pro-Gonzales, he's joined Jews for Jesus. The Brooklyn Politics Blog www.thebrooklynpolitics.com
1) Most surprising aspect of this story: Marty Golden is right about something
2) Least surprising: Kevin Parker is still a douchebag. Capitol Confidential » How to not pass rent regs, step-by-step blog.timesunion.com
Fish in a Barrel Department: Chait parses the logical contradictions of Ryanism. The Anti-IPAB Jihad | The New Republic www.tnr.com
"Conservative? You aren't man enough to be conservative."
Fallen leftist Hitch, who one might expect to be a sympathetic observer, takes apart Mamet's Jihad against liberalism piece by piece and then Riverdances upon it. Book Review – The Secret Knowledge – By David Mamet www10.nytimes.com