Bloomie should just write us a check for the CityTime money.
It’d probably cost him less than what he really spent on his last mayoral race.
If he’s too modest to let us know it's him, he could always use the Independence Party as a conduit. Mayor Bloomberg: We Want That $600 Million We Lost In The CityTime Payroll Scandal Back www.nydailynews.com
It is my understanding that Barron held out in the Brooklyn delegation for the highest possible demand amount for the Council's ransom note to Bloomie, even though Barron was committed to voting to kill the baby even if the Mayor came up with the money. The Brooklyn Politics Blog www.thebrooklynpolitics.com
Bloomie repeats a controversial point previously made by Gate, and now I'm reconsidering its wisdom. Bloomberg: Thank Skelos For Gay Marriage www.capitaltonight.com
"We will support a Republican senator against a Democrat. We will support a Republican senator who votes ‘yes’ against a gay Democrat,"
Brian Ellner masters the essential element of single-issue politics (use of the word “single” not intentionally ironic). Quote For The Day V andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
As I said, same sex marriage is the triumph of the conservatives; more radical alternatives (even when disguised as more moderate ones) like Domestic Partnership are flying the coop. Gay Couples Losing Perks online.wsj.com
Sully defends Obama's aloofness on SSM.
Best point: saying who can get married is a State question makes the strongest, most politically salable case for DOMA's repeal.
He’s right.
The real Federal issue isn’t imposing same sex marriage on the States. This is traditionally a state law issue, and Federal imposition ain’t gonna happen.
The issue is whether the Feds will butt out and leave it to the States by repealing DOMA, which imposes the Federal position on all states whether they want it or not, by denying Federal recognition to marriages which some states recognize.
I won’t venture an opinion on whether DOMA is constitutional, but I do think it is wrong, and those conservatives who say they support Federalism and a national government of limited powers, are hypocritical to support DOMA’s continued existence.
And Obama’s position may be morally questionable and insincere, but this is a case where his lack of drive helps drive the point home. A President, Not A Governor andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
As I predicted last fall, the WFP has proven utterly useless at anything but their own self preservation:
Here’s what I said then:
1) Voting for Cuomo on the Working Families Party (WFP) line:
The Working Families Party operates on the rationale that we should send a message to Cuomo about how much we dislike his policies by casting a vote for him on the Working Families Party line.
Does anyone see the logical problem with such an action?
You do not punish someone for his positions by voting for him. Clearly, it will not work.
Why do I say this?
Because Andrew Cuomo refused the Working Families line until they agreed to knuckle under and publicly support positions that they considered to be anathema. They agreed to do so because they knew they would not attain 50,000 votes, and thereby retain their position on the ballot, if they did not have Cuomo on their line.
Andrew Cuomo is going to consider every vote the Working Families Party achieves over 50,000 (and many under that number) to be his and not theirs. If they were their votes to deliver, they would never have knuckled under, sold out, and given Cuomo the line he had so little use for.
Further, having blinked, and practically gouged their own eyes out in the course of their first confrontation, how can the Working Families Party be trusted not to fold like a deck chair in the future? Cuomo had them by their apparently non-existent balls
And here’s what City Hall News is saying today: New York’s Working Families Party Hopes Gov. Andrew Cuomo Turns Left www.cityhallnews.com
Slogan: "I have a personal relationship with Jesus" The Brooklyn Politics Blog www.thebrooklynpolitics.com
Lisa Baron, the national version of Laurie Kinsler Garson (G-d Help Us). Lisa Baron's Salacious Memoir – The Daily Beast www.thedailybeast.com
Chait agrees with Ben Smith (and I) that Obama has a problem with (some) Jewish voters, but offers a credible theory about why that might change Obama, The Jews, And September | The New Republic www.tnr.com
I don't care what state Kucinich moves to, I'm voting no! Kucinich in Syria – Ben Smith www.politico.com
The further adventures of Dennis the Menace:
If only Syrians were hamburgers, perhaps Dennis would have some sympathy for them What The Hell Is Kucinich Doing In Syria?
While I oppose raising the Medicare eligibility age, preferring removing the cap on income subject to the Social Security Tax, I agree with Chait that we cannot ignore the problems in Medicare forever, and that dissing solutions that attempt to save the system (rather than to gut it), ultimately play into the hands of the world's Ryans Give Coburn And Lieberman A Chance | The New Republic www.tnr.com
Jeff Borowitz: Michele Bachmann believes in Intelligent Design. But Intelligent Design cannot explain Michelle Bachmann.
Gate: To be fair, neither can evolution; she almost disproves natural selection.
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