I can't blame liberals and Dems for being angry, and I won't even squawk if a considerable number play some kabuki and vote no, as long as they provide enough votes to pass the damn thing.
But elections have consequences and we got our ass handed to us; and governing has responsibilities. So before one starts calling for blood to run in the streets, ask yourself what viable choice the President really had.
What Were Obama's Real Options? andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com
Huntsman is the only grown-up in the GOP room, so I guess we can count him out as a possible nominee. Among G.O.P. Hopefuls, Only Huntsman Supports Budget Deal www.nytimes.com
I Hope someone eventually puts up a decent obit for this early sixties pap idol who developed a political consciousness at the end of that decade (See “Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse”) and came up with one of my favorite political catchphrases.
He tried to keep it real, "Compared to What?"
With all the squawking on the left about Obama and the deal, that phrose seems especially pertinent today. Eugene McDaniels, sang and wrote hits of '60s and '70s, dies at 76 – JSOnline www.jsonline.com
Some rather timely thoughts about the Jewish vote, including some observations about the Palin effect I myself made in 2008.
I think this too article blithely dismisses some really serious long term trends, and ignores some of its own points. If Jews rallied back to Obama because of Palin, that does not necessarily prove that all is roses; it just proves that a less scary GOP ticket might pick up more Jewish support.
Christian Wrong – by Michelle Goldberg > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life www.tabletmag.com
A Jewish leftist gives some wise advice to the Israel left. Dissent Magazine – Arguing The World – Flags – www.dissentmagazine.org
Azi observes that both Weprin and Turner are now to the right of Bibi.
And if I were running in the 9th, that's exactly where I'd want to be too.
Report: ’67 Borders Agreement | PolitickerNY www.politickerny.com
Apologies are owed: A few months ago I called the preferred Republican prospect for Carl Kruger's Senate seat “The 18 Million Dollar Man” in honor of the size of the pork sandwich the Senate GOP gave local ultra-orthodox institutions to seal the deal.
This was unfair; I should have called him the $23 million dollar man. GOP Makes Play for Boro Park | PolitickerNY www.politickerny.com
Though I am a critic of using discretionary funds to bribe the ultra-Orthodox community (as opposed to funding their rather profuse legitimate needs), and as someone also not enamored of vigilantes, I still must point out that the City has funded "Operation Interlock/Interwatch" on the wealthy Upper East Side and the Muslim affiliated UMMA patrol in Flatbush. Maybe, as the author here believes, civilian patrols are a waste of money, but this is not strictly a Jewish problem. Orthodox cops: Separate and unequal www.nypost.com
An aide to Markowitz said his trips abroad are not an issue because they were legally OK "All of the required information about the trips, including spousal disclosure, was properly filed..."
Which, as usual for Markowitz, misses the point. His flacks made the same statement when challenged about Community Board appointments.
But even granting that he was within his legal rights to take these trips doesn't make taking them good public policy. Free-quent flier Marty cashes in on junkets www.nypost.com
Gatemouth identifies a political consultant having a bad day. Is There a Problem, Photographer? | PolitickerNY www.politickerny.com
Thomas the Tank Engine a manifestation of the British Imperial Class System? I said this all three years ago Thomas the Tank Engine: The popular children's show is sadly nostalgic for British imperialism. www.slate.com
From now on, we’re calling him Rock Flack-shaw.
There are an awful lot of words in Rock’s latest flatulation, many of them foul, abusive lies, some of which meet the standard of “actual malice.”
But the raving rants were so hard to read that I stopped.
Can someone tell me if he ever gets to the part where he admits that
blogging about a politician while being paid by that pol and not disclosing to one’s readers for over a year after he’d done it is wrong?
Can someone tell me if he ever gets to the part where he apologizes?
I seem to have missed those.
Rock does spend a lot of time denying something I never said.
I never said Rock was paid $2,600 a piece, the same way Rock argues that he never said that the DA used the powers of his office to try to swing the outcome of an election.
Innocent little Rocky merely raised the question; he did not answer it.
And I did the same thing.
On purpose to prove a point.
How does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot, Rock?
I would also like to note some of this is a rerun; Rock previously raised most of the false and ludicrous allegations about my supposed practice of Election Law a few weeks ago.
He probably had to know that many of the things he said were lies the first time he said them.
But surely he knew it before he repeated those lies and added to them this time around, since several weeks ago I refuted those lies point by point.
His repeating them again evinces a reckless disregard for the truth.
Not that that is anything new for him.
Yet he persists in stating that I “was hired many times to knock me (as a candidate/and/ or my fellow-insurgents) off the ballot.”
All right motherfucker, I dare you; name the cases.
He can’t, because, except in the one case I’ve noted in the link, there weren’t any.
Fact is, to the extent I ever worked as an election lawyer (a period which ended almost a decade ago), my work was almost entirely in helping people submit petitions which would ensure they were not knocked off the ballot.
And since I not done any Election Law for nearly a decade assertions like these are pretty psychotic (and might have qualified as such even when I did practice):
“He is one of those county-hatchet-men from the Dems party-machine. They are the ones who tear apart the petitions of insurgents, so that they could be prevented from exercising their constitutional right to seek public office. He is some idealist; isn’t he?
And that’s what they call democracy in Brooklyn’s political circles. Gatemouth is a political hit-man. He is a hired “Have Gun Will Travel”/ “Mr. Paladin”. For the right price he can be purchased to undermine democracy.”
Flack-shaw, can you back up your allegations with even one fact? The Court files are open to the public. The campaign fiancé reports are as well. Find my notice of appearance in any case. Find where I was paid.
I dare you.
If you can’t put up, and are then unwilling to admit you are wrong and apologize, then you have proven that you are a worthless liar.
Not that any further proof is really necessary.
If you were a Mamet character, someone would say about you that “you squat to pee.” HOW I WISH IT WERE TRUE | Room Eight www.r8ny.com