Simcha Felder, a man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience, brings to mind a venerable old poem which goes something like this:
"And this is law, I will maintain
Unto my Dying Day, Sir.
That whatsoever King may reign,
I will be the Rebbe of Bray, Sir!" Simcha Felder Declares Political Free Agency | City and State www.cityandstateny.com
I 'm not one of those Democrats complaining about all the LGTB money going to the four State Senate Republicans who changed their votes on same sex marriage. However much those Senators may have problematic qualities, the LGTB community owes them.
But what about the Democratic Senators who risked their futures by changing their votes?
Where is the LGTB money for them?
Where is the LGTB money for Joe Addabbo? Ulrich Blasts Addabbo’s Gay Marriage ‘Flip-Flop’ www.capitaltonight.com
John Sampson aide Paul Rivera is my friend, but I must admit that Rivera’s 30 grand raise looks less than good (though not half as bad as putting Ravi Batra on an Ethics Panel).
Still, it is galling to see Diane Savino's cheap shot.
Senator Savino, you will have the standing to question how the State Senate Democrats chose to misallocate their meager funds on the day when you rejoin their conference. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/paul-rivera-adviser-senate-democratic-minority-leader-john-samps www.nydailynews.com
Fact check: Don’t believe the hype; John Duane was not beaten by Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide.
John Duane was beaten when the public learned the facts about the campaign Carl Kruger ran for him in 1982. Another Duane Re-enters Political Arena www.capitaltonight.com
I can't help noticing that the complaints of unfairness I receive from the ostensible supporters of Nydia Velazquez's right wing/libertarian opponent Dan O’Connor and Nydia Velazquez's ostensibly far left wing opponent, George Martinez, appear to have been written by the same person.
My bet is Erik Dilan's campaign aide Michael Olmedo, though I suppose that pro-Lopez District Leader candidate Debra Scotto's business partner, Mark Shames, cannot be ruled out.
The more you learn about Weiner, the more you're glad he’s gone:
"How much more can you reveal about a man whose erect (clothed) genitals are only a Google click away? You can reveal how much his former colleagues despised him. Weiner comes off as a buffoon with zero strategic skill and 100 percent confidence in said skill.
On MSNBC one day, when his party still controlled Congress, he claimed that a health care bill minus a public option would lose 100 votes. “That number had just popped into his head,” reports Draper. “He’d uttered it without any reason to believe it was accurate. And yet it soon became a widely quoted number.” In 2011, as his profile rose, he gave his leaders advice such as “get a hundred and fifty of us and agree not to raise the debt ceiling—that’s the Republican majority’s job.” They did not listen. Before the State of the Union, he told friendly reporters that he’d “sit next to two Republicans tonight—one I like, and one I can say ‘fuck you’ to. Just for ballast.’” Robert Draper’s history of the current House of Representatives is a study of dysfunction. www.slate.com
The Republican vision of building for the future:
If you want lower interest on student loans, the price will be preventive care.
In other words, "We will allow you to live better if you die sooner, and we will accomplish that by short term savings with dire long term consequences." Boehner: Cut ‘Obamacare’ to Stop Student Loan Rate Hike | ecreditdaily.com ecreditdaily.com
Chait defines the terms of the election:
"Obama wants the government to do a bit more to reduce inequality, but he is not proposing to change the United States’ place as the most unequal advanced economy on Earth. His opponent has adopted the position that any interference with the natural level of inequality created by the market is illegitimate. He may not want to take that philosophy to its absolute limit, but he is running on a program that would go very far toward implementing it.
The desire by Democrats to center the campaign on this basic philosophical choice is not a distraction, nor is it an attack on wealth. It’s an attempt to highlight what the election is actually about." Romney’s Radical Theory of Fairness nymag.com