What has become as toxic as the Fresh Kills landfill, but doesn't smell as good?
Michael Grimm. Romney Returns Grimm’s Cash capitaltonightny.ynn.com
The DCCC did a poll in Grimm's district and found voters preferred "None of the Above"
So they nominated him. In Crucial Race, Mark Murphy, a Democrat, Seeks Traction www.nytimes.com
Query: does Marty Golden's consultant give him a volume discount when he produces the same piece twice? Democrats Frankly Irked By Similarities In Marty Golden Campaign And Government Mailings www.nydailynews.com
In an effort to disprove the nefarious stereotype that all Jews are smart, David Storobin spent time campaigning in a spot nowhere near his new district. Salita The Boxer and Storobin The Senator « BOXING and MMA News | Website Updated 24/7 www.boxingandmmanews.com
Pretty In Pink, But In The Red [Don't Believe the Jype] Department: "A just-released campaign finance report shows that with Election Day less than a month away, [Mindy] Meyer has not raised a single penny, and is $840 in debt." De Blasio's brain drain www.crainsnewyork.com
Meyer holds a fundraiser attended by 15 people and a live elephant present to represent the Party on whose line she does not appear. ‘Pink’ elephant: Magenta Yenta’s circus stunt www.nypost.com
Rich Democratic political neophyte finds that all the money in the world can't clear the primary field and switches parties.
I swear I've seen this movie, what's on HBO?
If I was at the press conference, my first two questions would be:
1) Who are you voting for for President?
2) Exactly what was the story with Chris Bragg being fired? The Great Switcheroo politicker.com
"Mr. Allon said he's becoming a Republican due to "systemic corruption" in the Democratic Party and because he believes he's more ideologically "in sync with the liberal Republican wing of the GOP."
By "systemic corruption", Allon means leadership which cannot prevent primaries.
By "in sync with the liberal Republican wing of the GOP," he means his natural base of support does not exist. Party Switch Could Alter 2013 Race online.wsj.com
Cuomo backs a State Senate Democrat [Who backs Dean Skelos and can't lose]. Andrew Cuomo To Back IDC's David Carlucci www.nydailynews.com
A nice corrective to all the George Romney hagiography propounded by people like me. And, despite it all, I still think Mitt is unworthy of scraping the shit off the old man's shoes. Making Mitt: The Myth Of George Romney www.buzzfeed.com
David Stockman dissects vulture "capitalism" and finds the knick-name only half right:
"Mitt Romney was not a businessman; he was a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, and stripped businesses. He did not build enterprises the old-fashioned way—out of inspiration, perspiration, and a long slog in the free market fostering a new product, service, or process of production. Instead, he spent his 15 years raising debt in prodigious amounts on Wall Street so that Bain could purchase the pots and pans and castoffs of corporate America, leverage them to the hilt, gussy them up as reborn “roll-ups,” and then deliver them back to Wall Street for resale—the faster the better.
That is the modus operandi of the leveraged-buyout business, and in an honest free-market economy, there wouldn’t be much scope for it because it creates little of economic value. But we have a rigged system—a regime of crony capitalism—where the tax code heavily favors debt and capital gains, and the central bank purposefully enables rampant speculation by propping up the price of financial assets and battering down the cost of leveraged finance." Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer www.thedailybeast.com
Puzzled by competing sets of statistics, Kinsley suggests we instead try logical thinking.
Obviously, he is biased in favor of the Democrats. Check Arguments, Not Facts www.bloomberg.com
When I look at the amazing number of back flips in this man's career, I gotta believe that his obit appearing next to Arlen Specter's is no coincidence.
Does that make Rick Santorum Arlen’s Pol Pot? Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian Leader Through Shifting Allegiances, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com
Sarah Silverman's dad and Rabbi Yaakov Rosenblatt are the best Jewish vaudeville act since Orthodox Pundit Orthodox Pundit and Yossi Gestetner. Sarah Silverman's Dad Gets in Commenting War With Dickish Rabbi jezebel.com