Best unintentional pun of the week:

GLID Backs Connor, Tingling

GLID happens to be the Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, and it would not seem unusual for one getting “backed” by the Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats to feel a tingle (I mean, they are an important club), or maybe it is GLID which is feeling the tingle from backing Connor.

The following appeared in Wednesday’s politico.com, concerning the start of Gay marriage in California:

http://www.politico.com/playbook/

***LEADING REPUBLICANS THINK THIS HELPS McCAIN BY GIVING CONSERVATIVES SOMETHING TO MOTIVATE THEM. A smart Republican: “It always helps to remind voters that regardless of their feelings for President Bush, the last eight years have seen the judicial benches filled with conservatives and this type of behavior is directly linked to activist judges and Democrats.

From Tuesday’s New York Sun –

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/stalking-horse-on-the-loose/80015/

But clearly, Mr. Silver is taking this race seriously. He's marshalling the resources of the Working Families Party and, according to a source, has hired a legislative aide to conduct opposition research on Mr. Newell, but not on Mr. Henry. On Friday, his campaign blanketed the East Village with fliers announcing in three languages (English, Spanish, and Chinese) that Mr. Silver was setting up a mobile district office to hear constituent complaints.

Today in the New York Post newspaper, columnist Fred Dicker sure lived up to his last name, since someone is surely going to get screwed by his front-page article. He reported that in private conversations, N.Y. Governor David Paterson said that, “Mayor Michael Bloomberg (NYC) is a nasty, tantrum-prone liar”. Dicker further states that Paterson claimed, “It is obvious that Bloomberg has little use for the kind of people who comes from Queens and Staten Island”. He further says of Bloomberg, that “you can’t trust him”. Look, I am not going to rehash the history of this dust-up; you can do your own research by going through the last four weeks of newspapers in this naked city. Also, I am not going to repeat all that Dicker claimed to have been said by our Cinderella governor (including the Spitzer comparison); go buy the paper yourself. I am however, going to accept (for now) that all of Dicker’s statements are true; at least until they are refuted or disclaimed by the governor.

In fairness to the Queens County Democratic insurgents I recently attacked here for party disloyalty, I print this clarification.

Where previously I’d implied that State Senate hopeful Albert Baldeo was an untrustworthy character, this week Baldeo proved himself good to his word.

There is an affordable housing crisis in the United States, one that the Congress is struggling to address. The so-called crisis is that housing is getting more affordable. The generations now in power consider this a crisis because they were counting on being able to sell their homes to younger people at inflated prices, consigning them to a life of poverty, to finance a retirement that hasn’t saved for. The wealthy consider it a crisis because they are taking losses on mortgage bonds, and those who manage their money might receive somewhat less inflated pay packages next year. And those in some suburbs consider it a crisis because housing in their neighborhood might become affordable to someone no wealthier than they were when they first purchased, and different from them in other respects. So after 15 years of reductions in subsidies for the poorest, with public housing and Section 8 vouchers a perennial target of scorn, we now see desperate calls for the government to take on hundreds of billions of dollars in future liabilities to subsidize the past purchase of McMansions, and the hocking of houses to buy SUVs and plasma screen TVs and settle gambling debts for the ever-growing casino industry.

What everyone seems to be forgetting, is that housing becoming more affordable is a huge benefit to most current Americans, and all future Americans. And what everyone seems to be forgetting is that many if not most of those who will be forced to pay back those billions of dollars in future liabilities have probably been worse off, on average, than those who borrowed, spent, and are now facing foreclosure, and those who lent to them.

Will Barack Obama please have the Democratic Party Rules Committee restore the four piddling delegates it took away from Hillary in Michigan? 

I know winning these delegates was an important victory for him, because after all, without them it would have taken an additional three and one half minutes to clinch the party’s nomination. Nonetheless, I implore him to forgo this ill-gotten gain so that those Hillary supporters who refuse to wake up and smell the coffee (I myself am fully caffeinated, and these days I take my coffee like my new candidate: not too light, and not too sweet) will have one less inconsequential complaint to whine about.  

COMO'S VICTORY COULD IMPACT STATE SENATE RACE-NY Daily News, June 5^th, 2008

From the Boston Globe –

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/11/mccain_ad_asserts_his_hatred_of_war/

By Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff  |  June 11, 2008

WASHINGTON – John McCain, who credits his defiant defense of the Iraq war for his comeback victory in the Republican primaries, is using his first major television ad of the general election to show his dovish side.

"Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war," McCain says over mournful strings against a bleak backdrop, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. "I hate war, and I know how terrible its costs are."

The following appeared on politico.com:

After McCain said last year that Rumsfeld, Cheney’s friend and mentor in the Ford administration, would “go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history,” the vice president made plain his displeasure.

“I just fundamentally disagree with John,” Cheney told ABC News in an interview. “John said some nasty things about me the other day, and then next time he saw me, ran over to me and apologized. Maybe he’ll apologize to Rumsfeld.”