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The fact that Bill Clinon is aiding President Obama, is that a sign that Hillary Clinton won't run against Obama.
Some Democrats in Congress are denying the reality of the past election. They are angry over the Democrats loss of the House to Republicans and are letting their anger rule over reason by attacking President Obama for making a tax deal with Republicans in nothing less than Clintonesque fashion.
SENATOR RUBEN DIAZ, SR: I’d like to know if my colleagues in the New York State Senate – especially those who consider themselves purists – plan to do to something to Senator Kevin Parker now that he has been convicted of two misdemeanors.
Cathie Black, the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, is taking issue with reports suggesting that she was not Mayor Bloomberg’s first choice to be schools chancellor, saying the mayor told her personally that he had not offered the job to anyone else. Black appeared Friday on Good Day New York.
The New York Times and Daily News reported today that Mr. Bloomberg had originally tried but failed to persuade Geoffrey Canada, a Harlem education leader, to take the job.
Governor Paterson, in an attempt to justify his giving $16.7 million in discretionary money to among others, the millionaire owners of the NFL in support of the Super Bowl in New Jersey, said –
“This money, it is not spent. It could not be used to save jobs, and could not be sent back to the treasury,”
Some Americans like to think that they are better than others that all other countries are inferior to their nation in all respects. This type of self proclaimed patriot is found throughout the world in most countries. Orhan Pamuk writes of certain “ideologues of the Turkish state who expressed their nationalism in unlovely and unadorned authoritarian rhetoric…”
People in education, who knew that this was coming along with the expiration of federal stimulus money for education and state budget cuts, didn't want the job of presiding over the re-decline of the NYC schools. When Bloomberg said that if Black didn't get the job no one else would take it, he apparently wasn't just making it up.
I've been charitable with Andrea Peyser, assuming that she was just too stupid to be held accountable for the outrageous things she say, but today
MSM reporters should read this article, in which a Los Angeles Times reporter admits the press failed to cover a massive 1999 pension enhancement that has devasted public services for millions of people for years to come in California. "The bill won approval on the final day of the state legislative session in the fall of 1999. But searching this week for contemporaneous coverage of the law, I found little to nothing. Reporters…gave plenty of attention to an agreement that would allow an expansion of Indian gambling operations around California. A lot of attention also went to a couple of bills that cracked down on illegal sweatshops. Another piece of legislation, providing gay students a legal shield against abuse, also made front-page news. But SB 400 got only a handful of mentions."
New York's similar pension deal passed in 2000. A massive pension increase for NYC teachers passed in 2008, casually mentioned at the end of a press conference on horse racing. The NYC teacher pension is now one of the most underfunded in the country. For years, amidst strident conflict over symbolic social issues breathlessly covered by the press, Generation Greed has sold out our collective future all but ignored (boring!), and not just on pensions. It's a disgrace.
