Tonight in NY 23 the Stalinistacons who knocked out the NY State GOP candidate managed to deftly throw the seat to the Democrat. So this is what this fratricidal movement ordered. And it smells very familiar, a true “family” recipe. NY Times: SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — Democrats won a special election in New York State’s … Read more
Republican Dede Scozzafava (which might mean “tainted beans” in Italian) showed moxie yesterday. The far right had sent up and promoted an extremist to run against her and the Democrat. Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson and others endorsed and pumped large sums to this candidacy, perverting the small Upstate NY Congressional race. On Saturday Dede dropped … Read more
Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) has been an outspoken critic of the GOP and their comatose status on health care. Here’s a portrait for tomorrow’s NY Times Week-In-Review, concerning times when pols speak out, and when they don’t.
After Harry Reid finally announced he would send up a bill containing a public option regardless of who didn’t like it, he called his doctor in the middle of the night in a panic. The doctor told him to relax; it was only late-onset spinal growth. And that it wasn’t a pre-existing condition.
Investigative reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine reveals the number of US drone strikes in Pakistan has risen dramatically since President Obama took office. During his first nine-and-a-half months in office, Obama authorized as many CIA aerial attacks in Pakistan as President Bush did in his final three years in office. At any … Read more
