Digging Out Thursday Open Thread
I hope you all enjoyed your unplanned time off yesterday. Today the state should start getting back to normal today. So what’s on your mind today?
Excellent timing! David Broder’s column says Sarah Palin must be taken “seriously” and places her in the company of other successful “populist” presidential candidates — on the same day that new WaPo polling finds 71% say she’s unqualified for presidency.
I believe the last time we talked about the inexplicably influential David Broder on this blog was when he wrote a column about the possible Castle-Biden matchup using Mike Castle press releases.
Is this the New York Governor David Paterson scandal?
The latest news: Federal prosecutors are investigating the governors awarding of a state contract to develop the dilapidated Aqueduct horse race track in Queens to a politically connected group, reports local station WPIX. Separately, the losing bidders are considering a lawsuit, the NY Post reported Tuesday.
Mr. Paterson looked over heavyweight gaming companies like Penn National Gaming and MGM Mirage and instead chose the Aqueduct Entertainment Group that has close ties to Floyd Flake, an influential Queens preacher and former congressman. Critics have blasted the choice as politically motivated. Mr. Flake had said some positive things indicating that he might throw his support behind the state’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo should he decide to run for governor. Some contend that the contract award was a way for Mr. Paterson to squash that support. A charge both men deny.
Paterson has fought back saying that the NYT is trying to ruin his reputation and he’s not leaving:
But at a Tuesday press conference, Paterson said he’s written to the NY Times suggesting he’s being slandered–and that he won’t be resigning his post as governor any time soon.
“The only way I’m not gonna be governor next year is at the ballot box, and the only way that I’ll be leaving office before is in a box,” Paterson said.
This is true, he’s likely to lose in a primary to NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, but I doubt the scandal will go away. However, if the NYT has a blockbuster, they should go ahead and publish it. I wonder what’s holding them back?
Tags: Open Thread
Can I get bragging rights? The driving ban in NCCo was lifted at noon today, just as I predicted yesterday.
Elizabeth Edwards is threatening to sue Andrew Young (the Edwards aide who helped John Edwards cover up his affair) for “alienation of affection.”
Elizabeth Edwards should put the blame where the blame belongs – on John Edwards. I’m not sure why the Edwardses are determined to turn this sordid mess into a worse sordid mess.
Angela McGlowan running for Congress. The former FAUX News talkinghead has a gift for understatement – “As for her work for Fox News, McGlowan says it’s no guarantee that voters will warm to her. “It helps me with the conservative base,” she said, “but being associated with Fox News will not win me the election.” Here’s a link to the article – http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/02/11/onetime-fox-news-analyst-angela-mcglowan-launching-house-bid/?icid=main
Save a little of your scorn for Elizabeth. The very fact that she has made the threat shows what sort of person she is.
“I’m not sure why the Edwardses are determined to turn this sordid mess into a worse sordid mess.”
My guess is it’s because, personal tragedies aside, Elizabeth is as greedy and egotistical as her husband.
I do wonder at Elizabeth’s role in this thing. Of course, she didn’t have the affair but it sounds like she had knowledge of it and still was pushing her husband’s candidacy despite it. I think she definitely had a dream to be First Lady.
“It helps me with the conservative base, but being associated with Fox News will not win me the election.”
Imagine a liberal talking head saying that being on, just for example, ABC would “help him with the liberal base.” The uncritical acceptance of people who are “in the club” reveals the juvenile, in/out acceptance those people show to anyone anointed by their leaders — and how absurd is the notion that this country has a “liberal media.”
Kentucky, the state so dumb that they can’t even spell their own name. Check out the jersey on the player sitting down.
Sorry UI.
Oh dear.
I think UI is on her way down there to slap this guy.
Oh my. Why does he have a misspelled jersey? Is this photoshop?
naw, it real
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Oops-Nike-misspells-quot-Kentcuky-quot-on-Wal?urn=ncaab,219073
it seems Nike’s problem, not the great state of Kentcuky. dumb Chinese child slave labor.
Someone should have caught that. That’s pretty embarrassing.
Bill Clinton has been hospitalized.
a. price is right, I was just busting UI’s chops.
I’ll give it a try–snoDOWN!!!
Well, where the heck was everyone? No water,phone, electric, and even the local firehouse has caved in. Our family looks like that scene from Willy Wonka, in the beginning where all the old people are in the bed under the covers.
Written on Carly Fiorina’s hand:
Bankruptcy for CA
Put budgets online
Put bills online
our boy Joe…
Then:
What happens after we surge these women and men? … General Petraeus … may be the only one who believes this is a good idea! Virtually, no one else think it’s a good idea! — Joe Biden, March 14, 2007
The first thing I’m going to do is veto that bill [for surge money] and I’m going to take out that money for those MRAPs, those vehicles to save lives over there. … I gotta kid going over there … the idea that we’re not building new Humvees with the V-shaped thing is just crap, man! Kids are dying that don’t have to die. The second thing we’re going to do is shove it down his throat. — Joe Biden, April 27, 2007
[General Patraeus is] dead, flat wrong [about trying the surge]. The fact of the matter is that there is … this idea of the security gains we made have had no impact on the underlying sectarian dynamic. None. None whatsoever. Can anybody envision a central government made up of Sunni, Shi’a, and Kurds that’s going to gain the trust and respect of 27 million Iraqis? There have been some tactical gains, but they have no ultimate bearing at this point on the prospect of there being a political settlement in Iraq that would allow American troops to come home without leaving chaos behind. — Joe Biden on “Meet the Press,” September 9, 2007
Now:
I’m very optimistic about about Iraq, and this can be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the, uh, end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. — Joe Biden on Larry King Live, February 10, 2010
Yeah, Biden really does need one of those yellow “slow child” signs in front of his official residence, doesn’t he.
UI — Now would this be the same Elizabeth Edwards who along with her husband made her storybook marriage to John Edwards a part of his campaign propaganda? Who knew about John’s infidelity and still stood by his side as part of his 2008 campaign for President? Who helped John lie on national television about his relationship with the bimbo he knocked up? Who has issued regular health bulletins to an American public that just wishes she and John would get back under the rock they crawled out from under? Seems to me that there is no claim for invasion of privacy to be made — and as a public figure there can be no claim that the information was wrongfully disclosed causing that alienation of affection.
Face it — Elizabeth is as dirty as John in this one.
From the WaPo. Enjoy:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html