[UPDATE] Now unstickied. Thanks to everybody who contributed.
[UPDATE] Caleb’s also put up a post here about what he hopes to do in the next stage of all of this. Check it out.
(This post will be up on top for a while.)
This isn’t for me: this is for one of my colleagues over at RedState. He’s Caleb Howe/ “absentee,” and he’s the guy who caught Don Fowler laughing at Hurricane Gustav’s impact on New Orleans… Continue reading Help a guy out?
(Junko Yagami
Really, it wasn’t intentional. Just a couple of juicy stories today and there’s a race next week, that’s all.
The Poughkeepsie Journal – which endorsed Obama for President – has endorsed Jim Tedisco for next week’s special election:
The 20th Congressional District seat – which includes much of northern Dutchess County – has been without a representative for about two months now. In many ways, this could not have come at a worse time. With the economy teetering, Congress has been moving at a fever-pitch pace to make critically important and highly expensive decisions that would have far-reaching ramifications.
The district needs someone to jump right in and make a difference, and veteran state lawmaker James Tedisco has those abilities. District voters should give him the opportunity to serve.
Tedisco has considerably more experience than his opponent, Democrat Scott Murphy, who has never sought office before.
There is at least one misstatement in the endorsement, however: Tedisco is against the stimulus. Nonetheless, good news.
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Crossposted to RedState.
Good thing that he cleared that up:
AIG’s $100G donation to Democrats was unknown to Gov. Paterson, he says
Gov. Paterson stuck to his guns Saturday, insisting he knew nothing about a $100,000 donation from AIG to the state Democratic Party days before his office helped save the insurance giant.
State Republicans charged the Democrats with stonewalling an investigation into the Aug. 29 donation, uncovered last week by The Associated Press.
In the first week of September, Paterson launched negotiations to save the financially strapped company. GOP officials questioned whether there was a quid pro quo.
Otherwise suspicious individuals might ask whether September’s relief efforts were perhaps lubricated by such a transaction. Paterson’s intervention stopped the company’s financial free-fall back then, and it took place two weeks after AIG made a donation to the state Democratic party that was ten times higher than previous contributions. But Paterson, the Democrats, and AIG are all swearing that there was no quid pro quo. Or pay-for-play. Continue reading Gov. Paterson (D, NY): AIG Contribution not related to AIG rescue.
(Via Instapundit) Come on, you’d expect that the NYDN would mention the fact that these guys are all Democrats at least once.
Gov. Paterson: Corruption indictments may change the way state pension fund is run
ALBANY – The bombshell indictment of two top advisors to former state Controller Alan Hevesi is “disturbing” enough to consider changing how the office operates, Gov. Paterson said Friday.
Hank Morris, Hevesi’s top political consultant, and David Loglisci, a former deputy controller for pensions, were charged were charged in a 123-count indictment with steering firms to pension fund business in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks.
Paterson said the indictment is “so disturbing in its nature,” the state should consider whether to allow the controller to remain as the sole trustee of the $120 billion pension fund.
If only because we’re notorious for having no sense of humor on the subject these days.
I should confess that one reason that this video appeals (as opposed to the song itself) is because I laugh every time I see the gloves. Google “green gloves” nazis and you’ll see why.
Time to do this again, so I’ve switched out Storm from the Shadows
(H/T The Other McCain) Turns out that federal judge appointee David Hamilton – whose new ‘moderate’ tag is making Feddie over at Confirm Them wince – is also a former fundraiser for ACORN – a group that is, as the TribLIVE site put it, “now being scrutinized on myriad voter registration fraud allegations.”
Ah, vetting. When were they going to start doing that, anyway?
Crossposted to RedState.
Susan Estrich is very unhappy that apparently nothing stands between the Democrats and their desires right now:
Imagine how different things might be right now if there were a Republican Party. I mean a party like the one led by Ronald Reagan, George Bush or Newt Gingrich; a party with a program, a single set of talking points, and the technological and communications advantages to get their message across. That kind of Republican Party. The kind that doesn’t exist right now.
…which is particularly funny, given that she’s been actively trying to put the Democratic party in this position for the last decade or so. Not that this was exactly what she wanted: what she wanted was probably more like the 110th Congress, only with a Democratic President. That way those awful Republicans would still be in a position to block the Democrats’ worst enthusiasms, while still gnashing their teeth over all that legislation being sent over by the White House. Put another way, she clearly still wants anything besides the Democratic party to take the blame for the current mess; alas for her, if 2008 demonstrated nothing else it demonstrated that the Republican party is not in charge. And it’s been remarkably united in refusing to take on responsibility without also taking on an equal amount of power.
As for vacuums… nature abhors them, and what Estrich is “complaining*” about is a self-correcting feature. What’s confusing her on that point is probably that ‘populist’ movements on the Left are exclusively a top-down affair these days (the recent CWFP embarrassment is a pretty good example of same): artificially creating a popular response to a perceived outrage pretty much requires that somebody organize the community from the start to get the desired response. The concept that the true leaders of a movement would naturally come from the movement themselves is just too tainted with free market thinking for our academic and pundit classes… which causes them to discount societal trends that are not being shepherded from the start. Essentially, everybody’s looking in the wrong place.
No, not “everybody except me is looking in the wrong place.” I don’t have a clue who the new leaders of the Republican party for the 2010 elections are going to be, either. It’s just that I’m going to wait a bit until it actually becomes steam engine time
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*Scare quotes because if the economic situation resolved itself tomorrow she’d jump up and down for joy at our supposed destruction. She’s only concerned now because she’s afraid, not to mention as pessimistic about the ability of the Democratic Party to fix things as I am.
Crossposted to RedState.
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