| MattK D1 posts a pretty bleak diary about Elmira and western NY in General. Go check it out and take the poll. I loved this part:
but if Bruno and Silver think this system works, and if some in Albany feel they deserve a pay raise for how shiny they have polished the faucets in the bathrooms on the Titanic, maybe they need to come out here a bit more.
NYBri and I are part of the problem. What? You didn't know?
Spitzer sums up the Pataki era: "12 long, vapid years"
Charlie Rangel pulls no punches when asked about what Democrats should do about Iraq:
"I never understand that question," answered Charlie Rangel, the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "You have a President that's in deep shit. He got us into the war, and all the reasons he gave have been proven invalid, and the whole electorate was so pissed off that they got rid of anyone they could have, and then they ask, `What is the Democrats' solution?'"
The NY Post says the Albany DA has got enough dirt to indict Alan Hevesi on criminal charges.
EnWhySeaWonk at Room 8 with some rather disturbing imagery:
Chatting with a political friend on mine today on the phone we, naturally, got on the topic of the latest political indictment. My friend's comment was that he'd never met Senator González, but that "he looked like Jabba the Hutt." I looked him up and well, you be the judge.
Yellow Rat Bastard lives up to its name.
the Drum Major Institute releases its Year in Review.
This was the year of Systems Failure. Most Americans were tired of the status quo-on the war, on the economy, on the lapsed ethics of those entrusted to represent our interests. The result: on Election Day, they rebooted, ready to try again.
The report also includes a section titled "The Year in the Netroots" which strangely omits any mention of THE netroots news of the year
What's up with that?
What's happening in your corner of the Empire State? |
