The GOP is bringing out its big guns in NY-20 (via): Pat Boone, a 50’s era teen heartthrob and squeaky-clean, conservative, “silent-majority” icon, is sending out robocalls on behalf of GOP congressional candidate Jim Tedisco. I realize that it’s possible I’m the only one here who finds this kind of thing amusing.
Archives for March 2009
Tournament Open Thread
I’ll be napping. You kids behave.
Matt Taibbi, American Hero
Matt Taibbi responds to Jake DeSantis, the AIG exec who wrote the whiny GBCW letter last week in the NY Times: DeSantis has a few major points. They include: 1) I had nothing to do with my boss Joe Cassano’s toxic credit default swaps portfolio, and only a handful of people in our unit did; …
The discreet charm of Newt Gingrich
You may have heard that Newt Gingrich is becoming a Catholic this weekend. I’ll let Chris Buckley do the honors on the absurdity of all this: He and Mother Church—from whose tender embrace I myself have regrettably lapsed—will both be made out to be appalling hypocrites. Who among us should throw stones? But Mr. Gingrich’s …
The Palin PUMA PAC
This is awesome on so many levels: A well-heeled personal injury lawyer, Coale has been a major Democratic donor. It was his suggestion that Palin create a PAC to pay for travel and avoid ethics complaints in Alaska. Coale told POLITICO he first met Palin during his wife’s taping of a September interview with the …
Well, That Was Worth It
Once more, with feeling: When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from the White House to get those …
CBS Sunday Morning
Have at it.