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“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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  3. 3.

    different church-lady

    I’ve heard he has possession the Michelle Obama “whitey” tape.

    The FBI is going to demand it, and they’re going to do a mash up with the Edwards sex tape.

  5. 5.

    beltane

    Paterson’s bombshell is hanging out in a bar with Sarah Palin’s bombshell, the one Sully promised us but never delivered. Nothing worse than juicy gossip denied.

  10. 10.

    licensed to kill time

    Well, I tried to edit that comment to say the New York tabloids are going wild but it says I do not have “permission” to edit,wtf.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Darkness

    Okay, I remember when this guy stood up for his first presser after taking office and said: so, my wife and I have a VERY open relationship, oh, and I’m a fan of cocaine. So let’s move on.

    I figured after that opening, it was going to require satanic ritual or something to touch him.

  15. 15.

    Andy

    @beltane:

    Rumor has it that it involves a pretty transparent and egregious awarding of a multi-million dollar state contract in return for waiving his gambling debt. In other words, big-time official misconduct, rather than personal.

  16. 16.

    Steve

    The NY papers have been going nuts about this for days. I realize a lot of reporting is nothing more than passing around rumors, but I can’t remember the media ever being this brazen about the fact that they’re doing nothing more than reporting on rumors.

    No one I work with has the slightest clue if there is any substance behind all this or not. The typical reaction is something like: well, Paterson is a pretty weird guy, so who knows.

  17. 17.

    de stijl

    …but I can’t remember the media ever being this brazen about the fact that they’re doing nothing more than reporting on rumors.

    9/11? Ft. Hood?

  18. 18.

    licensed to kill time

    @beltane:

    While the political wrangling over the ethics bill was going on, Paterson’s office continued to deny rumors that he could be forced to resign as a result of rumored scandals. A New York Post report on Jan. 30 stated Paterson was caught by state police in the mansion with a woman other than his wife. Paterson lashed out at that report, saying it was fabricated and the room in which he was reportedly caught doesn’t even exist. He denied all sexual relationships and drug use that are among the accusations.
    __
    “Rumors of resignation and scandal are just that — rumors. The governor has not engaged in any inappropriate or illegal behavior and suggestions to the contrary are entirely false and deeply irresponsible,” said Paterson spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein.

    linky FWIW

    Hey, JC asked!

  22. 22.

    Steve

    @licensed to kill time: Not remotely comparable. It’s entirely different when you have a breaking situation and the media is giving you the best information it has, with the understanding that it hasn’t been confirmed as yet. Here, the media has no firsthand sources at all, they’re just telling us what “other people” are speculating. You don’t have one person, named or unnamed, saying, “Here’s what the governor actually did wrong.”

  23. 23.

    MattF

    I get the feeling that the political class in NY just doesn’t like Patterson very much, don’t know if the voters also feel this way. Besides that, it’s kinda peculiar– going crazy with what everyone agrees are rumors. And if you read the NYT, none of this is happening, which is pretty funny.

  24. 24.

    DougJ

    The rumors are the ones I talked about yesterday.

    Honestly, it pisses me off that all these places are saying “there’s something big” without mentioning what that big thing supposedly is. Just come out and say it’s rumors about the Aqueduct gaming contract and swinging.

  26. 26.

    DougJ

    @MattF:

    A lot of is that the NYS Assembly — the heart of the state Democratic party — is pushing these rumors hard and (I think) really believes some version of the Aqueduct gaming rumors.

  27. 27.

    beltane

    @licensed to kill time: OK, following NY politics is one of my guilty pleasures. There is an epic nastiness of Borgia proportions to it that makes Chicago look like amateur hour. Paterson has a lot of enemies; which ones do you think are behind this? He’s likely not innocent, but this still has vendetta written all over it.

  28. 28.

    aimai

    I know–he’s not really blind. Actually, he has X ray vision and has been looking through women’s clothes. Now, there’s a bombshell.

    aimai

  30. 30.

    Osprey

    Meh, the tabloid junkies will love it, it’ll get plenty of media attention because it’s NY and teh secks!, but all-in-all nothing will come out of this. It’s not Spitzer-level material with madames a knee-high black socks. A few articles said ‘state worker’ so some nobody secretary with low morals was putting in some ‘overtime’.

    The Aqueduct thing, reportedly, was a contract given out to somebody for endorsements/donations etc., but there will never be any solid proof/smoking gun, so it’ll just be an annoying meme floating around for a while.

  31. 31.

    licensed to kill time

    @Steve: Well, I agree that’s it’s all rumors and speculation. I was just looking for something about it and that’s what I found.

    I got no dog in this hunt.

    beltane I know zip about NY politics, so I’ll clam up.

  32. 32.

    J. Michael Neal

    If he has to resign, can we go back to the guy who bangs expensive hookers, or do we have to go farther down the depth chart?

    I mean, is there any order of succession that runs the risk of Al Sharpton or Harold Ford becoming governor?

  34. 34.

    Osprey

    @J. Michael Neal: I think many would love to have Spitzer back-but his problem, which is true for anybody, is that you can’t fuck with the rich and powerful and have any sort of skeletons in your closet.

    Right now the Lt. Gov is Richard Ravitch (I know nothing about him).

    After that I believe it’s the AG (Cuomo), but I’m not sure, Doug would probably know.

    BTW, Fuck Harold Ford. I hope a nest of African Termites infest his ballsack.

  36. 36.

    Woodbuster

    It is hiding with the WMD from Iraq and Bin Laden in some godawful cave in Whatthefuckistan.

  37. 37.

    res ipsa loquitur

    The “bombshell” is allegedly coming tomorrow.

    That said, the whisper campaign about the alleged bombshell is working perfectly. This whole thing is designed to get Paterson to drop out of the gubenatorial primary before Cuomo has to spend a dime running against him.

    It’s actually very ugly, and anyone who thinks this isn’t the Dem Powers that Be and the NY Media gunning for Paterson’s drop-out is wrong. The only thing that’s surprising is that the “Harlem Clubhouse” is utterly silent on the matter.

    BTW, if Paterson resigned and Ravitch took over and, God forbid, anything happened to Ravitch it would be Governor Espada.

  38. 38.

    mcc

    I’m certain I saw this morning a report from a “real” news source that the NYT article was set to run tomorrow, and that Paterson would meet with the NYT’s editorial board about it today.

    I tried to look around on Google News to find the article I’d seen, but after a few minutes realized I was trying to look for a cite on a claim that a newspaper had published a story that another newspaper was going to publish a story about a subject as of yet unknown, and realized it probably wasn’t worth it

    Did find this. Bad timing. :(

  40. 40.

    Bruuuuce

    Paterson? Meh. We have a better option lined up behind him, in November.

    Far more important is that the state Senate does the right thing and expels Hiram Monserrate.

  41. 41.

    dr. bloor

    @res ipsa loquitur:

    The “bombshell” is allegedly coming tomorrow.
    …
    That said, the whisper campaign about the alleged bombshell is working perfectly. This whole thing is designed to get Paterson to drop out of the gubenatorial primary before Cuomo has to spend a dime running against him.

    Patterson pretty much gave the metropolitan NYC area away today with his bullshit proposal to reweight the mass transit payroll tax so that the suburbs get hit for a much smaller bite than do city dwellers. News about who he is/might be screwing these days won’t matter one way or the other.

  44. 44.

    Morbo

    Speaking of New York politics, the new rules appear to be as follows:
    -visit a prostitute: can’t be governor
    -recommend a prostitue: can be governor

    Have I mentioned that I really, really hate Roger Stone?

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Holy crap, what happened here? Everything from 44 on has a strikeout through it. INCLUDING on my screen the “leave a reply,” “Name (required),” “Mail (will not be published) (required),” “Website,” and all the XHTML codes. Wow.

  49. 49.

    Morbo

    @SiubhanDuinne: Somehow my link became an unclosed strikethrough. In fact, looking at the source code I think it’s because WordPress interpreted my second hyphen as a strikethrough tag and never bothered to close it.
    -FYWP-

  50. 50.

    You Don't Say

    @beltane: Sullivan cracks me up. He’s calling out Gibbs on his Palin prank today. Sullivan of all people to point fingers at anyone about picking on Palin?! Sheesh.

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