What the Heck was I Thinking!?

Jeez uz Ke rist! Is there no end to this one-ups-manship?

I know I blogged before about the back and forth competition between New York and New Jersey, but reality is worse than fiction here!

Paterson Admits Past Cocaine Use | The New York Observer

First it was Governor McGreavey of New Jersey. Then New York Governor Spitzer one-uped him with high priced hookers. Not to be out done, former governor raised the ante with an additional confession that his transgressions included his young driver AND his wife. New York’s new governor couldn’t let their “bastard cousins” (to quote the PJM article I’m excerpting below) in New Jersey. He admitted to several indiscretions, and his wife did too!

New Jersey has long been the bastard cousin of its neighbor to the north, and the details of the affair involving former Governor Jim McGreevey, his ex-wife Dina Matos and campaign aide Theodore Pederson are the bridge-and-tunnel equivalent of political scandal.

Now, we are reminded by this post from James Kirchick that McGreavey’s transgressions included hiring one of his playmates to a government job.

But Jim McGreevey was forced to resign for no other reason than that he was a corrupt politician.

Of course, New York’s new governor, David Paterson, has also provided a “job reference” of sorts for one of his more recent conquests.

The 53-year-old Paterson admitted he was involved with numerous women “several years ago” - including one who later worked in Spitzer’s office and whom Paterson has “inherited” as part of his staff.

Sources later identified her as Lila Kirton, 49, whom Spitzer brought over from his attorney general’s staff when he became governor last year. She is now community affairs director for the Office of Inter-Governmental Affairs.
Paterson insisted that he never supervised the woman and never used state funds for any of his trysts, some of which took place at the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.

and

Diane Dixon, a Brooklyn native who won medals in the 4x400-meter relay at the 1984 games in Los Angeles and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, claimed that Paterson had assisted in helping her secure a Department of Education job in Crown Heights.

Geez, enough already. I’m beginning to think that there ought to be a law requiring politicians to wear chastity belts and keep away from viagra or cialis.

I bet that’ll never pass.

Pajamas Media: The McGreevey Scandal Wasn’t (Just) About Sex

Don Surber’s “Just Ask Me” feature is a gold mine of truth and humor. Part of the answer to question 3 includes this core fact of modern life:

Sociology traces its roots to phrenology and alchemy.

Don Surber » Blog Archive » Just ask me

From his most recent post:

Yea, that’s a Republican: Trolling for blue light specials in the red light district.

Don Surber » Blog Archive » Naughty Nottingham

Michelle Malkin posts on the dust up over Jeremiah Wright’s theology and its influence on Barak Obama.

I saw this phrase in her post and recalled how I felt when I heard Wright’s diatribes the first time - it’s the Black Panther polemic all over again.

Then I thought about the other friend Obama has - William Ayres, Weather Underground leader.

I see a pattern here. Obama wants to appeal to the extreme left of the liberal spectrum of both black and white America. It’s where identity politics really took root in the Democrat party.

He appeals to all the aging Boomer hippies who yearn nostalgically for that time of freedom and license. He also appeals to all the victim mongers who want to continue to ride identity politics into power.

Barak Obama’s former senior foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power, hasn’t done him or his campaign any favors while on her book tour in England.

She appeared on a British talk show, “Hard Talk,” and pulled a NAFTA-gate moonwalk on Barak’s Iraq withdrawal plan:

The host, Stephen Sackur, challenged her:”So what the American public thinks is a commitment to get combat forces out in 16 months isn’t a commitment isn’t it?”

“You cant make a commitment in March 2008 about what circumstances will be like in January of 2009,” she said. “He will, of course, not rely on some plan that hes crafted as a presidential candidate or a U.S. Senator. He will rely upon a plan an operational plan that he pulls together in consultation with people who are on the ground to whom he doesnt have daily access now, as a result of not being the president. So to think it would be the height of ideology to sort of say, ‘Well, I said it, therefore Im going to impose it on whatever reality greets me.

You can take that for a “yes.” I guess things look different from the President’s office than from the campaign trail.

Or was this another trick for the rubes?

Power on Obama’s Iraq plan: “best case scenario” - Ben Smith’s Blog - Politico.com

John Coleman doesn’t like the carbon offset business, and says as much.

Why should we care? Well, he’s a noted meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel, so he has the cred. He’s not at all happy with the whole carbon offset scam (as he calls it):

We don’t like to see the courts used to shape public policy. That’s what legislatures are for. But maybe a lawsuit is needed to expose those whose idea of green is the money they can make selling carbon offsets that do nothing to save the Earth but a great deal toward fattening their bank accounts. Such an action would discredit and disprove those who assume facts about climate not in evidence.

Indulgences anyone?

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — Smoking Out The Warm-Mongers

From Johan Goldberg’s blog at NRO:

A murderer who believed that the U.S. is the great enemy of mankind shouldnt be anyones hero, never mind a logo for a line of baby clothes.

He’s talking about Che, of course. It’s in the context of the price people pay for their radical past - very little, it appears.

Jonah Goldberg on Radicals on the Left on National Review Online

Or would that be the other way around?

This is from the “Arab American Action Network” website.

Headquartered in the heart of Chicago’s large Palestinian community, AAAN views the United States as a nation wherein Arab citizens are routinely maltreated. To remedy this perceived societal injustice, the organization aims to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights of the Arab American and Arab immigrant community. Among these policies are detentions, deportations and other attacks on immigrants that result from Homeland Security [measures].

That last sentence sounds eerily like statements made by Barak (middle name deleted) Obama in one of his recent speeches.

So, how is the AAAN connected to Barry? He was on the board of directors of the Woods Fund, along with unrepentant terrorist William Ayres. The fund supported this group.

(h/t Doug Ross)

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6462

The Discerning Texan comes up with a very nice turn of phrase:

Every day, the scientific news is more and more starkly the polar opposite of every single hysterical lie that has come out of Al Gore’s egomaniacal mouth.

No! It’s the “polar opposite” part of global warming, not the other ones about “hysterical lies” or “egomaniacal mouth.”