Spitzer Resigns

NEW YORK -FOX-  New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has resigned.

The news completes a rapid and stunning fall from power following unchallenged reports linking him to a high-priced prostitution ring.

“I am deeply sorry that I did not live up

Ya know, I’ve seen an awful lot of people labeling the Spitzer crime a ‘tragedy’. I found one such idiot last night, just a few hundred miles down the road from me here. .  and another, here. And , no,

• Rumor control: McCain doesn’t have cancer. The Times, of course is making lots of noise about not being given McCain’s medical records, yet. The funny part of the story is, they’re still waiting for the health records of Bill Clinton,

Bluto asks:

I wonder if Time magazine now regrets slobbering all over Spitzer to help him get elected?

Ya know, Bluto, that might have been a valid question if Time hadn’t spent 10 years licking the hindquarters of one Bill

• Well, over the weekend we got up to two feet of snow in places, mostly west of here. There’s a foot and a half in my front yard, and in my driveway.  We shovel it out, but since the yard

The NY Observer, yesterday:

The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton

Yes, America… it’s all about Bill… (Video)

• The Jawas say Toshiba‘s given up on HD-DVD, and Sony will win this one with their Blu-Ray.. I dunno, after they lost on Beta, I guess it makes sense. The difference being this time quality at the

Local weather:  Twenty-four degrees that feels like thirteen. 

As the culture coarsens:

LEESBURG, Va. – (Fox News)-A children’s book about two male penguins that hatch a chick together has been pulled from school library shelves in Loudoun County,

Blue Crab Blvd is running a link to Evan Thomas, this morning, who in Gauius’ words:

….describes the complicated relationship between the media and the Clintons. In fact, the relationship between the press and any president or presidential candidate. Thomas

Peter Baker in the WaPo this morning:

As he gets closer to the Republican nomination, Sen. John McCain has been trying to balance his unqualified support for the Iraq war by reminding audiences that he was also a tough critic

Me in email just now:

I don’t see it as those working against McCain as the ones selling out. Indeed, I see a vote for McCain as selling out both the party and the country. I fail utterly, to see

A thought occurred to me as I was driving home froma  family event last evening… Is Bill Clinton really to blame for Hillary’s troubles in getting through the nomination process? Or are the Clintonistas offering him up as a target

• I see where Romney and McCain are trading insults, both saying to one another, that they’re liberal. Of course, long term readers of this blog will understand something many other have not yet… they’re both correct.
• I hear there’s

The fact is that Bill Clinton is not and never has been a great vote-getter, certainly not for other candidates.

Mark R. Levin, National Review.