“Change we can believe in”–in New York??!! I’ve said this before. This is merely a legal version of what that idiot Blago in IL tried to do.

Caroline’s $$$$ pay for her Senate campaign and Paterson’s gubernatorial campaign. (And for Caroline’s 2012 campaign, too.) Boss Tweed would have been proud.

Mike Bloomberg gets the City Council to repeal term limits so he can run for mayor again in 2009, and no doubt will enthusiastically back (with $$) City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s mayoral campaign in 2013. Boss Tweed would have chortled.

All the GOP can do is see if Rudy wants to run for one of the statewide jobs, and he’s probably passed his sell-by date by now anyway.

Ah well. Caroline has a great haircut. No doubt the journos are already burning up their Blackberries trying to find out where she gets it done, and by who, and how much it costs.

PS—when Caroline leaves the Senate to become Secretary of State in the Chuck Schumer administration, Mary-Kate Olsen should be old enough to take the Senate seat (or would you prefer Ashley?).

Among her qualifications is an ability to raise money and broker deals on the weight of her name. That such power is endowed by birthright doesn’t diminish its political value.

What?? Fundraising and backroom deals are prime qualifications for a Senate seat?? I’m shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!

So much for “Change We Can Believe In”.

Completing her metamorphosis from solid conservative to pandering beltway liberal,

I’ve started using the phrase “cocktail conservative” to describe all those elite conservatives (Noonan, Parker, Brooks, i.a.) who were more concerned that they keep being invited to all the right parties than with good governance. Iowahawk wrote a screamingly funny parody of the Noonan and Brooks of the world. Someone should send Parker a copy.