Close friends who I dearly love regard Chuck Schumer as one of the sleaziest Democrats in the Senate. So I tend to regard everything he says and does with a certain amount of healthy skepticism. Take, for instance, his argument that Republican governors who are unconscionably indifferent to the plig...

Chuck Schumer is calling bullshit on these Republican Governors who are grandstanding on the stimulus bill. According to Talking Points Memo Schumer has written a letter to the White House saying the stimulus bill does not include any provision allowing Governors to pick and choose which parts of th...

Chuck Schumer has some info for you: As you know, Section 1607(a) of the economic recovery legislation provides that the Governor of each state must certify a request for stimulus funds before any money can flow. No language in this provision, however, permits the governor to selectively adopt some ...

Chuck Schumer wants the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to tell states they have no choice in the use of porkulus funds. Below the fold is the entire letter. It’s is amazing in its reach. In effect, states will have zero discretion in how they spend the money and which part...

REBEL YELL: TAXPAYERS REVOLT AGAINST GIMME - MANIA Michelle Malkin There’s something in the air. It’s the smell of roasted pork. President Obama heralded the signing of the trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill in Denver and promoted his massive mortgage entitlement expansion in Me...

ALBANY—Kirsten Gillibrand thinks New Yorkers are starting to get used to the idea that she’ll be a senator for a long time. “I think it’s happening already, I really do,� Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview on Feb. 14 as she ate a celery stick dipped in blue cheese at the end of a long day...

As the 2009 mayoral campaign draws closer, Anthony Weiner, the intense, rail-thin Brooklyn congressman, is playing it suspiciously cool. After having spent much of last year outside New York as a presidential-campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton, he has remained immersed in Washington issues, gett...

Usually I don’t go for the hard-edged treatment of politicians as my headline here does. I don’t often call individuals “liars” and the like, though I’ve been known to do so on occasion. Generally, I prefer to assume that those that oppose my views are truthfully advoca...

Download | Play    Download | Play A big topic on the liberal blogs has been that Republicans who took a hatchet to the stimulus bill didn't even vote for it. I explained yesterday how the people who crafted the crappy Senate compromise bill were, to a significant degree, Republicans....

WASHINGTON--Even at a black tie ball where President Barack Obama and his wife danced to celebrate his historic inauguration, New York's most frustrating political parlor game continued to take center stage. "I think I've got an idea," said Governor David Paterson. He was responding to que...