Marrissa Shorenstein, a spokesperson for Governor Paterson resigned yesterday.

ALBANY — The exodus of top aides from the Paterson administration continued on Wednesday when Marissa Shorenstein, the governor’s press secretary and acting chief spokeswoman, resigned and, like other departing senior advisers, implicitly raised questions about the administration’s conduct.

Ms. Shorenstein became the fifth top state official to resign in the wake of a scandal over the Paterson administration’s handling of a domestic violence episode. And echoing the words of her former boss when he quit two weeks ago, Ms. Shorenstein suggested that the administration had misled her about the facts of the case.

“Throughout my career, I have performed my duties professionally and with integrity, basing my actions on what I believed to be true at the time,” she said in a statement. “I therefore tender my resignation as press secretary to the governor.”

And the Democrat and  Chronicle editorial board?  They are advising Govenor Paterson not to focus on his legacy yet.

Pushing forward with dark clouds over his head makes challenging Albany dysfunction all the more difficult. But until final judgments are in on what Paterson did and/or didn’t do, New Yorkers can’t afford to have a lame-duck governor. He needs to keep that front of mind as thoughts of his legacy start to rush in.

Can’t afford a lame duck Governor, thoughts of his legacy?  These guys really are the laughing stock of New York State’s newspapers.

From the Associated Press:

Biden mistakenly blesses Irish leader’s mother

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration of St. Patrick’s Day — except the elderly lady is very much alive. 

“God rest her soul,” Biden said Wednesday night as he introduced Cowen and President Barack Obama.

Remember.  This is the Number 2 guy running our country poeple.

It is being reported that Idaho is the first state to sign a law aimed at stopping the Obama  health care plan and that similar legislation is pending in 37 other states.  Constitutional law experts say the movement is mostly symbolic because federal laws supersede those of the states.  However is it possible that if this monstrosity of a bill is approved that a Constitutional Amendment may result in rejecting it? What does it take to create a Constitutional Amendment?

Article V of the Constitution prescribes how an amendment can become a part of the Constitution. While there are two ways, only one has ever been used. All 27 Amendments have been ratified after two-thirds of the House and Senate approve of the proposal and send it to the states for a vote. Then, three-fourths of the states must affirm the proposed Amendment.

The other method of passing an amendment requires a Constitutional Convention to be called by two-thirds of the legislatures of the States. That Convention can propose as many amendments as it deems necessary. Those amendments must be approved by three-fourths of the states.

Two thirds of the states would be 34 states and three fourths would be 38. If there are 37 state legislatures with pending laws that would mean there are enough states to force a Constitutional Convention.  Is it possible our founding fathers were wise enough to foresee someone like Obama and the current U.S. Congress usurping power over the constitution and that they provided for a firewall of state legislatures still being able to save us?  Go Tea Party Members.

This video really makes you wonder if there’s something to disgraced Democrat former Congressman Eric Massa’s claim that President Obama’s pit bull attack dog Rahm Emanuel did in fact have it out for Massa.  I mean, how would you like to find out someone you were having a private conversation with was mic-ed up and secretly taping you and that the conversation would end up in a documentary film for the world to see?

Now don’t get me wrong.  In my opinion, Eric Massa is a freak of nature who by his own admission thinks it’s perfectly fine to act inappropriately with those who work underneath him.  I also found it hysterical when Massa said, “I am who I am” and “I’m not very refinable.”  Unfortunately Eric, we’ve come to learn who you really are and wish you had been refinable.

That said, after watching this video I am inclined to go back to my thinking that there really was a bigger fish getting fried with his ouster.  How ’bout that veteran, former Senator saying Emanuel should go F*** himself?  I wonder what happened to THAT guy?

Someone should go check up on him.

In a survey, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine found that a majority of physicians said health-care reform would cause the quality of American medical care to deteriorate and it could be the final straw that sends a sizable number of doctors out of medicine.

More than 29 percent (29.2) percent of the nearly 1,200 doctors who responded to the survey said they would quit the profession or retire early if health reform legislation becomes law. If a public option were included in the legislation, as several liberal Senators have indicated they would like, the number would jump to 45.7 percent.

Many physicians feel that they cannot continue to practice if patient loads increase while pay decreases. A significant find said 96 percent of the physicians surveyed in the report are in favor of health reform, but relatively few are in favor of the current legislation.

Found this video on Youtube. It is about Barbara Boxer (D) California, but I could not help thinking about the Old Gal. Our very own Louise Slaughter (D) New York, who heads the congressional rules committee.  The Old Gal had a ridculous idea for a rule.  Instead of  Congress voting on the Senate Health Care Bill,  let’s just vote on a rule that says we deem it passed.  That is sensless slaughter.

It appears the corrupt and scandal ridden Working Families Party is offering what I’m calling an incentive to members of Congress to get them to vote AGAINST Obama’s terrible Health Care Reform bill…

The Working Families Party won’t endorse representatives who vote AGAINST the bill.

As expected, the labor-backed Working Families Party voted over the weekend in favor of a resolution barring the endorsement of members of Congress who vote “no” on health care reform.

How great is that!  Vote against HCR and we’ll make your re-election campaign easier for you by NOT endorsing you.  With an incentive like that coming from WFP, I expect this bill to fail unanimously!

Here’s the WFP’s real threat – if you don’t yield to their demands, they’ll run someone against you.  They’ve done it before:

The WFP has run insurgent candidates against Democratic incumbents before, successfully winning five City Council races that fell into that category last fall.

At least six New York House votes are believed to be in play at the moment. But the members coming under the most pressure are two who voted “no” last time around: Rep. Mike McMahon (NY-13) and Rep. Scott Murphy (NY-20). Both are currently on the fence.

McMahon already got his visit from a union thug with the thinly veiled threat:

McMahon got a personal visit last week from SEIU 32BJ’s Mike Fishman, who made it clear that labor will not at all be happy if the freshman Democrat casts another “no” vote.

It’ll be interesting to see if these Democrat congressmen wimp out and cave to this threat or if they’ll listen to their constituents and vote against the bill.

It must be tough having to decide between doing what’s right and giving in to threats from the special interest groups you’ve sold out to.

Hopefully this will be the final post on the good congressman from Corning.

Shortly after Eric Massa was elected, I said this:

Say hello to Congressman elect Eric Massa.  My friends in the southern tier tell me this guy is off his rocker.  I’m not sure what type of Congressman he will be, but I’m sure he will have quite a bit of entertainment value.

I had no idea that it would lead to this:

Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the United States Senate about legal briefs he signed when the lawmakers considered nomination for his current job. This according to a letter released on Friday.

Two of the briefs involved appeals to the Supreme Court for Jose Padilla, who sought release from a military prison in South Carolina where he was being held after then-President George W. Bush designated him an “enemy combatant.”
Padilla was held in a military brig for three years before his case was moved to a criminal court in Miami, where he was convicted on charges of offering his services to militants.

The Justice Department sent the Senate Judiciary Committee, which vets presidential nominees, a list of briefs that were omitted on Friday. “We regret the omission,” Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich said in a letter to the panel.

Holder has been facing intense scrutiny as the Obama administration tries to decide whether to prosecute terrorism suspects like the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in military or criminal courts.

The attorney general had been spearheading that effort but concerns about holding those trials in criminal court forced the White House to intervene and officials are now weighing whether to prosecute Mohammed and four of his alleged co-conspirators in a military court.

Reuters

Attorney General Holder seems to be working on all sides of the legal issue.