The Morning Read: September 12, 2006
"It is fine to trade stocks, and play baseball, and broadcast soap operas and even write a newspaper column. But absolutely forbidden is the normal functioning of our democracy. And they say the terrorists haven't won."
Haberman also notes that next year's primary is on Sept. 11, 2007.
Errol Louis has some 9/11 figures.
"On Sept. 11, 2001, immigration officials were using typewriters, the Federal Aviation Administration had only 12 names on its no-fly anti-terrorist list and the U.S. had just 33 armed air marshals, not one of whom was assigned to protect domestic flights."
After a singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show they are not partisan, Republicans and Democrats began "squabbling over the wording of a Sept. 11 resolution..."
Ben Smith thinks Hillary Clinton's "increasingly partisan, confrontational stance on national issues" is back in action, thanks to a new piece of campaign literature.Eliot Spitzer hopes a big win in the polls will help create "a significant foundation for reform."
And Joseph Goldstein reports on a federal judge's decision to overturn a case of affirmative action because "white male employees would be the first to lose their jobs."
-- Azi Paybarah
What Cylde leaves out is the fact that cancelling or delaying the 2001 election, letting Rudy remain as Mayor, or overturning term limits which all would have been wrong were all acceptable to and agreed to by one Mark Green. If the current AG candidate would have had his way there would not have been an election at all. It was the resistence of other candidates who forced Rudy to abandon this plan.
Green did not agree to delaying or cancelling to 2001 elections. He did agree to allowing Rudy to stay on for 3 more months. That was a mistake but what 10:28 writes is a lie. Are you Fred Dicker?
So have an election in November but have the new Mayor not take over until April? Makes no sense. There is no way anyone would have made sense of this...if this is what Green did then it is even more politically calculating and undefensivable.