“George Pataki has slid into obscurity and nobody cares," said George Marlin, the former executive director of the Port Authority and Pataki critic, on Fred Dicker’s radio show this morning.

Pataki, at least, is keeping busy.

He’s getting his consulting company off the ground, he's doing some work with the United Nations, and he's teaming up with Gov. Tom Vilsack
working on global warming issues for the Council of Foreign of Relations. And he still has his political action committee, poised and ready for something or another.

Whether anyone cares, I guess, is another story.

Conservative activist and former Port Authority head George Marlin now has his own blog, Street Corner Conservative, which he is promptly using to give Eliot Spitzer the kind of treatment he once reserved for George Pataki.

Here, for example, is his take on how Spitzer fared in dealing with the legislative leaders on congestion pricing:

"Bruno and Silver really hustled Spitzer – but one would never know it from reading statements emanating from the governor’s office. That’s because Spitzerland is adopting another page from Patakiland’s political manual: press release government. The impact the fine print of these deals will have on taxpayers doesn’t matter to the governor’s handlers. What does matter is promoting the illusion in press releases that Spitzer is still the champion of self-anointed Do-Goods."

(Marlin's mission of late seems to be to make it impossible for New York Republicans to seek national office: his other recent effort was about George Pataki, entitled Squandered Opportunities.)  read more »