@lettermangirl Ummm....sorry?
Bio: Steve Kornacki is the news editor for Salon. He’s previously written about politics for The New York Observer and Roll Call, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and on The Daily Beast.
Officially, Barack Obama is in town to attend the U.N. General Assembly meeting, and to raise a couple million bucks while he’s at it. Of course, his trip also comes just days after some of the city’s voters used a special election to send a Republican to Congress, a result that the national G.O.P. is still gloating over. More
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on September 20th, 2011 1:54pmCharlie Rangel let himself get used by Fox News late last week, and he seemed to realize it about halfway through his appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor,” when he snapped at guest-host Laura Ingraham: “Bill O'Reilly told me he had a secret weapon. I didn't know it was just a pretty girl that he would bring in.” More
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on August 22nd, 2011 9:18amFor once, Chris Christie has produced a viral video hit that doesn’t owe its popularity to conservatives.
If you’ve paid any attention to New Jersey politics in the past week, you’ve probably seen the clip of the Republican governor issuing a rousing defense of a Muslim-American lawyer he appointed to a judgeship, a matter that some commentators on the far right had been complaining about last month. (The YouTube video uploaded from the official “GovChristie” account had been viewed more than 160,000 times as of this writing.) More
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on August 8th, 2011 7:06amIt's not clear whether the remarks that Michael Bloomberg delivered Monday night about the debt-ceiling showdown were dishonest or merely ignorant. Either way, they were definitely not helpful.
With a potentially catastrophic default now less than a week away, the mayor decided to play his favorite role: Third Way scold, alarmed by the shocking—shocking!—unwillingness of both national parties to put aside their differences and forge a compromise. More
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on July 26th, 2011 7:35am"I think John had exactly the right strategy," Giuliani said.
There's a problem, though: This wasn't really McCain's strategy in '08. Yes, it's true that McCain's campaign ended up downplaying expectations for their candidate in Iowa, that McCain himself skipped the August 2007 Ames straw poll, and that he ultimately expended far more time and energy in New Hampshire. But this doesn't mean he skipped Iowa. In fact, McCain's Iowa showing ended up being critical to his national success. More
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on July 18th, 2011 8:09amGeorge Pataki badly wants to be treated as a serious White House prospect. He's essentially been running his own "Draft Pataki" effort, encouraging the stories that regularly pop up about his potentially imminent entry into the 2012 presidential race.
But the news consistently fails to excite anyone without the Pataki surname. For two years he's been at this, and still no one is even nibbling. More
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on July 12th, 2011 1:08pmOnly in New Jersey could it even possibly be a sign of a healthy, functioning political partnership when the president of the State Senate calls the governor "a rotten prick."
That's how Stephen Sweeney, a South Jersey Democrat who has led Trenton's upper chamber since 2009, characterized Chris Christie after the Republican governor used his line item veto powers late last week to cancel out funding for an array of health and social service programs that Sweeney and his fellow Democrats had inserted into the budget. More
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on July 5th, 2011 10:11amLet's just stipulate that the past six months could not possibly have gone any better for Andrew Cuomo. Actually, that's true for the entire last five years. More
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on June 27th, 2011 11:59amAnthony Weiner really could have used two specific types of friends last week: the kind who could have vouched for him publicly after the lewd picture that may or may not be his surfaced, and the kind who could provide him with smart, practical guidance for dealing with the resulting media circus. More
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on June 6th, 2011 9:08amIf he’s wise, Rudy Giuliani will have the results of the most recent CNN Republican presidential poll framed and hung in his office. It’s as close as he’ll ever come to actually being his party’s White House nominee next year.
He's been trying all year to convince the political media to treat him like a potential 2012 candidate; Now he’s got some real ammunition. Maybe there’s an opening! Or maybe there isn't. More
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on May 31st, 2011 9:09am
richardmskinner: @SteveKornacki after MA GOP mocked Warren as carpetbagger!
pareene: @SteveKornacki why not Bloombergpareene: @SteveKornacki from my sources I'm hearing that it may be TEBOW TIME
jwbens: @SteveKornacki Know who probably doesn't?
peterfeld: @SteveKornacki yes but even DC ppl found 96 so boring it moved immed to the remainder table-WP (Kornheiser?) mocked the lack of interestpeterfeld: @SteveKornacki I think it was clear to all at the height of that campaign the chances Clinton would lose to Dole were zero.peterfeld: @SteveKornacki Bob Woodward's book on the election was remaindered well before Election Day.
kurtsoller: “@SteveKornacki: In which my employer hazes me http://t.co/Bo4R1VpeKA” Hazing or help? All in good fun.
