Some days it doesn’t pay to get up. It must be one of those days for Rudy Guliani, or, as he likes to think of himself, “the hero of 9/11 because I was Mayor then”.
Rudolph Giuliani’s membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel’s top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said.
Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last May after just two months, walking away from a chance to make up for his lack of foreign policy credentials on the top issue in the 2008 race, the Iraq war.
Josh Marshall is all over the story at Talking Points Memo, there’s a number of posts, so I suggest if you’re interested you go to the home page and just start scrolling. Josh thinks it’s a campaign killer. Every time Rudy talks terror his Republican opponents will shove this down his throat. Rudy’s trying to say that he quit when he decided to run for President, but the facts say differently.
Then, on a minor chord, so to speak, the news comes out that Rudy’s South Carolina has a coke problem-not just using-selling.
Being an old man, I can remember the days that you could look at the Republican presidential candidates and pick one or maybe even two that you could stomach as president of the United States. Not support, mind you, just stomach. Those days are gone. If Rudy goes down it just means someone just as bad or worse will go up, but that doesn’t diminish the schadenfreude one feels when an arrogant anal orifice like Rudy gets his just desserts. Here’s hoping Josh is right.
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