Something is up with Maureen Dowd. She actually wrote something positive about someone. Granted she did it while thoroughly trashing Kirsten Gillibrand.
I guess Caroline Kennedy must be Maureen's friend.
Dowd once wrote that Al Gore was "so feminized" that he was "practically lactating." And, of course, Maureen dubbed Hillary as "the White Bitch." Kirsten Gillibrand is in excellent company.
And Maureen Dowd's Clinton Derangement Syndrome is working overtime at producing conspiracy theories: [pssst Maureen -- they call all ambitious women 'Tracy Flick' -- that means you too!!]
So now we have an N.R.A. handmaiden in Bobby Kennedy’s old seat? Kirsten Gillibrand, a k a Tracy Flick, accepting the honor with her Republican pal Al D’Amato beside her on stage? Gross.
Paterson could have acted a month ago, or even a week ago. . Then the Democrats would have had another Kennedy in the Senate representing New York — Bobby’s niece and a smart, policy-oriented, civic-minded woman to whom the president feels deeply indebted in an era when every state has its hand out.
Paterson’s five weeks of dithering let the jealous vindictiveness of the Clintons and friends — still fuming over Caroline’s endorsement of Obama and Teddy’s blocking Hillary from a leading health care role in the Senate — poison the air. With his usual sense of entitlement and aggrievement, Bill Clinton of Arkansas did not want Caroline Kennedy of New York to have the seat that Hillary Clinton of Illinois held.
The 42-year-old Gillibrand, who has been in the House for only two years, is known as opportunistic and sharp- elbowed. Tracy Flick is her nickname among colleagues in the New York delegation, many of whom were M.I.A. at her Albany announcement. Fellow Democrats were warning Harry Reid on Friday that he was going to have his hands full with the new senator because she’s “a pain.”
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