Of course he spent a lot of time at Ground Zero. Since his "command center" was part of the rubble, where else was he gonna go? And if photo-op's count as "work" then I guess ol' Rudy was working -- he just kept forgetting to bring his pick and shovel. Of course, he was a lot more interested in getting Wall Street back up and running than he was in the quality of the air that all those people were breathing, but when you're America's mayor I guess you've just got to sacrifice the health of a few hundred people for the good of all those investors who wanted to hear Dow Jones' opening bell.

Open mouth, change feet, Mr. Giuliani. You're not just insulting all of the people who are now paying the price for those hours and days spent breathing in poison, you're also insulting the intelligence of millions of Americans who know perfectly well that you've spent the last 6-1/2 years exploiting 9/11 and that you expect to exploit it all the way into the White House. Dream on, ass hat. The more you flap your mouth, the more people see you for the crass piece of garbage that you really are.

of my 3 Irish Setters is the 14-1/2 year old, Lucy. Two weeks ago the landscaper came to put mulch down in my backyard and left the gate wide open. The two younger ones were so happy to run around in the new mulch they didn't even notice the gate was open. Lucy, on the other hand, decided to run away from home. Took me over an hour to find her. Last week she got the guest room closet door open just enough to drag out a shopping bag full of bags of Halloween candy. I came home from work to find three empty bags of Nestles Crunch and an empty bag of Butterfingers but only about 10 candy wrappers scattered around the house. Her nephew Kirby threw up candy wrappers for 4 nights in a row. How do I know it was Lucy that got the closet door open? Because she kept going back to that closet and pawing at the doors until I finally opened the doors and showed her that the rest of the candy had been moved. Anybody who thinks Irish Setters are dumb has never had one. (Okay, Kirby eating the candy, wrappers and all, was none too bright but whenever Lucy and his half-sister Fancy get into an argument he runs and hides ... that's pretty damn smart.)

Dogs may never rule the world, but they sure do rule our lives, don't they? They don't need a plan ... they've already won.

It's not often that I post comments any more but the War Room is still my first choice for political news and the main reason I've kept renewing my premium subscription. (I think it would be fair to say in the last 2-3 years I've spent a helluva lot more time in the War Room than I have in the bath room.) "Bureau chief" sounds like a step up so sincere congratulations to you. Your insight will be missed more than you can imagine.

The U.S. Attorney who initially headed up the Renzi investigation was Paul Charlton. By an odd coincidence, he was one of the eight U.S. Attorneys purged by the White House in December 2006. Go figure!

Kinda hard to believe 200,000 Democrats suddenly became inspired to contribute for the first time to the Clinton campaign in February. How much of Hillary's sudden infusion of cash, I wonder, is coming not from Democrats but from Republicans who desperately want her to get the nomination and not Obama. Hell, some of them would actually prefer to see her win in November rather than McCain.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who's noticed that the War Room is a shadow of its former self since Tim Grieve left. In all the years Tim ran the War Room I never saw a picture of him. Now Koppelman never misses an opportunity to put his face in our face. (A video of a cost benefit analysis???) Where the War Room used to be analysis of the news now it's just reporting the news (with all the depth of water on a windshield). What I want to see in the upper right-hand corner is an announcement that Tim Grieve is back. Barring that, for God's sake find someone with a little maturity that actually analyzes the news ... absent that there's no way on God's green earth I'll be renewing my premium subscription. The War Room is what kept me coming back (and hitting the refresh button every half hour). Now it's nothing but news I can get anywhere.