Besides, Senate elections don't usually turn on local tax questions. They turn on things like ideas, vision, a sense of the future. Precisely the qualities that Finkelstein, who once changed this country's politics so profoundly, no longer has. When John Podhoretz writes in the New York Post that the Netanyahu debacle "should bring to an end" a career marked by "rhetorical poisonousness and cartoonish excess," it should be taken as the plume of white smoke from inside the conservative sanctum that it is.
Pataki was set to make his "big announcement" the day this magazine hits the stands. Senate? Favorite son? George W.? How about a divorce from Arthur? It won't happen, but if Pataki really wants a future in Washington and not Peekskill, it should.
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