Long Island

I was born in NYC and my parents moved to Nassau County when I was a kid so they could raise me and my sisters in the suburbs. That's a typical story for folks who live in Nassau County today. My folks moved to Valley Stream first and then out to Roosevelt, both of which are in NY-04, the Nassau County district represented by conservative New Dem Kathleen Rice. And Rice, a former Nassau County District Attorney, has a similar story.

“No way any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday… a week after Jim Foley was beheaded"- Peter KingRoland and I have been traveling all over the world for decades. He'd eat grasshoppers, snakes, monkeys and, in Beijing, dog. So when I wondered if I knew anyone who watched the video of Jim Foley's beheading, I asked Roland. "Are you kidding," he declared in disgust. "I'd never watch the savage garbage." OK, so I don't know any friends or family who did.

Peter King's son Sean works for one of the crookedest lobbying firms in AmericaMost candidates for Congress-- and that includes incumbents-- do not run primarily on a foreign policy platform. First of all, voters do not perceive themselves affected by foreign policy on a day to day basis, and, secondly, the president, in his roles as Chief of State and Commander in Chief, has far more power on foreign policy than any individual member of Congress.

When Obama was using populism as a tool to beat corporate Democrat Hilary Clinton, he found NAFTA a useful weapon to use against her and to rally the Democratic base to his side. He claimed he would renegotiate NAFTA if he were elected. "Our trade agreements," he thundered, "should not just be good for Wall Street it should also be good for Main Street.

Long Island's terrorist-supporter and racist Peter King has long been fair game here at DWT. The man practically begs for it; he's never meeting a war that he didn’t like.

Last night I came across a Newsmax article entitled Peter King: Harry Reid's Denial of 'Broken' Border Hampers Reform. We're not regular Newsmax readers around here, but... well, we're here to do it, so you don't have to.As you might expect, it was your typical, hypocritical Peter King diatribe.

Long Island's 2 crooked congressmenWhen Peter King's congressional district was last redrawn in 2010, it went from a north-south district-- from the Atlantic to the Long Island sound, right across Nassau County-- to an east-west district-- from Lake Ronkonkomo and Sayville, across Islip, Deer Park and Babylon to Levittown, mostly in Suffolk County.

With Climate Change, energy policy and environmental protection shaping up as one of the most important cache of issues facing America's political elites, I've been trying to figure out why DCCC chairman Steve Israel would recruit so many awful candidates with views on the environment identical to Republicans.

I'm not saying Long Island Congressman Steve Israel is involved in the Mafia, the way Staten Island Congressman Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm is. Israel, not exactly a brain surgeon, is far more subtle than Grimm will ever be-- which doesn't take much. Remember, in his very first meeting with Speaker John Boehner after being elected, Grimm, a violent criminal, insisted Members be allowed to pack heat on the House floor.

You probably missed it, but a few days ago the Washington Post ran some hopeful polling numbers that show the corrupt dirt bag Steve Israel could be beaten. Although they neglected to update the new PVI-- even instead of D+2-- this is what they came up with: