By Michael J. Smith on Wednesday December 14, 2005 04:53 PM
I hate to poach on Wang's territory, but I came across
a juicy item in Newsday today. There's a Republican congressman,
Peter King, from the South Shore of Long Island. King is staunchly pro-war but
his district isn't. And there is a Democratic county legislator, David Bishop, who is strongly anti-war, has good name
recognition, and wants to run against King. Polls show him to be a strong candidate. Sounds good, right?
Not to the unspeakable Rahm Emmanuel, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee -- Mr. Moneybags, in other words, for the national party. Emmanuel has apparently passed down the word that Bishop would get little support from the DCCC.
This is starting to look like a pattern.
