Keeps Getting Worse

Caroline Kennedy's appointment is still up in the air, but we finally get a decision tomorrow at noon. However, that decision may very well not be Kennedy. Yesterday and this morning it was "personal reasons" involving her stricken uncle Ted Kennedy, but the NY Times has finally gotten to the truth: vetting of Kennedy reveals a Tim Geithner special: a housekeeper with work status issues and taxes unpaid.

During the early afternoon Wednesday, the aide said, Ms. Kennedy became aware of what the aide referred to as a “personal situation” that could prevent her from fulfilling her duties as senator. The personal situation was not related to the seizure that her uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, suffered during an inauguration luncheon on Tuesday, the aide said, declining to be more specific.

Another aide to Ms. Kennedy, while not denying there were issues that emerged during her vetting, said that there was nothing that surfaced that would disqualify her from the appointment, and that the Kennedy camp and the governor’s operation had been discussing how to publicly disclose the issues.

Virtually no one in state politics on Thursday was willing to make a bet on the appointment the unpredictable governor might make in the end. And the governor and his aides remained shocked at the recent turn of events and stung by criticism of their handling of the process. They have maintained almost complete silence since Wednesday afternoon.

Hasn't New York politics already become a complete joke since Eliot Spitzer, and now this.

God help me, appoint a Republican just so we have something to break up the constant stream of Democratic stupidity flowing from the Empire State.