Short Cuts

Can You Hear Me Now? Senator John Kerry stood in front of a big boat yesterday and criticized W for landing on another. The point, we think, was to announce for the second time that he is running for President. This wasn't necessary. Everybody knew. Perhaps he was reminding himself? Tony Blankely had it figured out a month ago when he wrote that by September his campaign would be tanking. And Linda Chavez takes apart Kerry's idea of war heroism. How many ways can one say 'tone deaf'?

You Know You're A Loser When They Laugh: The last hot kiss of political death is when your hometown paper holds a joke contest about you. Here are some entries sent to the L.A. Times' Cruz Bustamante Laugh Fest. None are particularly thigh-slappers but they get the message across and it's not a good one for the Cruzer. Let's see - we'll give one a try....Cruz Bustamante walks into a bar with a pig under his arm....Oh well, you can do the rest.

Who Could Tell? NYPost gossippeuse Cindy Adams tried to tell us this yesterday but we didn't pay attention. Charles Bronson, who died this weekend, was eight years older than his claimed 81 years. Only Gabors can get away with that kind of fudging. Good for him and who ever cared?

How Did Drudge Miss This? Just in case you have run out of things to worry about - worry about the first day of Spring, 2014. We consider this too iffy to post.

Is There "Yes, Yes" In Her Eyes: As Hillary stomps around New York this week, elbowing the Mayor out of parades, speaking to moon-eyed teacher union gatherings and lobbing spit balls at W that don't stick - the media is in a frenzy over whether she is going to run in 2004. There's a big meeting planned for next weekend in which the Clinton Court-in-Exile will ponder Hillary's future. Kerry's performance yesterday, mean, planless and false against the very real possibility that Dean is about to snatch control of the party and run like a Jack Russell with a stolen steak, should be giving her the yips. Being right is not a big deal to us but we're betting she will run.

-Your Always Interested LComStaff