Thanks! I knew about the endorsement, but hadn’t heard that the Whitish House was involved so directly.
Incidentally, my wacko-lib officemate cited NY-23 as evidence that anyone who “has slightly different opinions about a couple of things” will get attacked and chased out by the eeeeeeeeevil (yet somehow still stupid/irrelevant/crazy) Palin & Co. Ann Coulter has it right as usual: Dems really have no substantive criticism outside of “you’re stupid!”