[Gadfly-At-Large]

This is a must read. Everytime this woman talks, I wish that she'd run for office. She's clearly an effective advocate.

[Vigilanteman]

She's splendid and she gets it! She has more intelligence inside her lower intestine than the collective "Jersey girls" do in their heads.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Anyone connected to the so-called "Freedom Center" urgently needs to have their passports torn up and then be deported to Pakistan.

But that's just a toned down opinion meant for public consumption. My real opinion is that they be made into bacon and their remains tossed to wild dogs.

[martin_fierro]

(Ms. Burlingame insists that the blind include the editorial page of the New York Times, which twice attacked her by name--describing her, even, as "the Governor's Proxy"--yet did not consider it important to print a letter from her in response. The page's editor, Gail Collins, would not, it seems, take her calls. "A very, very snotty assistant said to me, 'Let me take your information.' Ms. Collins was 'busy,' 'unavailable' . . .")

Stories like this explain why Schadenfreude at the downsizing of NYT personnel is justified.

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[q_an_a]

that it took this women to stop Pataki from letting the IFC on the grounds of the WTC shows why he has no chance of being nominated for anything ever again in the Republican party. A blind man could figure this out - even a Rockefeller republican would be better than Pataki. /negataive rant about a loser off - this woman is greaqt back on.

thanks for the post.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Don't ever dismiss a "hausfrau". Great article!

[trek]

This was a truly uplifting article. The forces of sanity finally won one. It has made my day.

[mcCabesPub]

any word on Mrs. Britwieser ,she was an anti Bush lefty shill who sadly lost a love one on 9/11.she was the media go to gal when they needed an anti bush quote .was she for or against the IFC..just wonderin'

[freema]

Refreshing piece of inspiration.
I lift my "This is no ordinary housewife you're dealing with" coffee cup in cheers.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Tunku Varadarajan always writes excellent opinion articles. Every time I see his byline in the Journal, I know it's a must-read.

[Pessimist]

"Finding interlocutors on the telephone wasn't always this hard for Ms. Burlingame. After her op-ed appeared in the Journal in June, she received calls from political players in Washington, asking her to drop her opposition to Mr. Bernstein's project. She is prepared, only, to name John Bridgeland--a former director of the Domestic Policy Council in President Bush's White House, deputy policy director for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign, and, after 9/11, the first director of the USA Freedom Corps Office. He called twice "to discourage me . . ."

Gosh. That W can really pick a staff, huh?

[new yorker 77]

Debra makes me proud to be from Westchester County, New York. She is a star in a sea of dimwits.