Yes, New York is bad for the GOP.

Drudge Report, NYT, Wonkette, all other media with nothing better to do have been reporting the story that Bush's recently withdrawn Homeland Security nominee, Bernard Kerik, didn't just have a 'nanny problem' (which would be sooo 1994 anyway). He was also having an (extramarital) affair with his publisher, in an apartment near ground zero. Supposedly, it's the value of the real estate that's the real problem.

Is this a real story? Maybe for Republicans, since all the details make it seem like just such a blue-state Affair. We prefer to consider in the context of PTSD: it reminds us that our holiday reading list includes Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures.