The Empire State Strikes Back today on the Political Junkie segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation. The news about Caroline Kennedy actively seeking New York Gov. David Paterson's imprimatur for Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat is topic No. 1.

Kennedy campaign button showing years a family member campaigned for office.

As long as there's a Kennedy running, we'll always have something to talk about.

Special guest: Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), one of three or four Democrats in the state who are not seeking the appointment (but who seriously looked at the Senate seat in 1999 until Hillary Clinton decided she was a New Yorker).

Also on the show: new Cabinet appointments. Ken Salazar to Interior means there will be a new senator in Colorado. And Tom Vilsack to Agriculture means that, um, that Vilsack has a job.

Speaking of which, now that he has resigned his Senate seat, Barack Obama is currently unemployed. This economy is worse than I thought!

Remember, the Political Junkie segment airs every Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern time on Talk of the Nation, NPR's call-in program, where you can often, but not always, find interesting conversation, useless trivia questions and sparkling jokes.

And remember, if your local NPR station doesn't carry TOTN, you can hear the program on the Web or on HD radio. And if you are a subscriber to XM/Sirius radio, you can find the show there as well (siriusly).

(You can listen to last week's show here.)

categories: On The Air

10:53 - December 17, 2008

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