Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player?
1. John D. Feerick, as chairman of the New York State Ethics Commission, presenting the 7th annual Theodore Roosevelt Ethics Award to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — “in recognition of its outstanding commitment to ethics in state government.”
2. Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) saying that he told President George W. Bush, in tandem with 10 GOP colleagues, that “things have got to change” in Iraq given that “people's patience is running very, very, very thin.”
3. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, non-candidate for president, declaring while presenting his national energy agenda: “In this day and age, it is the mayors of this country that are really facing the substantive issues.”