Not with a Democratic Senate he won’t.

Here come the purge! Growth through shrinkage.

And if another conservative joins Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts, then it wouldn’t matter what the president’s views on abortion are, as the justices most likely to step down sooner are the more liberal ones.

- his stewardship of the previously “ungovernable” New York City was textbook – he slashed corporate taxes, got many citizens off the welfare rolls, tangled with the previously – intractable public unions and won concessions from them, and beefed up the Police Department substantially – all of which allowed NYC to rise from the ashes and assume it’s prominent standing today;

- he had his security detail throw Yasser Arafat out of the New York Met during a performance, and said that terrorists didn’t deserve to have the same priviledges as US citizens, and the hell with his UN bona fides.

Sure, that last point is more amusing than substantial, but the guy puts his money where his mouth is, every time. He was exactly the same way during his tenure as the AG, when he went up against the mob in order to close down their racketeering efforts on the docks.

The country is nowhere near any kind of consensus about banning abortion, so I don’t think it makes much difference who the president is; it obviously hasn’t so far. And gay marriage as a practical matter is something over which the president has pretty much no say anyway. But the president does make a real impact on things like taxes and defense, and Giuliani’s right on the money for me in those areas.

If it holds down government spending for the next two years (hard to imagine the next Congress spending more than what the Repubs have over the past few years) while not compromising national security, I’ll be reasonably happy.