More goodies from the Sex On The City debacle. America's Playa detailed the NYPD to walk his dog. Meaning that you paid for it. Not to mention America's finest were pooper-scoopering for Rudy when they could have been, oh, preventing another 9/11 or something ("A noun, a verb...").

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WaPo:

In the late 1970s and '80s, Mukasey and Giuliani were among a group of high-powered former prosecutors who revitalized the litigation practice at the law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler. Mukasey is now on the Tooliain campaign's judicial advisory board, and his son works for Giuliani's law firm.

"It's almost like a fraternity. Everybody thinks they are wearing a white hat doing good working for the government," said Robert G. Morvillo, former chief prosecutor of the Southern District's criminal division and former boss of both Mukasey and Giuliani. Those two men "have grown up in the profession together," he said.

Why, he's practically one of The Family! Which I suppose means that Tooliani has been annointed to serve Bush's Third Term. How re-assuring.

Too much even for Murdoch's paper:

... [T]here are some limits on odd behavior. Which makes us wonder what Rudy Giuliani was thinking last Friday when he accepted, and even flaunted, a phone call from his wife Judith in the middle of his speech to the National Rifle Association.

This was no emergency call. His cell phone rang in his pocket during his speech, which is itself unusual; most public officials turn theirs off during events, if only out of courtesy for the audience. Mr. Giuliani went on to answer it and carry on a routine "love you" and "have a safe trip" exchange with Mrs. Giuliani while the crowd (and those of us watching on C-Span) wondered what in the world that was all about.

His campaign aides spun the episode as a "candid and spontaneous moment" [please play the YouTube now if you have not already] illustrative of the couple's affection. [The current Mrs. Tooliani is, of course, a paid employee of Mr. Tooliani. Odd.] We might believe that if we hadn't heard stories of similar behavior by Mr. Giuliani as he has campaigned around the country. During one event in Oklahoma, we're told he took two calls, at least one from his wife, and chatted for several minutes as the audience waited. That episode followed Mr. Giuliani's eye-popping disclosure earlier this year that, if he's elected, his wife would sit in on Cabinet meetings. He later downplayed that possibility.

[Obligatory balanced boilerplate on Tooliani's supposed competence ommitted.]

The spontaneity was too much even for the NRA:  Read more…

[My bad, as Xan reminds me; late night and exhaustion. Rudy wasn't tossed off the 9/11 panel, but off the ISG, of which Baker was the head. I knew that! I knew that! But it does get better. You know who replaced him? Ed Meese. Jeebus.]

So, even the Bushies can't stomach the man. Newsday:

Rudolph Giuliani's membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel's top Republican to give him a stark choice: either attend the meetings or quit, several sources said.

At some point, Baker spoke to Giuliani to find out if he intended to continue his involvement with the group. "He basically said, if people can't make the meetings, we've got to find people who can," [Leon] Panetta recalled.

Of course, Rudy had his reasons:

CBS:

As for his presidential ambitions, Giuliani coyly inched closer to a formal announcement.

"I am 100 percent committed," he said. "That official part, I still have to do a formal announcement. But we'll figure out how to do that. My idea is that I'm going to try to announce this in 100 different places."

Coy, eh? I wouldn't call Rudy "coy."