Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player?
1) Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel, the chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, which writes the nation’s tax code, who blamed his failure to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic on “cultural and language barriers.”
2) Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who announced with fanfare that his 2009 budget proposal features a tax freeze, but offered no further details on the budget.
3) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who when questioned about her insight on Russia, told ABC’s Charles Gibson, “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”