Frank Rich of NY Times, on Rep. Peter King

When the NY Times, LA Times and WSJ broke the banking scandal, Congressman Peter King most strenuously called for a criminal investigation of the NYT.

In a fitting response, Frank Rich heaps scorn on King:

'Representative King, so eager to label others treasonous, has humiliating headlines of his own to counteract: he's the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee who has so little clout and bureaucratic aptitude that he couldn't stop the government led by his own party from stripping New York City, in his home state, of 40 percent of its counterterrorism funding. If there's another terrorist attack, he may be the last person in New York who should accuse others, as he did The Times on the House floor on Thursday, of having blood 'on their hands.'