Lunchtime Links

Giuliani to Obama: “Shut up.”

Is forgery the new lobbying?

Hutchinson gets busted for gay-baiting SEO.

Needle exchange makes slow progress.

Maybe Obama’s election wasn’t so politically transformative.

TNR gives us a rather pessimistic rundown of the state of health care reform.

Looks like Gillibrand won’t face a serious primary challenge.

David Brooks praises the Fed’s “wise muddling through.”