SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

MR. CLEAN – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  New York Attorney General Eric Schneider man announced his resignation Monday night, hours after The New Yorker magazine published allegations of physical abuse and controlling behavior by four women who had romantic relationships or encounters with him.  "It’s been my great honor and privilege to serve as Attorney General for the people of the State of New York," Schneiderman said in a statement. "In the last several hours, serious allegations, which I strongly contest, have been made against me. While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time. I therefore resign my office, effective at the close of business on [Tuesday]."  It was not immediately clear who would succeed Schneiderman, a Democrat who was seeking a third term as attorney general this November and had been tipped as a possible successor to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  Schneiderman was accused in the wide-ranging report -- co-written by Ronan Farrow -- of hitting and choking women without their consent, asking to use "about half" of a woman's prescription of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, and mocking anti-gun demonstrators including parents from Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of the 2012 shooting massacre, as "losers."  What a comedown.  This guy was presented to us as a pure and noble left-wing activist, who would lift up the downtrodden and bring dignity to his office.  The charges against him are among the most serious I've seen in this area of law.

WHAT A DOPE – FROM FOX:   A top leader of the Democratic Party greeted supporters during Minneapolis' May Day parade while sporting a T-shirt calling for the abolition of national borders.
Democratic National Committee Deputy Chairman Keith Ellison was seen walking the parade route and taking selfies with his "Yo No Creo En Fronteras" shirt.  The Spanish sentence translates to "I do not believe in borders."  "How are you doing? I'm your congressman," Ellison, also a Democratic Minnesota U.S. representative, is heard telling a paradegoer.  "Thank you so much for representing us," one woman tells Ellison.  May Day has its roots in the late 19th Century left-wing International Workers Day.  Earlier this year, Ellison made news for telling a crowd that Democrats "do not have the right to lose a damn election" and that "women are dying" because Republicans have won in the past.  He's something of an extremist, with past ties to Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.  Now he's the number two guy in what used to be the party of Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy.  The new Democratic Party is a running joke.

HILLARY, YOU SHOULDA GONE – FROM THE HILL:   Hillary Clinton joked Monday that she thought about leaving the country after President Trump beat her in the 2016 election.  The former Democratic presidential nominee, speaking in New Zealand during the tour for her book “What Happened,” said she had gotten some offers to move to the nation after the election.  “I must say I really did appreciate the offers. Gave them some thought,” Clinton joked. “But I’m going to stay put because we have work to do in my country as well.”   Well, we came close.  Maybe the incentives just weren't great enough.  Or maybe New Zealand seemed a comedown.  Let's pool our resources and arrange for Hillary to receive an offer to live in a far-away land, with socialized medicine. 

May 8,  2018