Where Pirro failed to rise to the occasion was in the paucity of detail behind some of her more serious policy statements. For instance, she called for making the Bush administration tax cuts permanent - a decision that would deepen the deficit and drive up interest rates, without helping the middle class and poor. She would eliminate the estate tax on even the wealthiest inheritors.

But if she is going to take these positions, their success predicated on supply-side (a/k/a "voodoo") economics, Pirro at least should know their cost to the budget. She did not. Edward Cox, who may run a GOP primary against her, should learn from her less than dazzling debut.

This New York Times article suggests Jeanine is making a mistake by focusing on the carpetbagger issue - or Hillary's future presidential plans:

Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said Ms. Pirro seemed to be "somewhat barking up the wrong tree" with her argument about Mrs. Clinton's future prospects.

"In politics, you have to tell people something they don't know," he said. Rick Lazio, Mrs. Clinton's opponent in 2000, "learned that the hard way," he said, "when he said she was not a New Yorker, but a carpetbagger; that was a one-note song." "So Pirro runs the risk of being a one-note song reminiscent of the Lazio carpetbagger theme."