Friday, June 19, 2009

NY's litany of bad eggs

From the NY Times:

New Yorkers are running out of ways to describe Albany as a political version of clown school. Perhaps it is time, then, that they examine what the state of the state says about them. If one believes that people in a democracy get the government they deserve, then we in New York should be unable to look in the mirror without cringing.

We overwhelmingly elected a governor, Eliot Spitzer, who turned out to be hooked on prostitutes. His replacement, David A. Paterson, was never thought of as governor material and now has approval ratings at Cheney levels, somewhere in the subbasement. Albany under Governor Paterson is reminiscent of Afghanistan: nominally commanded by a weak leader, but with powerful warlords ascendant.

We elected a state comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, who was forced out of office by scandal. Now, some of his closest associates have been indicted on charges of bribery and grand larceny. A reasonable person may infer that Mr. Hevesi either knew about these shenanigans or was out of touch to the point of dereliction.

To boot, we have an appointed United States senator, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, who immediately upon taking office swiveled on so many major issues that you could have suffered whiplash trying to keep up.

Yes, we New York voters have a lot to account for in our choices. Nor is the reckoning limited to statewide officials. The roster of lower-level politicians who have sat in the back of police cars or worn orange jumpsuits has grown depressingly long.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome to Panama.. I mean NY State.
I'll take Spitzer anytime now over bloomliar and his Gov Patterson doormat in the dark about whats going 3\4 of time.

What Spitzer did is par for the course that goes on with all the politicians. The D.C. madam anybody? She didnt get a chance to tell last year.

Taxpayer said...

We could make elections much more efficient and simpler if we just took a certain percentage of those convicted of various crimes (we want diversity, no?) and, instead of sentencing them to the big house, we just swear them in at the state house.

We citizens would no longer have the chore of studying issues and examining candidates.

And, think of this: these politicians would make cheating, stealing, domestic violence, failure to pay taxes, etc., no longer a crime. We could all keep our own money, and even take money from others. Wooo! We'd all be rich. Yea Crime, Yea!

Anonymous said...

Keep voting for Democrats, keep voting for Democrats people, this is what you will get!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Keep voting for Democrats, keep voting for Democrats people, this is what you will get!

Friday, June 19, 2009

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