Posted on 01/29/2008 9:17:17 PM PST by jdm
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BETWEEN GROWING UP IN Rhode Island and later moving to New York, I've witnessed a lifetime of political corruption. It's part of the landscape, like barren trees in the winter and obese tourists in the summer. When an elected official vows to "clean up the capitol," I calmly wait for the headline that features his or her name followed by the words "under investigation."
And so it is with New York Governor Elliot Spitzer. As Attorney General, Spitzer was known as the Sheriff of Wall Street, bringing down the wing tipped bad guys with a loaded subpoena and a grimace that would make Richard Widmark shudder. To me, he always seemed like the kind of guy who'd go after a self-employed accountant for not cleaning out the coffee filter. It wasn't until he successfully sued several record companies in a payola scandal that I grudgingly gave him his due. Anyone who forces an industry to pay the price for putting Jennifer Lopez on the public airwaves is okay by me. Not okay enough for me to actually vote for him, but enough to give him a 100-day pass upon election.
"Day one, everything changes": that was Gov. Spitzer's promise, alluding to George Pataki's administration. It was bad enough that the rebuilding of Ground Zero went nowhere during his hapless third term. What was worse, to his one-time supporters anyway, was the way Pataki--distracted by a possible presidential run--watched the destruction of the state Republican party with the interest of a halfwit studying a dustbunny.
So to most New Yorkers, "Day one, everything changes" sounded mighty good indeed. Unfortunately, in no time that promise was replaced by the livelier "I'm a f---ing steamroller, and I'll roll over you." Spitzer might have been talking to Republican minority leader...
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In what might have been a curious way of taking heat off the scandal, Spitzer announced his plan to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens. That's like distracting cops from your child pornography collection by showing off your meth lab.
If only this would revive the Republican party enough to make it so I could return to my home state of New York without living in a police state.
With my last breath, I SPITZ at thee; For hate’s sake, I stab at thee!
“Pataki—distracted by a possible presidential run—watched the destruction of the state Republican party with the interest of a halfwit studying a dustbunny.”
True. Pataki’s legacy.
He singlehandedly destroyed the NY republican party. Actually he had a lot of help from none other than Bruno. The republican senate used to be a check on the profligate ways of the dim assembly and the usually profligate governor. Instead, Albany became a contest to see who could piss away more money, the dims or the pubs. Not sure who won, but the state was the ultimate loser.
ROFL!!
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