[DarthVader]

Cuomo has no choice cut taxes and spending or go bankrupt.

[NonValueAdded]

checking the treetops for pork ...

[mia]

His goal is to be president someday. He has to act like a conservative to even be considered. In this way of thinking, if he can turn the economic tide in New York, he can turn the economic tidal wave in the US.

[wideawake]

He's adopting the Paladino fiscal platform while eschewing the Paladino paranoia and the Paladino psychotic rage.

Andrew Cuomo is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he's turning out to be far shrewder than his "brilliant" father.

He's clearly angling for something bigger.

[goldstategop]

Its rare to see a Democrat embrace a small government approach. Andrew Cuomo represents the antithesis of his father’s thinking that Big Government is always better and you can’t have too much of it.

That’s the problem New York has. If a Democrat can embrace common sense in a Deep Blue State, there’s hope for the rest of America!

[pnh102]

I hope Gov. Cuomo is successful in implementing all of these cuts.

[sickoflibs]

This is the irony that many here missed. When Liberal bankrupt states like NY and CA vote back in Democrats like Brown(CA) and Cuomo(NY) in these bad conditions, they are forced to tell their voters the bad news. They have to give up their socialist talking points claiming more taxes will fix everything.

But when they vote in RINOS (the only Republicans with a chance of winning in those states), they can blame everything on Republicans opposing spending.

Here's a question. When a RINO goes up for re-election Democrats will successfully call them phonies for going along with them on tax increases after they successfully trap them in a corner.(MD Dem Gov O Malley won big in this the past election, as did Clinton beat Bush in 1992 using this strategy.)

But when liberals get themselves in this trap and are forced into unpopular spending cuts, why don't Republicans attack Democrats for it?

[Clintonfatigued]

This is a case where the DemocRAT had no other choice.

[Lancey Howard]

This is the same guy who, while in Clinton’s cabinet, went around the country like Johnny Appleseed tossing billions of tax dollars down the toilet to fight “homelessness”? I’ll believe Cuomo’s big talk when I actually see big cuts, and not a second before.

[The Mayor]

What tax cuts? He plans a tax cap at 2%... Where are the tax cuts?

[Little Ray]

We could do worse than Cuomo for a Democrat president.
Wait! We already have!
Of course, I’d prefer a “Zell Miller” Democrat, myself.

We could do a lot better with a non-RINO conservative ‘Pubby, though.