Posted on 02/02/2011 8:02:23 PM PST by neverdem
Cuomo has no choice cut taxes and spending or go bankrupt.
checking the treetops for pork ...
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.
I live in nys and so far he seems to be modeling himself after christie.
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.
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!
I hope Gov. Cuomo is successful in implementing all of these cuts.
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?
This is a case where the DemocRAT had no other choice.
“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.”
Yup.
But he has to be more than a fiscal conservative to get my vote.
He's clearly angling for something bigger.
Daddy wants him in the place he could not attain himself.
I see him running for President in 2020. He’ll want two terms under his belt first.
He took a leaf straight from Steve Levy’s playbook: He told the public employee unions that if they didn’t give him the concessions he asked for he would fire 10,000 of them. It worked for Levy, so maybe it will work for Cuomo.
Whatever his future ambitions, I give him kudos for taking these bold moves in a deep-blue state such as NY. And, quite possibly, he has been watching his neighbor, Chris Christie, and taken a page out of his playbook.
Whatever, if he is positioning himself for higher office or not, the people of NY deserve a break, and kudos to him if he implements his plans. Maybe, just maybe, he cares about his state and the mess its in.
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.
Actually, Cuomo did have a choice: he could have followed the Pat Quinn playbook and raised taxes, thereby sinking the economy further; Senate Republicans would have probably gone along if the price was right.
If he wants to be POTUS one day and is smart enough to figure out that to get there he has to be conservative, and if en route that means turning around the economy of NYS, and in the process takes on the state worker unions, then we should celebrate his ambition. I’m not even from NY, but for this I’m cheering him on.
What tax cuts? He plans a tax cap at 2%... Where are the tax cuts?
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