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Of Princess Caroline, Prince Andrew, and His Accidency Governor Patterson

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:14:18 PM
Poor Prince Andrew Cuomo.  He really thought he had a chance to succeed Mrs. Bill Clinton in the US Senate representing New York.  He's an actual New Yorker (I think), which would have helped, I think.  He has an actual resume, unlike Princess Caroline of Kennedy.  However, Andy forgot that he's a Democrat.  He forgot that Democrat Governor His Accidency David Patterson could not be expected to appoint a man to a Senate seat held by a woman, especially radical feminist icon Hillary.  Too bad, Andy.  That's what you should expect when you're a member of the EGG Party.*
 
 
 
In a way, it's too bad that the Accidental Governor didn't appoint Princess Caroline to the Senate seat.  It would have been a rare case of trying to fill a vacancy with a vacancy.
 
 
 
* For those of you who don't know this Billy Jeff Clinton administration chestnut, EGG stands for Ethnicity, Gender, and Geography.  It's how the (first) Clinton administration (we're at the start of the second now under President BO) fillled many of its appointive posts.
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David Blagojevich Patterson?

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Monday, December 22, 2008 1:29:04 PM
Rather overshadowed by the Rod Blagojevich scandal, a Senate seat in New York is also opening up, thanks to Hillary Clinton's acceptance of Barack Obama's offer to be his nominee for the post of Secretary of State.  Since she is certain of approval, the seat will need filling until a special election can be held in 2010.  One of the aspirants to the vacancy is Caroline Kennedy, of the "rich and dirty" family Kennedy  (hat tip to P.J. O'Rourke, I think).  She has no political experience -- ZERO -- and no ties to any part of the state except perhaps New York City.  What she does have, however, is a family with gobs of cash and an established history of willingness to spend it on politics.
 
The vacancy will be awarded by His Accidency David Patterson, Governor of New York.  He owes his office to a fluke of luck, since no-one knew that Eliot Spitzer would blow himself right out of office with a sex-for-pay scandal.  (There's an obvious joke in that last sentence.  Perhaps several.)  He knows that he's going to be needing plenty of campaign cash when the time comes to try to persuade the people of New York to elect him to a vote that no-one voted to elect him to before.  Meanwhile, there's Caroline Kennedy, with a big smile and a bigger trust fund.
 
Is that a Senate seat for campaign cash deal I smell?  Perhaps David Patterson is about to try a little Blagojeviching himself...  After all, he is of the new, Clintonion Democratic Party. 
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The Madness of Governor Patterson

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:15:25 PM
It's almost enough to make you wish Eliot Spitzer hadn't been caught.
 
David Patterson, New York's accidental governor (having succeeded Eliot Spitzer in the wake of his "Trousergate" scandal), has decided to break his "no new taxes" pledge and raise (at last count) 88 taxes and fees.  The prostrate Empire State already forces its citizens to pay the nations highest taxes.  Now, in the midst of an economic slowdown, His Accidency wants to drain the taxpayers of his state of any money they had managed to keep from his Sheriffs of Nottingham.  This is literally insane.
 
If the New York government really wanted to save the state's economy, they would do it by closing the budget deficit strictly with spending cuts.  That would make the state business friendly again.  Fat chance that will happen.
 
Governor Patterson apparently thinks he inherited a crown, and not an office.
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New York State of Irony

Posted by The Hermit Crab on Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:16:40
In my home state of New York, we had the State Senate go Republican for the first time in 40 years.  Oddly, this is probably a great blow to the plans of our Democrat Governor, David Patterson.  The Governor, who succeeded to the job when Eliot Spitzer was forced to resign in a prostitution scandal (he wasn't a prostitute, except for campaign cash), is the usual New York liberal in all ways save one -- he actually seems to understand economics. 
 
The state, due in large part to the Wall Street meltdown, is facing a huge budget deficit this years and apparently for years to come.  He realizes that hiking New York's already sky-high taxes would be a catastrophe, since the state is hemorrhaging jobs already.  He was trying to persuade the legislature to cut the bloated state budget, and he was getting at least a little help from  State Senate Republicans.
 
Now, with the take-over of the Senate by his supposed political allies, he most likely has even less chance of accomplishing this than he had before.
 
Train wreck, here we come!
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