Culprit du Jour
The New York Post publishes an op-ed piece by the Manhattan Institute’s EJ McMahon. New York’s decline is Nelson Rockefeller’s fault. Discuss.
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Merr Says:July 8th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Since Rockefeller was governor before I was born, I could care less about this. What’s important is who is going to do something about it now. Too bad no politician in state government (Dem, Repub or other)seems to have the will or desire to change from the status quo.
Mike In WNY Says:July 8th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
There have been many culprits between Rockefeller and now, including the State Legislature which is complicit to the nth degree.
Denizen Says:July 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Ahhh, NYS….always ahead of the curve…
Chris M Says:July 8th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
The gap between US average and NY seems to be widening. All NY politicians are guilty, and it’ll be the death of the state.
mike hudson Says:July 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
“Since Rockefeller was governor before I was born, I could care less about this.”
thanks merr. what with the vietnam war and the rockefeller administration being primary points of discussion, this place is starting to look like the history channel.
actually the interesting piece in this morning’s post op ed section was by rich lowry. it was called “barack’s patsies: obama’s astounding bad faith.”
it talked about obama’s promises turing the primary that the time was over when politicians could go around “telling the american people what they want to hear instead of telling the american people what they need to hear.”
lowry goes on to point out that, since he won the primary, obama has changed his positions on campaign finance, fisa and his timetable for getting american troops out of iraq, proving he’s just the same sort of lying political hack he railed against!
that’s real current events. but of course, for a lot of reasons, pundit prefers ancient history these days.
hank Says:July 8th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Much of the mess that is NY today DID begin with Nelson Rockefeller.
If I had 10 bucks for every time my father (a life long Republican) said “That God-damn Rocky”, I could retire.
Rocky never met a tax he didn’t like. A very fiscally liberal Republican, he expanded state government, and expanded the tax base any way he could, including the famous “hot dog tax”.
On the asshat side, he also pushed for and signed drug laws that made (pretty much) possession of a joint of pot the same as possession of 10 decks of heroin back in the early 70’s. Filling the prisons with drug users and low level street dealers did nothing to help the drug problems, but did give work to guys like Haterade and his correction officer union pals. No profit comes from prisons, just costs.
The seeds of the business unfriendly state of NY and it’s taxed to death (or taxed to NC,FL,AZ,TN,etc) population were sown and tended by Rocky, and the moronic democrats (Carey,Cuomo) and republicans (Pataki) that followed him.
Buffalopundit Says:July 8th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Hey, hudson. Take this:
And shove it up your creaky ass.
Also - if you’re quoting Rich Fucking Lowry as a fair arbiter of what Democrats might or might not be doing, then you’re quite obviously a cretin. I eagerly await your non-sequitur threadjack in some other random post about something really pithy that Limbaugh said today.
I happen to think it’s a lot funnier to watch McCain’s run to the right-wing, Christianist lunatic fringe of the Republican Party than Obama’s hop to the center.
Thanks.
Mike Says:July 8th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Oh Oh the beer drinking, chain smoking Hudson will want to kick your ass next!! But you have wait until he’s done with me.
mike hudson Says:July 8th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
hey pundit, why the grief? i was simply quoting from the same section of that same bastion of jornalistic goodliness you filched your item from. yes, in today’s great new york post, just one page after the stupid article you quote as gospel:
“What makes Obama’s textbook dash to the center so extraordinary isn’t just its speed, but how it falsifies the very essence of his candidacy.”
sounds about right to me. now tell us more about this rocky who was governor before hank was old enough to vote or that vietnam thingee from when you were still sucking at your mother’s teat.
as you can see merr was all fascinated and shit.
mike hudson Says:July 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
(waiting for the obligatory crack smoking drunk line from the the retarded chris smith.)
Timothy Domst Says:July 8th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
This is the article referred to in the NY Post piece, and I have to agree that the guy was a very mixed bag, he legalized abortion and ended capital punishment, but the Taylor law and the addiction to creating unaccountable public authorities are KILLING us now. If you want to pretend that this happened so long ago that it can’t really be a current issue then you’re wrong, it is a perfect illustration of how government decisions last for generations. To be honest I don’t think these big problems with NYS will be over before I’m dead, and I’m 40.
Timothy Domst Says:July 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
My link was supposed to be this