Last night was some partying in South Beach, which reminded me that I love Spring Break. Today I speak at lunch at a fashion show to the East Broward Republican Women. In the evening I have the Cooper City/Davie Republican Club. Both of these events are in Fort Lauderdale.
As exhausted as I am, I had to weigh in about several New York Democrats.
Yes, they are a disgrace. However, most people fail to understand the real disgrace.
I will quickly take them one by one before getting to the scandal nobody wants to discuss, and why this bothers me so much.
Eliot Spitzer was a scuzzbucket. None of the others compare to him. He is a horrid human being. None of the three current New York Democrats reach his level.
Start with Charles Rangel. I will begin with something positive. The man served America honorably in the Korean War. I give him all the credit in the world for that.
My problem with him is that he has played the race card more than once, and compared conservative tax cutters to the KKK. He gets away with it because he smiles. He is “Good ol’ Charlie,” the lovable rascal.
Is he crooked? Of course he is. Should he go to jail? If found guilty, sure. Will he? Of course not.
As for David Patterson, I am disappointed in him. I really had high hopes for him. I disagreed with his liberal ideology, but I really thought it was awesome that a blind man could lead New York. I felt it was another barrier that had been broken down. Also, when Governor Patterson immediately disclosed his past infidelities and drug use, I felt he was going to bring in an ethical administration that was the anti-Spitzer.
Initially he seemed to be like David Dinkins, a good guy that was not tough enough for the job. He was weak. Yet his intervening on behalf of one of his subordinates who beat up a woman was stupid, reckless, and possibly illegal. Richard Nixon taught us that blind loyalty is not the answer. Sometimes friends have to be cut loose, especially when they break the law.
As for Congressman Massa, he is slime. I watched his interview on Glenn Beck, and I felt like I needed a scrubbing. He also served his country honorably, but his short congressional career has been dishonorable. His allegations about Rahm Emanuel are believable, which is why I do not believe them. Rahm Emanuel is every bit as awful as he is made out to be, but because he is such an easy target, I think he might be innocent this one time. Massa has no credibility, and unless he has proof of what Rahm did, I am not jumping on the Rahm bashing train on this one.
Yet these corrupt New York Democrats have me angry. I am deeply offended by their screwups for a reason that nobody is talking about. The whispers are already beginning.
You know what whispers I am talking about.
People are saying that New York politicians are becoming like “those people.”
That’s right, I’ll say it. We are on the verge of being seen as…
New Jersey.
This cannot ever happen. New Jersey gave us Jim McGreevey, Jon Corzine, and a million other corruptocrats ranging from crooked politicians to clergy men on the take.
New Jersey makes Pinochet’s Chile seem ethical.
I don’t care if Rangel, Patterson, and Massa go to jail. Just get them out of New York. Deport them to Trenton.
When football coach Sam Wyche saw the home crowd at a Cincinnati Bengals game throwing trash on the field, he angrily picked up the microphone. He yelled at the crowd to be civilized, thundering, “You don’t live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati.”
Well my message to these New York politicians is to knock it off. You represent New York, not New Jersey.
I live in Los Angeles, but I am a New Yorker until the day I die. I was born and raised there. New Yorkers are my people. When somebody does something stupid in California, making it the national laughingstock, I can say that I am a New Yorker living in California.
I am proud of my Brooklyn heritage. I am proud to be from New York.
I never want being from New York to be a source of shame.
So take Spitzer, Massa, Patterson, and Rangel, and deport them to Atlantic City.
Some people obsess over Obama’s birth certificate. Well they need to obsess over the birth certificates of the above New Yorker politicos. Find me evidence that they are really Jerseyites. Perhaps they would then under the state constitution be ineligible to serve.
The day the New York Jets and Giants call themselves New Jersey, NYPD and FDNY will engage in cross-border violence. This must be prevented now.
New York Democrats can either act like New Yorkers, or move to New Jersey.
Tony Soprano is from Jersey. The Statue of Liberty is a New Yorker. That settles it for me.
New Yorkers will tolerate many things, but being compared to New Jersey is not one of them.
New York civilization is on the line.
Clean up your act guys. We are not them. The whisper campaign must stop.
The next New York politico to screw up should be waterboarded behind the Log Flume at Six Flags Great Adventure, located in…well, you know. The place where hidden crimes are a way of life.
eric
“That’s right, I’ll say it. We are on the verge of being seen as…
New Jersey.”
ROTFLMAO!!! Have you been watching Fred Armisen do David Paterson on SNL? Man, if just for those New Jersey jokes, I’m going to reallly miss the ol’ Blind Gov!
Some years ago I accidentally offended the hell out of a co-worker. I was talking to the guy sitting next to him. The guy asked me if I liked Mark Greene for mayor of NYC. This was when Greene first ran against Bloomberg. I told him, “Look, the Democratic machine in NYC is just too big, too corrupt, too insitutionally inept.” And then I said, “I may be a liberal, but there’s no way I’m stupid enough to want that!” Meanwhile, my co-worker (and old family friend) was sitting next to us reading a book by Mark Greene and was apparenty working on the Greene campaign. Oops! He didn’t speak to me much after that.
Both the Downstate Dems and Upstate GOP are very crooked. I thought Armisen put it well when he said that Andrew Cuomo, should he win the governorship, would be “eaten alive by those upstate goblins. They’re going to tear that guy apart and use his blood for their cave paintings. Andrew, if you’re in Albany, I can recommend a great place to go to dinner. It’s called Manhattan. And if you need a good restroom, just use… New Jersey!”
Politically – and it doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you’re looking at – NY is just a plain ol’ disfunctional state. NYC should break off and become it’s own state. It’s far better run – and that’s saying pretty much nothing!
JMJ
“ROTFLMAO!!! Have you been watching Fred Armisen do David Paterson on SNL? Man, if just for those New Jersey jokes, I’m going to reallly miss the ol’ Blind Gov!’
yeah, this whole things just a riot, isnt it ?
You’re party from Patterson to Pelosi, to Obama is turning out to be the single most damaging governmental colonoscopy this country has ever seen
Supposedly Pelosi knew all alng what freak Massa was and said/did nothing.
But still, when I do the intellectual math i believe Massa’s allegations that theres an awful lot of “Cheeecago” style arm twisting going on here.
Obama along with Rahm will do whatever they have to in order to get as many Americans hooked on this entitlement as possible.
Thats how the left gets its votes.
It convinces people they are vivtims
And the promises that they will aleviate those people of that victimization
Why are you bashing Obama? What has he done to so offend you?
The word id that Pelosi’s staff may have been informed about some of Massa’s nonsense. That doesn’t rise to amount to much. I really don’t care.
I don’t really care about most of this stuff. I worry about serious corruption – like the SCOTUS ruling that corporations are the same as human citizens, the previous administration shredding the constitution for the sake of war profits and this administration turning a blind eye to it, the sleazy GOP railing against financial regulation reforms, etc. I’ll let you guys worry about your little teenage girly scandals.
JMJ
“I worry about serious corruption – ”
then present a movement to impeach Obaama.
Or spare me anymore crap about corruption