{"id":192702,"date":"2009-03-03T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/03\/why-david-paterson-less-popular-than-a-case-of-the-clap\/"},"modified":"2009-03-03T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:25:00","slug":"why-david-paterson-less-popular-than-a-case-of-the-clap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/03\/why-david-paterson-less-popular-than-a-case-of-the-clap\/","title":{"rendered":"Why David Paterson Less Popular than a Case of the Clap"},"content":{"rendered":"

And maybe even less popular than Dick Cheney<\/a>, according the the latest Marist poll, 26% favorable, with the poll showing him being trounced by Andrew Cuomo in the primary, and being soundly beaten by Rudolph Guiliani in the general.<\/p>\n

I think that his slime campaign against Caroline Kennedy is a part of this, but his bleatings about how you can’t raise taxes on the rich, or they will leave the state, is what really put people over the edge.<\/p>\n

His argument is, of course, completely absurd. No one<\/span> lives in in New York, or at least no one lives in New York south of Albany, because it’s a low cost place to live.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting here is that there are a lot of conservatives in New York, particularly in Long Island and upstate, and there is a long tradition of conservatism in those areas, and they hate him too<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I think that this is significant because people are finally beginning to understand that keeping taxes low on rich folk buggers the rest of society (without lube).<\/p>\n

After 30 years of soak the poor (and middle class) tax policies, people are finally starting to get it.<\/p>\n

As for what looks like a soon to be former Governor Paterson, who missed this shift, and looks like he might be crushed by it, the great Gary Larson put it best:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And maybe even less popular than Dick Cheney, according the the latest Marist poll, 26% favorable, with the poll showing him being trounced by Andrew Cuomo in the primary, and being soundly beaten by Rudolph Guiliani in the general. I think that his slime campaign against Caroline Kennedy is a part of this, but his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,978,1091,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-politics","category-polls","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}