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Nov. 9, 2006 The voting is over and the results are in. In general, the Democrats won the election over unhappiness with the fight against terrorism, in essence saying they prefer not to fight, and blaming the Republicans, particularly this Administration, for the difficulties the current strategy is encountering, resulting in the replacement of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld with a former CIA head, Robert Gates. Clearly, if this doesn’t confuse, amaze, astound, befuddle and spook America’s enemies nothing will. Here in New York, Hillary Clinton won her second Senate term over an alleged conservative who didn’t seem to understand the meaning of "free taxes, free benefits and free Willie" and didn’t raise much in the way of issues, let alone conservative issues, even though he should have figured out he was running against an ultra-liberal, giving him a good place to start making political hay. The only issue that he raised that caught my attention was that he served in the military and he felt Hillary was unfit to be Commander-In-Chief, giving her too much political dignity and ignoring the fact that as a woman she is not subject to the same requirements that apply to men. As for the rest of the New York campaign, the State legislature remains pretty much the same split between the two parties, with a Republican led Senate and a Democrat run Assembly. In the Governor’s race, Eliot Spitzer, whose current campaign reputation was built on ousting Richard Grasso as head of the then non -profit New York Stock Exchange for receiving an excessive pay package and on forcing Ace Greenburg out as head of insurer AIG for engaging in some allegedly fake transactions that were intended to boost the stock price, easily won. But in the most important scandal that broke out during the campaign, where Controller Alan Hevesi got caught using a state employee as a personal chauffeur for his wife, all the former Attorney General did was ask for an extra payment of $90,000 but not for a resignation, making it clear, from my point of view, that he has two standards of justice, and also allowing Mr. Hevesi to win and join the new Democratic state administration. The Democratic tide also carried Andrew Cuomo along with them by plastering charges of trouble in his opponent’s, Jeanine Pirro, marriage and having the media conveniently ignore Cuomo’s own troubled marital relationship. Talk about a double standard. As an intelligent reader can gather from the prior discussion of Attorney General’s way of looking at ethics of people in high places despite promises of cracking down on crime in public housing one motivation for Mr. Cuomo win is to cover the new Governor’s backside when sticky ethical issues pop up. Especially since Mr. Spitzer has attacked the ethics of the current legislature, I would like to suggest as a way of getting them to tow his political line rather than as a mere issue of honesty, since the new Democratic Governor has no new ethics proposals on hand, to the best of my current knowledge. This is my sixty-first essay for useless-knowledge, where I hope to do most of my future writing although I am still active on ArsCompendium. ------------ About the author Neil Levine: If you want to check out my satires on thespoof.com, click here: http://www.thespoof.com/profile.cfm?uID=2595 Email: neillevine3@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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