President Obama must be tired of trying to control Congress, national media, and federal agencies so he has decided to try something new.
Controlling state politics.
Specifically the governor's race in New York.
And the incumbent Democratic governor, David Paterson, told President Obama to pound sand.
So President Obama, being the big man that he is, leaked the story to the media to try and put the pressure on Gov. Paterson. The White House would "prefer" Andrew Cuomo to run instead. The meeting happened on the same day that the President invited himself to give a speech on Wall Street this last week. David Paterson, despite failing numbers in all polls, told the President that he is still running for governor next year.
Wow. The a branch of the federal government trying to use the bully pulpit to influence state politics.
What an awful abuse of power and contempt for the Constitution's separation of federal and states' rights.
No comments:
Post a Comment