Comments on: NY Governor Gave Staff Secret Raises

By: greasywrench

greasywrench — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:07:17 +0000

The longer things go on, the more the movie "Idiocracy" become less a comedy/satire and more a documentary.

By: mybrotherkeeper

mybrotherkeeper — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:50:28 +0000

With affirmative action we’ve been dumbing down the country for decades. What we have gotten is the triumph of mediocrity. Guys who are neither excellent in virtue nor brains; simply mediocre. Guys who do not even have the wisdom of common sense — yet they’re running things such as the 2nd biggest state in the union. Really, what do our kids, and their kids, have to look up to? A kid with wisdom and intelligence realizes they are brighter than the authorities above them. Those who look up to them become like them; that is, they can never even surpass them. What kind of leaders will we have in the future? Can you imagine leaders who are even worse than the current crop? I can’t; but realistically, that is what is going to happen. People who are so stupid they think they are smart!!! That is comical!

By: clifcrds

clifcrds — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:53:18 +0000

Yes . . . this is why the word Democrat has been dropped from my vocaculary. I have replaced it with Commiecrat. There is no distinction between them any more, might as well call them for what they really are. From House Resolution 45 (see http://www.stoptheaclu.com/arc.....n-control/ ), to the Fairness Doctrine, to this revealing display of Commiecratic Nomenklaturaism (see http://www.thevanguard.org/the.....0906.shtml ) . . . they are now out in the open to who they really are.

By: proreason

proreason — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:21:18 +0000

There should be an Alltime Hypocrits web-site.

Employment would soar.

By: Consilience

Consilience — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:06:57 +0000

I sat through a brief from a “professional staffer” working for a House committee. He bragged that the Members rarely read legislation; effectively we are “led” by staffers—who are not vetted by the public. Today image trumps substance—but the image of a blind adulterer leading a major state…pc gone mad.

One reason Palin seems like a breath of fresh air is her “ordinariness”—she seems real…

By: 1sttofight

1sttofight — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:59:56 +0000

Nowadays no one with any intelligence and integrity wants to hold public office. It aint worth the effort.

By: Howard Roark

Howard Roark — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:54:59 +0000

Democrats are eternal hypocrites.

If it isn’t Dan Rostenkowski giving his friends cushy jobs at the US Postal administration which they got paid handsomely for yet never showed up to work at, it’s the blind beaurocrat who can’t see a problem with overpaying his posse.

Something tells me that this governor is still overwhelmed by the office he never was prepared to have. He clutches to the wise elders in his midst who worked with his daddy, forever grateful that they run the governor’s office while someone shows him the way to the next female state employee and the nearest broom closet.

By: Consilience

Consilience — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:47:31 +0000

More mischief and duplicity (NY is in a fiscal pickle—like Kansas, CA, and Michigan) from democratic “leaders”. The governor is no better than the man he succeeded; immoral narcissists, hollow moral relativists concerned only with power and the trappings thereof. The truth is, NO ONE takes these Pollyanna’s seriously—they don’t even take themselves seriously (witness the catastrophe that didn’t happen on the delay of TARP I)—and the media’s duplicity should be remembered.

Are we fit to govern ourselves? Why do we continue to vote/allow these people to “lead”? The questions are rhetorical, but illustrative of what we’ve become as a Republic.