{"id":2760,"date":"2009-09-22T23:31:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2009-09-22T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:33:00","slug":"ouch-new-york-gov-paterson-blasts-pres-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/ouch-new-york-gov-paterson-blasts-pres-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch: New York Gov. Paterson Blasts Pres. Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The feud between New York Governor David Paterson and the White House took a turn for the worse today with Gov. Patterson essentially telling reporters<\/a> at Columbia University that Obama’s just cranky because he hasn’t accomplished jack (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

I understand the president\u2019s concern, but I understand the concern of staff members at the White House. If you look at it from their perspective, they haven\u2019t exactly been able to govern in the first year of their administration the way other administrations have, where you would theoretically have a period in which the new administration is allowed to pass some of the needed legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every state accepted stimulus money \u2013 some said they weren\u2019t, but all accepted stimulus money \u2013 it was shocking that the vote on the stimulus money for the ARRA went along party lines. Here, with the healthcare legislation, they\u2019re talking about negotiating to get one Republican senator to vote with them \u2013 they can\u2019t get one Republican?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not them, it just seems to be the point of view that: what we\u2019re gonna do, in the middle of a recession \u2013 and it\u2019s a good thing that neither of the political parties were thinking of doing this in the Great Depression \u2013 but in the middle of the recession is: \u2018we\u2019re going to leave off, sit around, and blame the other side.\u2019 See, it\u2019s all \u201ctheir fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

So \u2013 from their perspective, losing any exec seats, losing any Cong. Seats, losing any seats in the State Senate is very important. I think that you see in order to accomplish their healthcare plan, their energy plan, the other ideas that they have for America that really are transformative \u2013 they\u2019ve had to look at who is going to be voting, who can help them. So I don\u2019t have a problem with the fact that they would look to different states to try to get that assistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouch, as much as it pains me to defend Pres. Obama he accomplished a little more than Gov. Paterson is giving him credit for. Sure, his signature issues, health care reform and cap and trade, are wallowing in Congress but he has had some legislative success.<\/p>\n

Allahpundit thinks Gov. Paterson’s remarks are a dig at Republicans<\/a> more they are at Pres. Obama:<\/p>\n

As much as it grieves me to defend The One, (a) is this really a knock on him? It sounds like Paterson\u2019s blaming congressional turmoil on the GOP\u2019s recalcitrance, \u201cparty of no\u201d and all that jazz. If he wanted to rub Obama\u2019s face in the deadlock, he would have knocked him for not having a strong enough hold on his own party to iron out a compromise between Blue Dogs and progressives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He may be right but you could also argue that it’s a dig at the President for acting more like the Salesman in Chief than the Commander in Chief. Pres. Obama has much of his term traveling around the country trying to sell his agenda to an increasingly skeptical public rather then working with Congressional leaders to craft a commonsense health care reform plan that could win broad bipartisan support. At some point the President has to stop selling and start leading. Right now he’s still campaigning.<\/p>\n

Regardless one can hardly blame the President and his advisers for trying to nudge Gov. Paterson toward the exit<\/a>… Simply put he’s an electoral disaster. Think I’m joking? Just take a look at the polling, if New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is the Democratic nominee for governor next year, he beats former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani by 13 points<\/a>. If Paterson\u2019s the nominee, Giuliani wins by 17 points<\/a>… In a\u00a0 head to head in primary match-up, Cuomo crushes Paterson by 46 points<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The feud between New York Governor David Paterson and the White House took a turn for the worse today with Gov. Patterson essentially telling reporters at Columbia University that Obama’s just cranky because he hasn’t accomplished jack (emphasis mine): I understand the president\u2019s concern, but I understand the concern of staff members at the White […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[534,57,478,477],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-2010-elections","tag-barack-obama","tag-david-patterson","tag-new-york","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-Iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1527,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/new-york-governor-wants-to-tax-what\/","url_meta":{"origin":2760,"position":0},"title":"New York Governor Wants to Tax What???","author":"Jeff","date":"February 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a slow news day and I reaching a bit with this but I can't resist planting tongue firmly in cheek and poking a little fun at one of the silliest tax proposals I seen in quite a while. 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