Leaders’ Meetings Widely Panned
Here’s a look at some of the editorial reactions and analysis to yesterday’s session, in which nothing was accomplished.
The Albany Times-Union said it was a “showcase of New York dysfunction” and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos showed “New Yorkers exactly why he no longer deserves to be Senate majority leader.”
And the Post asks “why are these men smiling?”
The New York Times said that Senate Republicans walked out the winner because they got what they wanted: no cuts and no decisions until January, when Democrats in the Senate would have to deal with it. “The Republicans’ strategy was deft. It was brilliant,” the paper wrote.
The Daily News called the leaders “our gutless wonders” and says “to call them childish is to insult children. To call them clownish is to demean the members of an honorable profession. To call them cowards is to capture the essence of New York State’s legislative leaders.”
The Journal News said the events in Albany was “OAS_AD(‘ArticleFlex_1’);as predictable as bare trees in November.”
The Buffalo News said “Legislators appear content to treat the state’s financial crisis as just another problem to ignore as upstate continues its slide into pauperhood.”
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there is nothing brilliant about doing nothing in
the face of a crisis..its like running away
when you are in combat..these guys and especially
the republican senate are cowards…they refuse
to cut because they fear the unions…great stuff
it was a good move. The Democrats will have to make the call after January. They will have to deal with the voters.
we are in the worst financial crisis since 1932 and you
are talking about “a good political move” for republicans
that is what the nation is quite sick of…me too
Where oh where is the outspoken Assemblyman Ball????????????????? No commnents from his camp on this budget crisis???????????????