Governor Paterson Heads For The Exits

OldSouth had a long day yesterday, and broke his normal routine. It was a good day, but by about 6:00 he was an hour from home, tired and hungry. Eating in restaurants alone is no fun, but it was necessary last night. So, he grabs a copy of yesterday's YewNorkTimes to see what the latest MSM spin is, just for amusement, and finds his table.

Well, hot-DAUMMN!, up on the top left of the front page, in a separate box just to make sure it's not missed, with three writers listed as authors, the news of Governor Paterson's incredibly sleazy behavior as he apparently sought to intimidate a woman that his sleazy top aide has battered.

This is news. This is the second New York governor in three years to get caught in some seriously sleazy behavior.  Paterson even makes Eliot Spitzer look relatively benign. Spitzer just had a case of 'The Joneses' for young hookers, and engaged in bank fraud to cover his tracks. Paterson intervened directly with the battered woman to intimidate her into silence. The State Police (who had no jurisdiction in the case) had also been by for a 'friendly visit'. This crosses the line into truly dark, evil behavior, smudging the line between governance and criminal gang leadership. This is overtly criminal, at both the State and Federal level. (More about that later!)

What stuck OS was the fact that the YewNorkTimes reported it at all. A few years ago, the YewNorkTimes would have actively participated in the cover-up of this criminality--after all, Paterson is a Democrat, black, and blind.  A true liberal 'Three-fer' (Three 'misunderstood oppressed righteous minorities in need of our understanding and unqualified support, all in the same person.  We feel three times as righteous for enabling his criminality. You know--a 'Three-fer'.)

And in today's web edition, news that Paterson won't seek re-election. Boy, that was quick!

Of course, what's needed here is a resignation. Or an impeachment, in case he needs some encouragement to GetOutOfDodge.  If he had a shred of honor....but wait, he threatens battered women, so let's not seek what does not exist.

And, let us remember, the State of New York is on a trajectory toward almost certain bankruptcy. Good to know HizHonor had time to engage in a bit of official extortion on the side...


A few further questions come to mind, while on the subject:

1. This, on its face, is a Federal civil rights case.  Gross abuse of power by a Governor to silence a battered woman seeking redress in a local court.  Does AG Holder have the stones to allow Federal prosecution of  a fellow black Democrat politician?  (Don't hold your breath!)

2. Where's Jesse Jackson, 'speaking truth to power', or Al Sharpton?  Or is it only white-on-black violence that interests them, as grist for  the race-baiting mill?  And, Jesse, Al and Paterson are pretty tight friends over the years, are they not?  How much about behavior this did they know, and decide to sit by in silence?

Once again, the collapse of the YewNorkTimes' subscription base, directly as a result of their complete lack of credibility (and outright hostility to the United States at points), seems to have led to some sort of attitude adjustment somewhere on the daily editorial staff.

Of course, the editors of the Op-Ed page still think the country can spend us into oblivion without consequence, and daily drink the Obama Kool-Aid.  Their conversion experience will have to wait until about the second or third week of November.