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Monday, June 27, 2011 12:39:59 PM
Governor Andrew Cuomo ..
There's good stuff in here .. From Nate, From Jon Chait and Matt Yglesias ..JUST short but great snips of their articles .. for instance ,. .I can't resist this one ..
Nate: But the type of leadership that Mr. Cuomo exercised — setting a lofty goal, refusing to take no for an answer and using every tool at his disposal to achieve it — is reminiscent of the stories sometimes told about with President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had perhaps the most impressive record of legislative accomplishment of any recent president. It’s also a brand of leadership that many Democrats I speak with feel is lacking in President Obama.
Matt Yglesias: Suppose that the New York State Senate operated according to the rules of the United States Senate and a bill failed unless it secured a 60 percent supermajority. What would people be saying about Andrew Cuomo now? Well, it seems to me that many people would be castigating his failed leadership. Instead of Michael Barbaro’s account of his behind-the-scenes leadership reading like a virtuoso performance it would be reading like a story of a failed inside game. The meeting with high-dollar pro-equality Republican donors would seem not savvy, but naive and weak. Conversely, if the US Senate operated on a 50 vote rule, then both the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank bill would have gone further in advancing progressive priorities, there would have been more economic stimulus in the 111th Congress, the DREAM Act would have passed, and it’s conceivable that some kind of nationwide carbon pricing scheme would be in place. Which is just to say that political institutions matter, a lot.
Jon Chait: I think the lesson here is that wealthy people exert massively disproportionate influence over American politics. Donors in both parties tend to be more socially liberal and economically conservative than the party’s voters. A large share of Republican voters favor higher taxes on the rich and oppose cutting Medicare, but those positions have zero GOP representation at the national elected level. Likewise, national Democrats are also far more pro-business than are Democratic voters. If Obama’s agenda attracted the support of a large chunk of the Republican donor base, he’d probably attract more Republican support in Congress, which in turn would make moderate Democrats less skittish.
.........all the links plus Ezra s comments here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-political-lessons-of-new-yorks-same-sex-marriage-vote/2011/05/19/AGuhcSnH_blog.html
There's good stuff in here .. From Nate, From Jon Chait and Matt Yglesias ..JUST short but great snips of their articles .. for instance ,. .I can't resist this one ..
Nate: But the type of leadership that Mr. Cuomo exercised — setting a lofty goal, refusing to take no for an answer and using every tool at his disposal to achieve it — is reminiscent of the stories sometimes told about with President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had perhaps the most impressive record of legislative accomplishment of any recent president. It’s also a brand of leadership that many Democrats I speak with feel is lacking in President Obama.
Matt Yglesias: Suppose that the New York State Senate operated according to the rules of the United States Senate and a bill failed unless it secured a 60 percent supermajority. What would people be saying about Andrew Cuomo now? Well, it seems to me that many people would be castigating his failed leadership. Instead of Michael Barbaro’s account of his behind-the-scenes leadership reading like a virtuoso performance it would be reading like a story of a failed inside game. The meeting with high-dollar pro-equality Republican donors would seem not savvy, but naive and weak. Conversely, if the US Senate operated on a 50 vote rule, then both the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank bill would have gone further in advancing progressive priorities, there would have been more economic stimulus in the 111th Congress, the DREAM Act would have passed, and it’s conceivable that some kind of nationwide carbon pricing scheme would be in place. Which is just to say that political institutions matter, a lot.
Jon Chait: I think the lesson here is that wealthy people exert massively disproportionate influence over American politics. Donors in both parties tend to be more socially liberal and economically conservative than the party’s voters. A large share of Republican voters favor higher taxes on the rich and oppose cutting Medicare, but those positions have zero GOP representation at the national elected level. Likewise, national Democrats are also far more pro-business than are Democratic voters. If Obama’s agenda attracted the support of a large chunk of the Republican donor base, he’d probably attract more Republican support in Congress, which in turn would make moderate Democrats less skittish.
.........all the links plus Ezra s comments here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-political-lessons-of-new-yorks-same-sex-marriage-vote/2011/05/19/AGuhcSnH_blog.html
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