Our accidental and utterly incompetent governor [above left] is within a pair of news cycles from calling quits to his re-election campaign and none too soon. After weeks of gossip that the New York Times was about to spill a juicy sex scandal involving the pro tem lord of Albany, the real story turned out to be less salacious but far more damning than yet another wandering weenie—the news that the governor had tried to hush up a domestic violence accusation against David W. Johnson [above right, with scowl], his erstwhile driver-cum-key advisor. What is it about pols here in New York that makes them want to promote their wheelmen to top patronage jobs? Giuliani unwisely pumped up Bernard Kerik first to head the prisons and then, incredibly, almost to the Department of Homeland Security. Only Kerik’s silly and crude style of cashing in on his influence with extremely dubious characters saved us from seeing him in charge of the main post-9/11 repressive apparatus of the nation and won him a nice jail term instead.
The details of the Paterson self-immolation are quite ugly, and the fact that the governor, who made a big deal of his intolerance of women being smacked around, would stoop to intimidating his buddy’s girlfriend after a particularly violent episode will deservedly end this bozo’s far too lengthy career.
At the same time, is it not curious that while the country has no problem tolerating torture and the continued railroading of foreign (male) detainees, it rises up in horror at the thought of a hand raised against an American woman? I’m all for the indignation, but it would be nice to see a little fairness and consistency as we say a hurried goodbye to the governor-who-never-was.
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