CRAZY ANDY – AT 11:03 A.M. ET:   Andrew Cuomo began well as governor of New York.  His first year made us feel he was a Democrat we could live with.  But in recent months the governor, mentioned as a presidential candidate for 2016 should Hillary not run, has become increasingly extreme and belligerent.  You know it's bad when a governor starts suggesting that people who don't agree with him should leave the state.  From Breitbart:

On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), who has been widely discussed as a possible 2016 presidential candidate, told Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom that “extreme conservatives” should leave the state. He said that “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay” have “no place in the state of New York.”

He began by ripping into the Tea Party without naming it:

You have a schism within the Republican Party. … They’re searching to define their soul, that’s what’s going on. Is the Republican party in this state a moderate party or is it an extreme conservative party? That’s what they’re trying to figure out. It’s a mirror of what’s going on in Washington. The gridlock in Washington is less about Democrats and Republicans. It’s more about extreme Republicans versus moderate Republicans.

He then added:

You’re seeing that play out in New York. … The Republican Party candidates are running against the SAFE Act — it was voted for by moderate Republicans who run the Senate! Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that’s who they are and they’re the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.

COMMENT:  How's that for competence and reason?  We got the first taste of Andy's out-of-control side when he declared Hurricane Sandy the result of global warming.  Even the warming establishment backed away from that. 

No, he's not presidential material.  President of a group therapy center, maybe.

New York is the largest out-migration state in the nation.  More people leave New York than any other.  High taxes, unbelievably high living costs, and diminishing opportunity are the causes.  Apparently, political incorrectness will be the next cause. 

January 19, 2014