Hush! Prince Andrew speaks . . .

I do much love writing about Andrew Cuomo.  He's so deliciously hyperbolic.  His pompous pronunciamentos are doubly hilarious because he really is serious in declaiming them.  Then there is  the sonorous Shakespearean delivery - well!

His latest is a royal rebuke of  provincial Congressmen Chris Collins and our own Tom Reed here in the footless reaches of the real America which yet abides in the People's Principality of NY (C).  He calls them traitors; all that is good preserve me from blasphemy, he does. They are latter day Benedict Arnolds, too, by his high lights. An accusation of treason merits serious consideration, I'd say, rather than childish vindictiveness, before it is responsibly levelled.  Benedict Arnold was a very significant figure in the history of NY and for many good things he did as well as his tragic dissent. But I doubt that Prince Andrew knows much about the history of "his"state.  He is too busy creating history and planning for his ascension to the Crown itself.

Ostensibly the Congressmen were denounced for having advanced the passage of a federal budget including the discontinuance of federal tax deductions for state and local taxes. But the House version was crafted in a manner which also makes Democrat party obstruction of it far more difficult in the Senate.  It is only common sense to say, given the frantic and bigoted legislative record of Democrats since the intolerably democratic establishment of President Trump, that content is irrelevant and origin is all that matters to Democrat representatives; Republicans sometimes actually muster the insolence involved in recognizing and countering this certainty.  That is one of the Prince's real concerns I think.  The other is that the inability to benefit from state taxes on one's federal return will focus much unwanted consequent attention on the excessive state taxes required by His Righteousness in accomplishing the transfer of wealth from the productive to the willfully unproductive which is his fondest dream.  "Let them stew" he would sniff when reminded that such deductions place an unfair federal burden, when  profligate tax and spend leftists reign, on states without confiscatory state taxes and with no say in NY or CA or NJ tax law.   

God speed him in his quest for the Democrat nomination.  That means he will  be forced  to converse (well, sorta) with the country for a very long time indeed and will give us much opportunity to see him at his rib tickling best; it may also relieve New York of his onerous authority and his insufferable sanctimoniousness in policy making..  I think he has about as much chance of actually being elected as  Kim Jong Un has of becoming an honorary U.S. citizen but it will be so much fun to see him slavering after it in high theatrical mode.  He ought to study the condescending  and disingenuous address Shakespeare's lordly Coriolanus made to the Roman mob he despised because that's the way our Prince will look upon the task of "relating" to everyone between Binghamton and Bakersfield. Just imagine the rolling eyes, the disingenuous smile and the imperious tones wowing audiences in the "flyover country" to which he ventures, even in NY, only on compulsion and with nauseous misgivings.  Run, Andy, run.  I can't wait to hear our President Trump say to you "Andrew, you're  full of hot air and you're in love with yourself." But then, that's obvious to common sense real Americans.  Jack