New York State:"Land of Four Mouths"

In my previous post I attempted to parody our Governor's oratorical pomposity. But I've just realized that he is not the only "Mighty Mouth" by which our  state is regrettably represented to the real America.

Yesterday, Senate MINORITY Leader, New Yorker Charles Schumer, said in a tone characteristically dripping with contempt, "Mr.President, you'd better not mention the possibility of pardons for Mr. Cohen or Mr. Manafort". Well! I guess you've been warned Mr. President.  Charles never has minced words in expressing his disdain for those who dare to disagree with him. I'm reminded of his preamble to the deciding vote in the Senate trial of William Clinton, which confirmed the conviction of a majority in the U.S. Congress that Slick Willy should be sent packing, in which Charles sniffed "well,let's get this ridiculous procedure over".  That, for a "President" who had denied a U.S. citizen a meaningful day in court(while serving, by oath, as the supreme law enforcer in the nation) in order to save his debauched hide.  Charles has been known for a long time as perhaps the most verbally  dismissive and sarcastic member of Congress - a distinction he apparently regards as justified by his personally undoubted righteousness.

Then there is Presidential stalking horse (for Charles, no less, for whom she is factotum), perky but given to foul wording when referring to the despised majority, very junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - loyal daughter of rural stock (well, at least as "rural" applies to the collegial Albany-NYC  corridor from which she hails) and a declared "defender", consequently, of the 2nd Amendment . She's Mouth #3 despite her transparent pretensions to the ultimate pulpit, from which she would execute Charles' bidding, notwithstanding her man hating feminist front these days.

The fourth but probably not final mouth in a state full of blatherers (including me) is the mouth of the river upon which sits the source of our shame as New Yorkers, the Hudson.  Its a great metropolis, a world class city it must be admitted but it is our burden - we of the real America who yet abide here in this diverse state. Somehow the multitude living and voting there tends to look at things its own way and it doesn't know from others. Would that we were dominated by those of a mind with the residents of the mountainous Adirondack North Country which is the source of that notable watercourse. But that is electorally impossible for us.  Forgive us our baleful contribution to the nation's polity.  Maybe, just maybe, we'll make a change in our state house in November. We did it in '94.  Jack