The Circus Comes to Albany says the Slate headline....and, I'm not 'xactly saying what role Eliot sees for himself in the circus, but, apparently he can't help but opine. Even though he writes more like a prosecutor than a blogger...
Albany's secretive, authoritarian political culture meant that individual legislators rarely if ever even attempted to exercise the traditional prerogatives that we expect of congressional legislators: voicing serious dissent, pushing an individual legislative agenda, conducting open hearings on contentious issues of public policy.
Deliberating and deciding policy is about "exercising prerogatives," eh? Albany does indeed have a secretive and authoritarian political culture, and this coup was an acting-out of secretive, authoritarian drama. As were, turns out, a few of Eliot's adventures, with the legislature and also with, ah..., other(s).
Thanks for your opinions, Eliot, but, maybe, just maybe, reform has to come from the people, not the, um, secretive and authoritarian leaders.
Am not sure I would believe something was good for me just 'cuz you say so. |
