Let’s Just Indict the Deficit

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

I don’t know how you’re spending your spring, but here in New York we are all busy waiting for Andrew Cuomo.

Andrew! Soon he will come forward and agree to be nominated for governor. And then he will walk among us, and speak to us. And perhaps even tell us how he would balance the budget.

And New Yorkers will all live happily ever after.

Cuomo is currently the attorney general, and one of the very, very few politicians in our poor, benighted state who people say they really like. How could we not? His office spends its days suing fake breast cancer charities and companies who cheat members of the military.

So we are confident he will be a great governor. Because of the suing thing.

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