A politician that 'gets it'

From NBC/New York:

6,900 6,899 6,898... Paterson Begins a Veto Marathon
As the Senate sought to negotiate and further delay a late budget to head off 6,900 promised vetoes, Gov. David Paterson rifled through a 2-foot high stack of the Legislature's budget bills, voiding them at a rate of one every 3 seconds Thursday.

"I'm not talking to them," Paterson told reporters during a break in vetoing the Legislature's budget bills that he said the state can't afford. "They sent me a message. They sent that budget that was out of balance."

A bit more:

He said many of the programs are laudable and important, but unaffordable. His vetoes Thursday included grants to the elementary school his children attended, a service group whose board of directors includes his wife, and a group to which his mother had been a member.

So he is feeling the hurt as well -- shows moral backbone; something the State Senators severely lack. I am still amazed at how out of touch with reality these people are. They play their little power games behind locked doors, they each talk to their constituents but it's all about what part of the pie can I carve off and bring home to you; it is not about how we are spending unreasonably and here is what we need to do to cut back. And this is our supposed cultural elite class? A bunch of nattering fops...