Governor Spitzer's Budget Failure

All the histrionics and posturing have brought the rookie governor no closer to cleaning up Albany as he promised. It turns out that without being about to threaten criminal indictments Mr. Spitzer is rather impotent. The trust fund baby still has his millions but at least he is in a place where he can't do any real damage. The NY Post reports on the governors failure:

Bruno, despite a shrinking majority and a criminal probe of his private business dealings, relied on his instinctive sense that Spitzer was a bully who would blink rather than fight beyond the budget deadline. And he parlayed that into a nearly $1 billion windfall for Long Island schools and his leftist allies in the totally self-centered hospital workers union.

The record-high, $123 billion budget deal neither reforms nor reshapes New York's notoriously special-interest-driven spending plan, other than at the edges.