A Talent to Annoy

Governor Paterson said on Sunday's Meet the Press that he's "taken on the special interests."

Actually, what he did was to talk about doing things, such as cutting state spending, guaranteed to antagonize the main special interests in New York.

Then he caved in to those same special interests, thereby antagonizing everybody else as well.

That, we think, more than anything else is the principal cause of the Governor's unpopularity.