Hope and Change?
Is it possible? Is it really possible that Gov. David Paterson may be the fiscal realist that ‘Puter’s been waiting for? ‘Puter doesn’t want to hope; he’s been burned too many times before.
It’s telling that a fiscal realist in New York is a politician who insists that the state cannot, and should not, borrow its way out of a financial crisis. It’s equally telling that the Republican Senate Majority Leader Skelos had no response, and the Democrat Assmebly Majority Leader Silver refuse to lead on the issue of where to cut. Gov. Paterson called Skelos and Silver on their refusal to lead, saying “[y]ou’re so smart, you tell me how to cut the budget.”
It would indeed be ironic if the leader of positive fiscal change in New York was a liberal Democrat machine politican from Harlem. If Gov. Paterson is serious about ushering in an era of fiscal seriousness, ‘Puter wishes him good luck. He’ll need it.
Always right, unless he isn’t, the infallible Ghettoputer F. X. Gormogons claims to be an in-law of the Volgi, although no one really believes this.
’Puter carefully follows economic and financial trends, legal affairs, and serves as the Gormogons’ financial and legal advisor. He successfully defended us against a lawsuit from a liquor distributor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid deliveries of bootleg shandies.
The Geep has an IQ so high it is untestable and attempts to measure it have resulted in dangerously unstable results as well as injuries to researchers. Coincidentally, he publishes intelligence tests as a side gig.
His sarcasm is so highly developed it borders on the psychic, and he is often able to insult a person even before meeting them. ’Puter enjoys hunting small game with 000 slugs and punt guns, correcting homilies in real time at Mass, and undermining unions. ’Puter likes to wear a hockey mask and carry an axe into public campgrounds, where he bursts into people’s tents and screams. As you might expect, he has been shot several times but remains completely undeterred.
He assures us that his obsessive fawning over news stories involving women teachers sleeping with young students is not Freudian in any way, although he admits something similar once happened to him. Uniquely, ’Puter is unable to speak, read, or write Russian, but he is able to sing it fluently.
Geep joined the order in the mid-1980s. He arrived at the Castle door with dozens of steamer trunks and an inarticulate hissing creature of astonishingly low intelligence he calls “Sleestak.” Ghettoputer appears to make his wishes known to Sleestak, although no one is sure whether this is the result of complex sign language, expert body posture reading, or simply beating Sleestak with a rubber mallet.
‘Puter suggests the Czar suck it.