The Sorry State of the New York GOP

New York Senate Majority Leader and de facto leader of the New York GOP, Joseph Bruno (along with George Pataki) has led the New York Republican Party down the gutter. No better evidence of this, okay maybe the fact that he is under investigation from the FBI and has been defended of all people by the head of the teacher's union, was his decision to tout Donald Trump for Governor of New York in 2006.

Donald Trump, blowhard extraordinaire and second-rate real estate mogul (although very gifted marketer and self-promoter), was on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch today. Trump, reiterating previous comments he has made said the Iraq War was a disaster and called Bush the worst President ever. See this interview with Maureen Dowd. He went further today by saying Bush should be impeached.

Of course, rather than William Weld, former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts and successful Massachusetts Governor, Bruno wanted Trump to be the GOP nominee. The only silver-lining in this was that given Trump's past investment record, if he says something is a mistake, it is probably a good idea. I suspect if the President's approval ratings turn around and the surge works, Trump will be singing a different tune:-) This is the man who claims that his casinos and everything he owns (or has over-leveraged:-)) is "the best in the world."