Mario Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York who inspired liberals with his idealistic oratory and led New York into decline with crushingly high taxes to fund lavish social services, has passed away.  His death came shortly after his oldest son Andrew was inaugurated for his second term as governor. Liberals are offering up nostalgia so thick you could cut it with a knife.  For them, Mario Cuomo will always be the man who stood up to President Reagan’s conservatism at the 1984 Democratic Convention and articulated the liberal credo, trying to shame the most popular and effective president of his era because there were still poor people in the utopia he demanded.  That the poor have increased in number under President Obama and decreased in number under President Reagan meant nothing.  It’s always all about the emotions and auto-gratification of claiming the moral high ground. The favorite word to describe him seems to be “lion,” a...(Read Full Post)