While the RW media blames the unions for NYC Snowpocalypse debacle:

[GrantDem]

Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and his flaky ideas doom New York during storm

City Hall's bungled response to the Blizzard of 2010 started at the top.

Any probe of what went wrong must first examine the key decisions Mayor Bloomberg and his new deputy mayor for operations, Stephen Goldsmith, made in the weeks and hours leading up to Sunday.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/12/30/2010-12-30_city_doomed_by_deputy_mayor__his_flaky_ideas.html#ixzz19izBLUmV

[blondeatlast]

1. "You're doing a heckuva job, Goldie!"

This time, Goldsmith was out of town and didn't even show up at the command center until Monday. A City Hall spokesman wouldn't say where he was.

"He was in regular email and phone contact with Doherty and " Bruno," mayoral spokesman Jason Post said.

The Sanitation Department has been Goldsmith's special target since he arrived in town.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/12/30/2010-12-30_city_doomed_by_deputy_mayor__his_flaky_ideas.html#ixzz19j0IS5lo

[Old and In the Way]

2. I pity the last union member standiing when the full taxcut implications are realized.

Is that poor bastard going to feel the wrath of the Right Wing wurlitizer. Because we know taxcuts have no impact on budgets. The remaining union members, as their ranks get thinned, will just keep getting slower and slower.

/sarcasm