Spitzer's Day One

The speech talks about how he’ll set his agenda from day one.

- provide relief and transparency to New York’s tax system
- expand affordable health coverage and keeping costs down through, inter alia, Medicaid reform
- improve our schools; no more overcrowded classes and crumbling buildings
- make sure New York is the best place to do business in America & revitalize downtown Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany & Rochester.
- invest in high-tech, expand internet access
- we’re all in this together; on day one:

we realize that we’re all in this together, and that in this journey, it will not be upstate versus downstate, urban versus rural, business versus labor, Republican versus Democrat.

On day one it will be every single New Yorker – no matter what you look like, where you come from or what you believe in – working together towards a common good and a common purpose: to bring back the New York we dream of…

…it’s gonna be a pretty busy first day

(WNYMedia.net now streaming)

We have to forge ahead, dream big, and open a new frontier. De rigeur comparo made to “Clinton’s Ditch” (don’t be cute. He means the Erie Canal).

Big finish:

E.B. White once said, “New York is to the nation what the white spire is to the village – the visible symbol of aspiration and faith; the white plume saying the way is up!”

My fellow New Yorkers, today I tell you that our moment is here.

Our time is now.

Together, we will seize this opportunity to restore our state and continue our upward journey.

Cue Tom Petty.

Cue the balloons.

Cue the confetti.

Segue into BTO’s “Takin’ Care of Business“.

Seriously, aren’t there any inspirational, rouse the troops songs written in this century?