DMI Blog
Cross-posted from Tort Deform: The Civil Justice Defense Blog
Throughout his resoundingly successful campaign to become New York’s next Governor, Elliot Spitzer had often promised – cautioned, warned – that his election would usher in a new era of competent populism, with and end to the old “business as usual”, beginning right away. “Everything changes on Day One” he was fond of saying.
Human inertia being what it is, one wonders just how wise it is to stop on a dime, even if it is done so as to charge off in a better direction. There is something to be said for graduality – even in government: even now. But there are some things that have waited far too long for change, and some of them are far too important to far too many people. Perhaps Governor Spitzer might want to consider as “Job 1” a state system that has long been in need reform: a place where inertia has paradoxically kept things from moving forward into the 20th century, much less the 21st.
