-- The Times Union calls Spitzer's plan "revolutionary." The NY Post thinks Spitzer is as wild a spender as Gov. Pataki was and calls for some slashing.

-- Despite Spitzer's longtime support for assisting working families who choose to send their children to private and parochial schools, the Associated Press is nonetheless surprised that the governor's budget includes a $1,000 tuition tax break.

-- Interesting how all of the ducks have been lined up by Spitzer and his budget people. Since the health care lobby seems to be the group most upset with the governor's call for fiscal discipline, is it possible that all of the various education supporters (i.e. the school unions, the charter school backers, the mo' money crowd, etc.) will end up siding with one another to push this budget over the hump?

-- All of the steamroller stuff, including the tee-shirts, is kind of funny. But do people think this really weakens Spitzer's governance? Don't New Yorkers want a steamroller at this point, i.e. won't the public be giddy about the idea of seeing some of the legislative leaders flattened like a pancake like you see in the cartoons? By criticizing Spitzer for being bold and arrogant, aren't they falling into Spitzer's trap? How spectacular would it be if Spitzer arranged a photo-op of himself riding a steamroller over to a meeting with legislative leaders?

-- The Quick and the Ed's Kevin Carey, blogging with a tan, analyzes the options in front of the mo' money supporters in New York and elsewhere in an interesting post.