Dad, It's Me

New York's incoming governor did exactly what he should have ... and his dad did too.

While Spitzer burned, David Paterson called his dad. Father Basil, a former secretary of state and current legal eagle, began marshaling statewide resources and contacts as part of the transition and his son, the blind man, will be set gloriously free — no doubt for too short a honeymoon — from the prison of a lieutenant governorship.

** Dad shouldn't sit in the office, but always be ready on the other side of the phone. **