We knew this was coming.

In his State of the State address Governor Cuomo used powerpoint to once again poke fun at Speaker Silver and Dean Skelos (and also Senator Jeff Klein now that he is co-president pro temp).

This has become a staple of his speech. Two years ago in 2011 Cuomo described how Albany has operated in the past by putting himself, Skelos, and Silver on separate battleships and quipped that the plane dropping bombs on him were the special interests.

Then in 2012, Cuomo praised the deal he struck with lawmakers to lower tax rates to the lowest levels in more than 50 years, remarking that he was just “a tinkle in his father’s eye” when taxes were lower. And then putting on screen photoshopped pictures of Dean Skelos at age 4 and Sheldon Silver at age 8, holding hands in a bipartisan manner.

This year’s powerpoint joke focused around the Governor’s announcement that the state would host a white water rafting competition called the Adirondack Challenge. Cuomo then suggested that there would be a competition between himself and his fellow legislative leaders. The Governor put Sen. Skelos and Sen. Klein in the same boat, with the two of them paddling in opposite directions. He then gave his own raft a motor – suggesting that the state police insisted he needed a motor to better respond to all of New York’s disasters.

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