Roatti's diary marks the first really-good step forward this week: Senator Squadron marks up a bill in public!
In other words, a small but significant part of our legislature is, ya know, actually acting like a legislature.
That, and despite last night's unseasonable frost, Hell has actually NOT frozen over.
Another milestone of sorts was marked this week, at least I think it was, when Governor Paterson admitted this, in connection with the bizarre and ongoing soap-opera about the ever-morphing Albany ethics watchdog org:
"The commission has been compromised and its public standing is in question," Paterson said. "The sad reality is that this issue is much larger than the Public Integrity Commission. The general perception is that the ethics process in Albany is broken, and I believe it is."
If admitting its broke is the first step to fixing it, well, I'll celebrate.
But, the whole ethics issue is a can of the wriggliest worms you ever did see. And, I gotta say, the behavior of a certain Eliot Spitzer around this issue would have to seem the wormiest, most unsavory of the lot. This guy has seriously got to go do some community service time in a soup kitchen, and work on his anger and attitude problems with a counselor, before he goes back out in public again. He's embarrassing.
If you want to puzzle this Public Integrity Commission thing out yourself, the IG posted everybody's testimony. |
