| Yeah, even I got kind of tired of blogging our State Senate's non-performance, and wandered off this weekend for brush-cutting instead of watching the Internet. Albany Citizen 1, who has more patience and a better location than I do, reports on the not-really-sessions with an appropriate amount of derision. I've also wondered:
gop is in the chamber... seems entering in second place every day makes them the minority.
I doubt the Republicans see it that way, though, and they certainly aren't telling it that way. There doesn't seem to be any progress in negotiations, except maybe that the Governor met with Senate Democrats. But basically, nothing happened:
Gavel in, gavel out. Repeat. Gavel in, gavel out. Repeat. Gavel in, gavel out. Repeat.
Probably the most important piece I've seen on all of this is a warning that we Democrats will have to take responsibility soon as gerrymandering stops working for the Republicans. (The Brennan Center points out why the title "Majority Leader" matters for gerrymandering.)
Those demographics are precisely why I've not been terrified about this coup - and indeed see this as an opportunity to get our house in order before the inevitable arrogance of a large majority combined with New York's dead (or perhapss just sleeping?) state politics grassroots turns the Senate into the Assembly, redux.
We'll see. |
