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CapCon called this "GOP offers their bipartisan operating agreement", but I like my headline better. Unless I'm missing something obvious, these two pages boil down to "Pedro Espada and Dean Skelos are in charge. With one Democrat on board, we can still call it 'bipartisan'. Suck it up."
Maybe they're smarter than I am - time will tell how this plays with the public - but I think they've moved from a brilliant parliamentary maneuver coupled with a smart PR move to the same old stodgy "we only care about power, ever" story that they told during the Bruno years.
It's too bad. There really was an opportunity here to build a saner Senate, one with long-term prospects for a relevant Republican minority. Instead they seem to be going for broke.
I'm afraid we'll all end up broke as a result.
Hopefully they might yet recognize this isn't going to make them look good, for a long long time to come, and we can salvage some of the possibilities that briefly seemed to open.
Update: For a collection of bipartisan operating agreements in actual use elsewhere, see here.
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