They can’t even agree to disagree
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How dysfunctional and combative is the Senate?
“You couldn’t get two-thirds of them to agree on what was even if there was only one clock in the room,’’ E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center, a conservative think tank, opined today on Talk-1300 radio in Albany this morning.
Republicans and Democrats have been remarkably consistent in voting along party lines all year on controversial issues, since the Dems took a 32-30 majority in last year’s elections, ending a string of Republican control that stretched back all the way to 1938, with the sole exception of 1966.
The changed control has meant more clout for Westchester, where four of the five senators are Democrats. But Rockland and Putnam, which are represented by Republicans, lost influence.
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More clout for Westchester? Seems more like being clouted than clouting. The only clout I can see is that these representatives, as with all of them throughout the State, are clouting better deals for themselves and those entities that fund them. As the Senate Majority Leader was quoted as saying to assembled lobbyists after eighteen holes: “You gotta pay to play.”