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June 09, 2009

If They Can't Get Elected To It, They'll Steal It On The Senate Floor:

This just in from the Empire State: two Democrats go Republican and hand the chamber back to the R's:

Two Democratic New York Senators, Pedro Espada (Bronx) and Hiram Monserrate (Queens), announced this afternoon at roughly 3 PM that they were switching parties, restoring the republican majority that Democrats defeated in the last election.

Wonder how that's going to play in the boroughs. My reading of that DKos diary article and this posting and the New York political blog The Albany Project hints distinctly of the personal-agenda-based backstab, so, no big surprise there.

Now, you may point out that it's unfair of me to characterize Republicans as unfair when I wasn't too bothered about Arlen Specter swapping parties on the national level.

I would point out that I'm a liberal, a Democrat, and I'm biased. Please try to keep up, yes?

Posted by The Chinuk at June 9, 2009 05:50 AM