Getting back to the very well-connected Dem lobbyist I referenced above, je comes into said restaurant today, and another big Dem I know and am friends with yells out to him, “Hey, Steve–have you changed to the Republicans yet?” Ten to twelve of us at the bar laughed our heads off. Said Dem lobbyist had to fight off the urge to flip us all the bird at that point.

The ancient Asian curse is appropriate here–”May you live in interesting times.”

That being said, if this means that even some of the bad agenda that was being pushed by the NY Dems fails, well half a cake is better than no cake.

When there are folks in Albany talking about forcing gun owners to “voluntarilty” turn their firearms in to the state troopers or face criminal charges and gun confiscation, things start getting really scary.

As much as I hate the tax and spend mentality in NY, its my view that economic stuff can eventually get worked out to bring about a resurgence of prosperity for a state.

Outlawing certain types of guns, forcing gun owners to turn in their weapons backed up by police powers to confiscate firearms and arrest gun owners… man that could get REALLY ugly.

That’s one reason I was not really all that saddened when they lost control of the Senate in the first place. I rather liked the chance to run as the outsider in 2010 – with all the trouble the state is dealing with this cycle. Now it seems they’ll ‘own’ some share of the credit/blame. I hope they take this opportunity to stand for smaller, more effective government. I fear they’ll sign on to a bad deal.

The Dems trying to take their ball and go home, while the Rs consolidate their power in the dark, heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGdsKid0f6E&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flibertyboy%2Ewordpress%2Ecom%2F2009%2F06%2F08%2Frevolution%2Din%2Dalbany%2F&feature=player_embedded

I don’t know where this Repub senator got the cajones, but I wish some of our US Repub senators would go to the mat like this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGdsKid0f6E&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flibertyboy%2Ewordpress%2Ecom%2F2009%2F06%2F08%2Frevolution%2Din%2Dalbany%2F&feature=player_embedded

I don’t know where this Repub senator got the cajones, but I wish some of our US Repub senators would go to the mat like this!

I’d really like to know how the Dems think they are going to stop this. They tried to adjourn the senate without a majority vote, failed to follow through with a roll call, and stormed out like children. Now they are threatening not to reconvene until the Repubs give up their newly consolidated leadership, and they’re going to take this to court?

What are they going to do next, start arresting NY Republican senators?

There is no way that the Dems can stop the Rs from forming a new majority if they have the votes to do so. Even if the vote today was out of order or whatever, at some point the Rs will just bring it to the floor again, and a 32 to 30 majority is going to mean the Ds are out of power in the NY senate any way you slice it.

Who knows, maybe if the Dems get really crazy on this, a couple of the other Dem senators will flip to R as well. Given the fact that the Dem leadership broke their agreement not to bring gay marriage up for a vote this session, anything is possible I guess.

I would really, REALLY like to see the Dems try to keep this R take over from happening. The Rs have a clear 2 vote majority on this, and I don’t see how this isn’t going to go badly for the Ds if they try and usurp the chamber without a clear majority in their favor.

I hope people are finally waking up and hope this trend continues!!!

Save it for someone who’s stupid enough to buy your side’s hypocrisy – no one on this side of The Ditch has time for this kind of trolling nonsense…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/nyregion/09switch.html

Mr. Espada has been fined tens of thousands of dollars over the years for flouting state law requiring disclosure of his campaign contributions.

Mr. Monserrate was indicted in March on charges that he stabbed his companion late last year with a drinking glass, leaving a gash that required 20 stitches to close.

First let me make something clear. I don’t like these guys that jumped ship from the Dems to give the GOP control of the NY Senate. One of them is charged with brutally assaulting his girl friend, for goodness sake! Not really the kind of guy I want in the GOP at any level (local, state, or Fed).

That being said, this IS a major coup

Understand that the Dem controlled branches of the NY state government were trying to ram all kinds of things through the Senate. Major gun control legislation (part of which would have forced New Yorkers to either turn in some of their guns or face criminal charges and confiscation of their weapons), all sorts of tax increases, tons of new fees and fee increases on all sorts of state licenses, legalization of gay marriage, and so on. The list goes on and on, but I don’t have time right now to link to any of it.

This doesn’t mean that NY is suddenly a red state, but I think some of this crap is going to be taken off the legislative plate for the foreseeable future,

Let me put it this way. Some of this stuff the NY Dems have been talking about passing in Albany have been making my wife and I to seriously consider pulling up stakes and leaving NY for somewhere in the south (Texas maybe). We’ll probably still leave NY, but this will probably give us some more time to settle our affairs and make the move without having to take my guns to relatives out-of-state.

Where I work in Albany, there’s a restaurant not 100 yards from me that is frequented by a very well-connected Dem lobbyist. I’m on good terms with him, even though he knows I’m a conservative Republican. I saw him at lunch today, and if he had [i]any[/i] inkling that this was going to happen, I would have heard him say something about it. What’s that mean? The Dems had NO IDEA that this was coming.