Senate Dems: It’s A Coup

I guess the Senate Dems don’t know the definition of coup – there has to be a standing leadership to be overthrown. That was the case in June 2009, that is certainly not the case now, as the leadership of the 2013-2014 session has not yet been voted on.

And every single member who is part of this coalition (whether it works or not) was elected themselves, and they answer to their particular constituencies, not the general party turnout.

Walks like a duck . . .

Yeah, you mean like voting for Simcha Felder, who before the election said he might very well conference with Republicans, or Reverend Diaz, who has commonly denounced his own party for their social votes, or for Malcolm Smith, who has been toying with a Republican bid for mayor for weeks now? or even for Jeff Klein, who ran as both a Democrat AND Republican (like Reverend Diaz has in the past?)

The voters put in power a Democratic Governor who then pushed through a new Tier IV in the middle of the night, and the man still have 60% approval ratings. Was that the “progressive” policy that you claim NY’ers want by voting Dem?

The voters want government that functions. If this years budget passes on time, the voters won’t give a rats but about whether its Dems. or Republicans in charge. Most New Yorkers can’t even name their State senator, much less actually care about which conference controls the chamber as long as it isn’t the same shit show we had back in 2009-10

Cuomo’s hardly heartbroken, his press office wrote the quotes for the press release.

A Coup by any other Name is a Coup’

A rather small point someone made about the fact that no Democratic leadership was overthrown. Idiotic. The Democratic Leadership that should have been a natural consequence of the last election, is in danger of not gaining the majority they earned at the ballot box. That’s a ‘Coup’ in real terms, and presents a bleak reality to all New Yorkers who voted Democratic this election.

Voters now have to face the fact that this ‘Coalition’ government makes it impossible for a Democratic majority to take the leadership role in the Senate. The Republicans in spite of losing seats, even with the help of redistricting, will not pay any poliitcal price comparable to losing the majority in the Senate, which they clearly lost at the ballot box and this works against voters wishes.

Voters should correctly ask, why have and election in the first place? And why support the Democratic Party in the next one, when to effect change with my vote is going to be usurped and ignored. Our vote counts for nothng to these people.

Mike Flynn ‘Middle Class Mike’