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If you can't trust a girlfriend-beating, on-the-take, turncoat Democratic politician, who can you trust?

Maybe Andrew "I stole 56 billion dollars" Cuomo should threaten to investigate somebody about something.

[mrsixpack36]

lesson: never trust a party switcher. They have no loyalty and will set out pretty easy. I def. don't want one as president.

[Zeppelin]

“Make me team captain or I’m taking my ball and going home!”

That’s how I read it.

What a d**che.

[Turbo Pig]

On a related note, Bronx state Sen. Pedro Espada, announced that he was a “political whore”. The NY state Democratic party accepted this announcement with open arms.

[AuH2ORepublican]

” Espada said, “Unfortunately, Dean rejected an opportunity to reach a compromise under which Republicans would have had equal access to all the resources of the Senate.”

Espada said the “compromise” would have kept him as Senate president and made Democratic Sen. Carl Kruger of Brooklyn the Senate majority leader, with Skelos “able to have whatever other title he would have liked.” “

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I have to tell you, IMHO, if Skelos was willing to make a deal with scumbags such as Espada and Monserrate, it’s silly for him to nix a deal with Espada and Kruger (the latter of whom opposes same-sex marriage) that would have kept the GOP in partial control of the agenda. I just hope that Espada returning control to the Democrats doesn’t result in the same-sex marriage bill getting to the floor.

We definitely need the GOP to pick up one or two state Senate seats in 2010 so that we have a seat in the table during post-2010-Census redistricting, or it will be an absolute bloodbath for the party in 2012.

[swheats]

This guy has flipped so much does his handshake matter?

[Iron Munro]

Good Grief!!!

[eleni121]

what a circus-—the piggies are in full control of this parastate.

[drjimmy]

The GOP may be Espada’s soulmates, but he’s going to try his hardest to fall back in love with the Dems.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Gotta admire someone who always stands by their strong convictions.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

Here we go again... We’ll see how long it lasts.

[SuziQ]

Hmmm. Was this ‘defection’ a put-up job all along? What was the reason behind it?

[a fool in paradise]

What was his price?

[CharlesWayneCT]

This is the same Espada that the Democrats attacked a couple of weeks ago as a criminal who should be thrown out of the Senate.

[hattend]

Okay, the Dems are high fiving, the Senator got his gig, the Pubbies got screwed again.

Any reporter think of asking the constituency, aka “The People” how they feel?

Guess it doesn’t matter, does it?

[RichInOC]

[cue “Entrance of the Gladiators”, aka “Thunder and Blazes”, aka “Oh, yeah, that circus march!”]

[meadsjn]

An honest politician is one who stays bought.

[mewzilla]

Guess the check cleared.

BTW, NYS GOP is an acronymic oxymoron.

[Munz]

so screwed up, and this is a government that wants to make decisions for us!