It’s not quite the story yet, but expect to read a story or two in the future that talks about the perils of being the party in power during tough domestic times.  In times like this, the GOP’s policy instincts are usually more sound than the Democrats who love to spend their way out of a hole.  From the Daily News:

Gov. Paterson and his fellow Democrats are confirming everyone’s worst fears about Albany becoming a one-party town. Instead of demonstrating that they can be fiscally responsible in a crisis, they are acting just like stereotypical, out-of-control, big-government liberals.

They’re using their newfound dominance of state government to tax and spend with abandon, shaft the middle class, let criminals out of jail and cozy up to labor.

Republicans – shut out of the inner circle for the first time since the 1930s – can do little but gnash their teeth on the sidelines. Inside, though, they’re chuckling diabolically. They know just how much political dynamite the Democrats are handing them by passing this ridiculously bloated, irresponsible budget.

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