From TimesUnion.com:

It’s been  nearly six months since the Senate coup, and Gov. David Paterson has done something that no other politician has managed: He has brought the Democratic and Republican Senate together. The only problem They are lined up against the governor and his proposal to turn over budget authority to him if they can’t agree on the Deficit Reduction Plan that he sent to the Legislature today.

Both dismissed Paterson’s proposal out of hand.

“If the governor wants our jobs, if he wants to run for state Senate, that’s fine,”  Democratic Majority Conference Leader John Sampson (left) said of Paterson, who was previously Senate Democratic Minority Leader.

“It’s an absolutely dangerous precedent,” agreed Republican Leader Dean Skelos (right). “Anybody who would vote for that doesn’t deserve to be in office.”

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