NYS Senator Flips Back to Democrats

They can have him.

Could there be cracks in the Albany coup? A judge is expected to issue a ruling Monday on just who's in charge up in Albany. But there's word that a key player in the chaotic political power struggle may be changing his mind, again.

It would be a flip-flip of monstrous proportions.

Renegade Democratic New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who just last week turned his back on his own party to help Republicans seize power, is apparently changing his mind once again.

That "about face", according to the Daily News, would effectively create a 31-31 deadlock in the Senate. And further adding to the drama, a New York State Supreme Court Judge could declare this afternoon whether the Republican takeover is legal.

As far as I'm concerned, there shouldn't be any room in the GOP for men who bash their girlfriends in the head with a beer bottle.

Apparently the Democrats have no problems with criminals in the midst. They even brought out the heavy-hitters to twist some arms, apparently.

Monserrate told me he made the decision to switch back after a string of meetings he held all day Sunday with key Democrats, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, Gov. Paterson, Sampson and Brooklyn state Sen. Eric Adams.

Meanwhile, the body count rises, as Democrats have fired their floor counsel after he was rolled last week and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver threatens to take his ball and go home if the kids don't start playing nice.

Just another day in the nation's most dysfunctional political body.