How dysfunctional and combative is the Senate?
“You couldn’t get two-thirds of them to agree on what was even if there was only one clock in the room,’’ E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center, a conservative think tank, opined today on Talk-1300 radio in Albany this morning.
Republicans and Democrats have been remarkably consistent in voting along party lines all year on controversial issues, since the Dems took a 32-30 majority in last year’s elections.