From my Albany hero Bill Hammond in today's Daily News comes this one great paragraph:

"Too many members of the Assembly and Senate are representing the State of Denial instead of the State of New York. They believe - or pretend to believe - that Paterson is exaggerating the dire economic outlook, that his modest spending trims would needlessly harm services for the poor and the sick. Obviously, they've been breathing too much of the smoke blown by the lobbying groups who fund their campaigns."