Take It From Us: Don't Do It This Way

The CBS headline alone was enough to make me smirk: Chaos Rules The Day In The Capital District. So how is today any different than any other day since the 1940s?

Aftershocks of the New York State Senate shake up were rippling through the state capital Tuesday. With all the chaos, confusion and hard feelings, many in Albany are wondering who's in charge and what happens next?

Less than a month ago, Democrats and Republicans posed like one big happy family for their class picture, but a dramatic coup to depose Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith has left everybody in Albany wondering what's happening next, and has left an awful lot of hard feelings.

"I think it's absolutely distasteful, it was a side show," Smith spokesman Austin Shaffran said. "It was politics at the worst and its something Senate Republicans should be ashamed of."

I don't know about you, but I am very weary of "side shows" being the only national news coverage Upstate New York gets. (So it seems). Between Spitzer's "indiscretions," Paterson's "fat tax" ideas, and this latest Keystone Cop fiasco, New York is looking like an idiot! We are the Empire State! We are the virtual alarm systems for the rest of the nation! Hear the bells and whistles!

Take it from New York-- don't do it this way.