Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens), the most unifying man in the Senate, will go neither quietly nor gently into that dark night. A special Senate panel recommended that he be expelled or censured after being convicted of a misdemeanor assault. Never one for inaction, Monserrate is planning on going on the offensive, legally challenging any effort to expel him from the Senate. more ›

Okay, we give up. The whole Governor Spitzer-Senate Republican animosity thing has become totally and utterly insane. Someone left a crazy message for Spitzer's father, the wealthy (and 83-year-old) real estate developer Bernard Spitzer. And call has been traced to the apartment of a GOP adviser to State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno!

This is a message for Bernard Spitzer. You will be subpoenaed to testify in front of the Senate committee on investigation on your shady campaign loans. You will be compelled by the Senate sergeant at arms, if you resist, you will be arrested and brought to Albany - and there's not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho piece of s--- son can do about it. Bernie, your phony loans are about to catch up with you. You will be forced to tell the truth. The fact that your son is a pathological liar will be known to all.