All my life it's always been the Republicans blaming the downstate Democrats and vice versa. The naive expectation that somehow Eliot Spitzer could walk into Albany and transform politics as usual makes me happy that the 5200 signatures we collected last summer for the LPNY effort was not as futile as the current regimes are making it. Even after plundering the taxpayers of 120+ billion dollars, they're still bickering about stuff. 
Didn't everybody get what they wanted ? Who got left behind ? Helicopters, police details and all types of chicanery are the talk of the town. Nobody that I come across cares or is even paying attention. I'm always embarrassed to be from NY wherever I go. Between Hillary & Chuck and any other typical pol, people in Texas & California are amazed at us and happy they're not here.
When we were collecting signatures last summer during the 'Last Stand' parade in Stillwater, Uncle Joe came prancing down the street on a white horse, with a red shirt and a cowboy hat. I was impressed a 70+ year old coot could even manage it. Now we hear about the constant threat to his life and a tail the great Eliot may have put on him. Yawn. Go away.
The whole rich kid who went to Harvard Law and had his daddy finance his campaigns never impressed me either. Chiding elites and progressives (a few newspapers and bloggers too) think he's the best thing since sliced bread. I always fail to see why. He's really a better thug than a politician. Wake up folks. Throw the bums out.