Must reading in yesterday's NY Times, tells about the "Perfect Storm" story of GOP state senators' and Governor Andrew Cuomo's passage of the S.A.F.E. anti-gun bill

Or, in other words, how the GOP opposition in New York was lost at sea -- or put in Hannibal Lecter's meat locker

Yesterday's NY Times article is entitled, "Intent on Being First, Cuomo Used All Means to Enact Gun Limits" and it says that it's by  Thomas Kaplan and Danny Hakim and that it's about a landmark anti-gin bill (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/nyregion/cuomo-used-all-his-means-to-pass-gun-control-package.html?pagewanted=1&src=recg );  but in reality this is the story of a sea change that is written on the wind.

What "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger had to say about a bunch of commercial fishermen from Gloucester is the same take away as what Kaplan and Hakim had to say about the Republicans in their piece  --  with Cuomo playing the storm and what was once a "Republican Majority" in the New York State Senate playing the fishermen on the Andrea Gail.   Of course, in Kaplan's and Hakim's article the tragic end  of the hapless crew is left to the imagination ( and some GOP happy talkers will even say that it's possible that the GOP senate guys can have an ending more like the castaways on Gilligan's Island, but like everything else in the New York GOP, that's a pipe dream not a plot line).

Since, the Times' article is all about the sausage making behind a single and signal piece of legislation favored by the governor, it looks like Andrew Cuomo is quite a competent butcher and, indeed, a fine sausage maker --  so he can proudly say "Ich bin ein berlinermaker".  It's also clear that Cuomo's sausage recipe is suggestive of something  characteristic of the cuisine of a Hannibal Lecter --- there are lots of GOP body parts in it.  So the GOP guys behind Dean Skelos and Tom Libous should take heed that their "Hannibal the Cannible" antagonist is a serial killer  who probably likes his sausages to be linked, daisy-chain style.

[btw, to bad Brooklyn's own Marty Golden didn't get a mention the way Tom Libous did.  At least TL can tell people the NY Times says he's   the state senate's  "second-ranking Republican and the governor’s closest ally in the Republican caucus."]