Breaking: Senate Dems implode…again

Malcolm Smith is facing more friendly fire from the Dem ranks. A hodge-podge deal that seemed to cement his control over the fractious Democratic majority has evaporated.

Here’s Danny Hakim’s treatment in the NY Times:

That means that Mr. Smith, a Queens Democrat, may not become the president pro tempore of the Senate when the new legislative session begins in January. For that matter, the Senate’s new leader may not even be a Democrat.

Snatching defeat from the…ah, you know the rest.