Robert Harding notes that the idea of giving Carl Kruger, Ruben Diaz and Pedro Espada the full extent of what they want for the leadership deal may not be too popular with the rest of the Democratic Senators. Unpopular enough to fail a vote, in fact.

Over the course of this year, myself and Phil Anderson probably went to twenty fundraisers for the DSCC. The people there were always the same: Malcolm Smith, Diane Savino, Liz Krueger, Jeff Klein, Tom Duane. Diaz, Kruger and Espada had better things to do, apparently.

Now, follow me here just for a moment (and a note to the Gatemouthishly limited: what follows is speculation). If you've ever met, for example, Jeff Klein, do you really think he's excited about the idea of voting for Pedro Espada as Majority Leader, a job Klein was rumored to want for himself? After Klein worked his tail off, and Espada, to be charitable, rested on his primary laurels?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that no, Klein isn't excited. And who could blame him?