There's an overlooked news story in the Staten Island Advance that I'd suggest is a harbinger of things to come:

A scathing report from state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo this week said top Spitzer aides plotted to smear GOP Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno by leaking information to the press about Bruno's alleged improper use of state aircraft. In the wake of the report, Spitzer suspended Darren Dopp, his longtime communications director, for 30 days without pay. William Howard, deputy secretary for security, was reassigned within state government, while Richard Baum, Spitzer's chief of staff, was not punished. While satisfied with Spitzer's initial response, Ms. Savino said that subsequent developments, including the revelation that Dopp and Baum refused to testify under oath for Cuomo's investigation, have caused her to change her mind. Failing to fire Baum, Dopp and Howard, she said, "will cripple (Spitzer's) governorship going forward." Spitzer, she said, has to "restore people's belief in him as the sheriff of Albany." "The people who voted for him last year believed that he was going to be the one who stood up to everybody that they couldn't stand up to," she said. "That's the belief he has to protect."

Diane Savino is, of course, the head of the DSCC, the organization charged with taking back the State Senate in 2008.