Budget Monster Heading Doyle's Way

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The WMC has succeeded in stopping the Wisconsin state budget. If you recall, it was only a few weeks ago when the special interest group was given access to the state legislature to present their position against Healthy Wisconsin. They got their wish but they want more.

In Wisconsin, state Republicans don’t fall too far from the borrow-and-spend budget tree their brethren in past GOP Congresses grew from. It is beginning to appear that Wisconsin republicans, threatened by the pay-as-you-go balancing democrats are hellbent on either shutting down the state or producing a budget that guarantees another deficit. Whatever they think they’re doing, I hope they keep doing it. I couldn't write the script any better for them.

Examiner.com Excerpt:
Doyle said Friday that approach would transform the Legislature into the U.S. Congress, lurching from one financial crisis to the next. He also said Republicans have not shown where they'd get that $4.8 billion.

The Republicans agree in principle (minus Healthy Wisconsin) to nearly the same amount of spending the democrats asked for but cannot figure out where they're getting the money from? And they're blaming Democrats? It doesn’t make sense. But hey fellas, instead of collecting the money in taxes to pay the bills, hold some craft and bake sales every day. That ought to satisfy the WMC. Fight tooth and nail against the tax on Big Oil profits too, we can all relate to that.

The late budget already looks deliberate if not a desperate political ploy by the Republicans to slow down or hold back state Democrats recent bump in popularity. That's obvious.

Sending the Governor another flatlining budget monster requiring a surgical veto knife to balance won't work either. Been there, done that, and besides you've already gone to that well too often. I can’t wait for the 2008 elections.