That the Democrats would take their normal course into the court system, to try to accomplish what they cannot through legal, Constitutional means….

This situation has occurred at least twice in the last 50 years or so.

Sorry so long to reply.

I agree about the 1.8B in deferred spending. But heck, he did cut $600MM in real dollars and in programs that are leftist sacred cows. I’d trade the good folks of MN governors in a heartbeat. Ours (AZ) is trying to raise taxes and is balking at real cuts similar to Pawlenty’s.

You are absolutely right about there being a whole lot more to cut, but at least he cut something and that’s more than any other Governor has done.

Come Presidential Primary time, my question for the candidates would be “Which federal DEPARTMENT would you eliminate at the Cabinet level in your first year in office?”

Pawlenty, Jindal, Sandford, Palin, Perry, Barbour- all seem to now have this label attached to them.

What current prominent governors, besides our RINOs Crist and Governator, doesn’t the media label as grandstanders? (heh, to think these 2 get away without that title is laughable- by far the most deserving)

And I’d bet, of the 16 R governors I haven’t mentioned, with less national name recognition, the majority of their actions too are just grandstanding, right?

Can we get over this leftist talking point that whenever a Republican governor tries to control spending it is automatically grandstanding? The term is only in the news because of leftwing talking heads. Without them you wouldn’t have used that term just now.

/end rant

But then again so was Rudy. And Rudy was arguably the most conservative candidate we had in 08 (Fred! Fred! Fred!).

I’d say he has a longer track record than you do.

I agree; absolutely awesome!

and that’s my biggest problem with getting excited about it. The money is still owed to the schools because it was only deferred. It just won’t be paid out of this budget. Next year they could get twice as much or more to offset not getting it this year.

My secondary problem is that while Becker and I might agree about that part of the budget being worthy of being cut, most of the electorate disagrees with us. Therefore they are more willing to tolerate tax increases to make up the “budget shortfall” than they would be for other wasteful parts of the budget.

(like Iran) in USA who can decide who wins without any opposition. Where there is a Supreme Leader, why would anyone expect a democratic election could take place?

The congressional elections in 2010 and the state houses are one hell of a lot more important than quibbling about ’12 presidential tickets.

Not only do we need to beef up Rs in congress (hopefully with some who have a dose of testosterone), but we need to grab some state houses to deal with the coming reapportionments resulting from the ACORN census.

glad I’m not the only one remembers and reminds of it… Too bad the lefty loon bloggers weren’t right in that Bush would find a reason/excuse to declare Marshall Law before the 2006 Election, then CANCEL the Elections, to enshrine permanent Republican Rule (or, for at least as long as they would be able to get away with it)… That was there Pre-Conspiracy Theory anyway….

Despite Right-leaning Bruce Willis’ finding things he liked about the film and deciding to be involved, the film “The Siege” (c) 1998 was a lefty-loon “warning rant” of the “concerns” if Republicans were to have total control of the country. It was a good movie that I do recommend viewing for many aspects that can/do have a positive context.