Random10 points out that there appears to be a serious deal-breaker, at least if anybody knows the track record of one Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) – this budget agreement has no guarantee, at least from what I’ve seen, that Doyle won’t use his veto pen to strip out items such as the latest tax “freeze” or the prohibition of the offering of in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens.
While R10 would be content with a videotape, I want it in writing, notarized, and actionable if broken.
I also want a guarantee that any additional spending or additional taxes that gets added to the budget, like the KRM monster that Kreuser is still pushing for, will get line-itemed out in toto.
Good luck with that.
DarthDoyle is a professional liar-pol. It’s public record–see the campaign tapes vs. his budget.
I agree. There is no gauarantee that this or any other budget passes without being perverted and rearranged by Doyles “Frankenstein Line Item Veto Pen”. I think that we should remain “budgetless” (meaning we operate on last years budget) and deny the governor this opportunity to totally bastardize whatever is passed in good faith.
Dad29 – It is exactly because Doyle is liar with a track record that Huebsch and Priebus need to demand Doyle sign a binding ZERO VETO AGREEMENT.
If you don’t ASK you don’t GET. By making the demand they force the Governor into one of three options.
1. Agree and he voluntarily surrenders his veto weapon.
2. Agree then renege thus providing another example of his corruption.
3. Refuse and thus provide another axample of his corruption.
The pubbies can’t make Doyle do anything, but they can force him to take public positons with political implications. The pubbies need to keep playing the game till the last possible moment.
The Republican girlie men who caved to Don Doyleone don’t have what it takes to make the request. They’ve been pussywhipped so bad, they’re emasculated.