Senate rejects TABOR 21-11
Steve Walters of the Journal Sentinel writes through his tears that there has been progress on the issue and all but says TABOR will rise again. You can almost hear him gnashing his teeth. He even totes up the spending, just to give the idea a little push:
By Steven Walters
Spending constitutional amendment dies
Madison - A three-year push in the Legislature to amend the Wisconsin Constitution to control government spending died in the Capitol tonight.
On a 19-13 vote, the Senate killed a constitutional amendment that would have tied state spending to inflation and population growth - the latest of about 10 proposals floated the past week by Republicans, who control the Legislature. The Senate also discarded a similar amendment passed by the Assembly, 50-48, last week. [The vote on the Assembly version was 21-11 with Brown, Cowles, Harsdorf, Kepanke, Olsen, Roessler, Lasee and Ellis joining all Democrats in voting no. -- Xoff.]
Plans to limit government spending have made slow progress in the Capitol, however. The Assembly and Senate votes were the first time the full Legislature seriously considered constitutional limits on about $42 billion a year in government spending - $20 billion by state government and $22 billion by local governments.
posted by xoff @ 9:16 PM
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Well here it is, Friday morning…sun came up as usual; birds are singing and the mother-in-law of the Bride of TABOR is as dead as a doornail. Sorry Charlie (Sykes). Too bad you couldn’t intimidate more of what you refer to as “Rhinos” with your self-anointed pontification. Republican Senators Brown, Cowles, Harsdorf, Kepanke, Olsen, Roessler, Lasee and Ellis all deserve the deep appreciation of clear thinking citizens of this state for their courage to stand up to the nonsense being hurled about by the functionally and fiscally inept likes of Stepp, Lazich and Grothman.
Reading the comments of the likes of WMC, Johnny (On)Gard, Mike Huebsch who have declared this to be some sort of “great victory” one needs to look at the meaning of a “pyrrrhic victory”, which is, as you know, a victory which comes at heavy cost to the victor. The phrase is a reference to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who defeated the Romans at Heraclea and Asculum in 279 BC, but suffered severe and irreplaceable casualties in the process, going on to eventually lose the Pyrrhic War. In this case, the fat lady has sung.
If the United States had enjoyed more victories like this one in WW II, we’d all be singing “Deutschland Uber Allis” before the Brewers games, although I suspect some might prefer that toe-tapping ditty to our own anthem, whether it’s in English or Spanish.
Now let’s all go out and enjoy our well deserved summer vacation and get ready to be serenaded by the folks who have tortured us with this “let the people speak” nonsense only when it suited their crass self-interest. While ethics and campaign withered on the vine; while one by one their colleagues were convicted of being scumbags; while they rewrote their legislative calendar so that they could cash-in on campaign contributions; they thought you weren’t paying any attention.
In November we’ll find out if they were right or wrong. That’s when the people really get to decide. Don’t let them forget what they stand for…and against.
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