Democrats threaten a massive hissy-fit over the budget

The RTD’s Jeff Schapiro uses his Sunday sermon to spin a tale of possibly budgetary doom in River City. He begins by regaling us with the Governor’s chastisement of Senate Republican leader Tommy Norment, but quickly moves on to the darker threat on the horizon…a Democratic hissy-fit:

…they’re threatening impasse on the budget, perhaps as early as Thursday, when the Senate is scheduled to vote on its version of a two-year, $85 billion spending plan. It can be avoided, Democrats say, if Norment and his caucus agree to changes in committee memberships and, possibly, chairmanships.

Democrats, whose urgency on committee make-up is heightened by the gush of hard-right legislation, also are pressing McDonnell to back their demands. They’re signaling to the governor that the Virginia budget — his budget, the fiscal foundation of his legacy — could hang in the balance.

Neither Norment nor McDonnell is giving in, at least not now.

Sensing the possibility for a flood of good copy should this occur, Jeff reminds us that the last time the General Assembly couldn’t get its budgetary duties completed, in 2001, the task fell to then-Gov. Jim Gilmore…and the whole nasty episode probably did much to elevate the political fortunes of Mark Warner.

Or at least that’s the conventional wisdom. Jeff offers no context for that earlier fight — the centrality of the car tax battle, for instance, and the utter refusal of former Senate Finance committee chairman John Chichester and his fellow nabobs to play ball on the issue. But we can’t let details get in the way of a juicy narrative.

Though let’s assume Jeff’s sources are correct and that Senate Democrats would be willing to hamstring the budget over their lack of committee seats and chairmanships.

That puts their snit into context: it’s over power, not principle. And they are willing to hold their collective breath until they turn blue unless they get their way.

I would say that they need to be put in time out. But that would be treating the Democrats like two year-olds.

They have a long way to go before they rise to that level of competence.

Сейчас уже никто не берёт классический кредит, приходя в отделение банка. Это уже в далёком прошлом. Одним из главных достижений прогресса является возможность получать кредиты онлайн, что очень удобно и практично, а также выгодно кредиторам, так как теперь они могут ссудить деньги даже тем, у кого рядом нет филиала их организации, но есть интернет. http://credit-n.ru/zaymyi.html - это один из сайтов, где заёмщики могут заполнить заявку на получение кредита или микрозайма онлайн. Посетите его и оцените удобство взаимодействия с банками и мфо через сеть.