Wednesday, January 11th, 2006...8:22 pm
Not Follies Yet, But Give Them Time
The first few bills have passed the House. You will all be happy to know that the legislature has made it their first priority to make sure that bills that were vetoed last session will be sent to the Governor in the same form this session, so they can get vetoed again.
These guys have noticed that it is still the same governor, right?
The bills that have already been voted on include a rerun of a voucher bill and a rather arcane act dealing with the Tourism and Sports Authority. My sources tell me that the latter bill is just an attempt to limit the Governor’s power. Yeah, she’ll be all about signing that, just like she was last year.
Another bill attempts to put some federal money into the general fund. The bill is clearly a violation of federal law, and that is why it was vetoed. Guess what: it is still a violation of federal law, and will be vetoed again.
Expect the Republicans to be shocked, shocked, when the Governor vetoes these bills again. There’s a big difference: when Captain Renault uttered those famous words, he was not believing what he said. These guys always seem to be genuinely suprised. They remind me of my mom’s old cat. That cat would sit on a table knocking stuff to the floor. Every new thing the cat would knock down, she would stare at suprised that it fell straight to the floor. Then, she’d do it again.
I’m not sure what they think they are accomplishing by doing this. Maybe they think Napolitano will mess up and sign the bill anyway.
One bit of good news: the Senate has apparently begun work on the English Language Learners bill. Maybe this time, they’ll give it to the governor in a form in which she can actually sign it. Maybe, they wont have their staff lie about what is actually in it. Hope springs eternal.
3 Comments
January 12th, 2006 at 11:50 am
the Senate has apparently begun work on the English Language Learners bill. Maybe this time, they’ll give it to the governor in a form in which she can actually sign it.
Ha! Ha! Yeah, right. I’ll hold my breath for that.
Maybe Janet will actually get money from Rumsfeld to put National Guard troops on the border. hee hee.
Maybe she’ll actually sign the corporate tuition tax credit she agreed to sign last year. LOL!!
Maybe all of them will put aside their part petty partisan differences, ignore the extremist idiot activists in their respective party machines, act like adults and work together to get things done.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
Sure. Sure. Delusions spring eternally.
January 12th, 2006 at 11:53 am
The problem with that corporate tuition tax credit was that they gave it to her in a form that they knew she wouldn’t sign. These are the sorts of games they play.
Yeah, keep saying “activists on both sides,” but remember who is actually running the legislature.
January 12th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Ah, but Ted, now they’re going to give it to her with the sunset provision she asked for and now she’s saying that she’s not going to sign it.
And it doesn’t matter who is actually running the legislature, both parties are equally guilty of playing games (Brotherton played this amendment game last session). While they play cute and try to score points with their bases, real policy decisions aren’t made, realistic and sustained reform is ignored and real Arizonans suffer.
All I ask of you is consistency, Tedski. If you ding one side for playing games, ding the other.