I agree with your comment. However also IMO the Governor still is in a very strong position here. Let Donovan and his super majority serve up a budget long on tax increases, and short on spending cuts. I hope Rell has the common sense to veto it, “veto proof” super majority or not.

Make Donovan then get his super majority (if he even can) to over ride her veto, and without her signature force another bad budget from the General Assembly down the throats of the hard working, over taxed, people of this state. At that point Donovan has no choice but to accept responsibility for the harm he then adds. Of course at that point he also has the chance to accept he can be part of the solution rather than an on going part of the problem.

Frankly if I were him and playing the blame game like it appears he is doing I would worry more that she forces me at this critical point to put my name to the budget I give her, then her foolishly again signing hers to another, like so many other bad ones, that got us to this point.

Differing ideaologies nothwithstanding, the fact is the current Democratic legislature has more power than anyone, including the Gov., to fix the current budget crisis. A crisis that they have played a major role in, it should be noted.

Major role? They created the entire problem! Sure, there’s a national recession going on, we all realize that, but they failed to do anything last spring when they could see the headlight of the train. Now we’re going to get crushed on the tracks and they are saying “hey… we better do something… I don’t know what though. Hey Obama! A little help please?”

With Donovan at the helm, and Merril groping for two cogent thoughts on the subject, Connecticut taxpayers had better get their feet in the stirrups and be ready to be on the receiving end of a fiscal speculum.

Differing ideaologies nothwithstanding, the fact is the current Democratic legislature has more power than anyone, including the Gov., to fix the current budget crisis. A crisis that they have played a major role in, it should be noted.

It seems these days he is busy pointing fingers at everyone else for the fiscal mess he has played a key role in helping create.

Donovan has long wanted a “millionaires” tax. With the Democratic super majority I would be shocked not to see one passed this secession. Of course since the real problem is runaway wasteful spending, the state’s fiscal situation will only further worsen. At which point he being both clueless, as well as blameless in all this, will tell us that the reason the “millionaires” tax failed to fix this mess was because the private sector failed to produce enough millionaires.

In six months we will be looking at the Amann tenure as the good old days.

Have you MET them? Even with increased majorities, I’d be shocked if they could pass a budget with a veto-proof majority.

True! It would be like trying to herd cats. Legless, retarded cats.

The simple reality is that Donovan and his collegagues in the legislature can pass any budget they want and override a veto if need be. It is squarely on the Democratic majority’s shoulders. God help us all.

Have you MET them? Even with increased majorities, I’d be shocked if they could pass a budget with a veto-proof majority.

Donovan recognizes we are in a massive deficit but wants to implement a state-run healthcare plan that will cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

Next, he blames the governor when in fact it was the Democratic Majority’s “do nothing” approach to the budget deficit all last spring that has gotten us in the severe level of red we currently enjoy.

Donovan has no plan to handle the deficit apart from wishing really hard for Obama to save the state.

Alas! May we all look the sky on January 20th, and see Obama flying over the state capitol in his winged golden charriot tossing bags of bailout cash to citizens in need!

This is our leadership? We are in deep shit, folks. Anyone want to guess when they announce the tax increase we will all get? February? March?

Speaker Elect Donovan stated that the Democratic Majority had passed a budgetary plan twice that was vetoed by Governor Rell and that if those budgets had been passed, the state would be in a better position today.

I assume that Donovan was short on details as to how he reached this conclusion.
Afraid I have to agree with your Editorial Comment.