Power dynamics, meet Dr. Lasee

In Franky's oft-invoked style of posting things other people write to put one more barrier between what he says and what he says, he this time has turned to a letter from a Senator to Governor Jim Doyle about the problems in our state government. For some reason he didn't mention Lasee, but he did hate a bit on Doyle for this whole budget garbage. Apparently, according to our author whose credibility is severely in question after having been agreed with by Franky, the Governor is threatening a government shutdown if the legislature doesn't pass a budg some time soon.

Perhaps its an excerpt problem, but our protagonist's second point is kind of a doozy: "Governor, you know full well the state of Wisconsin does have a budget...." No, in fact we don't, but what I think you're trying to imply is that the republican Assembly has a budget that it wants to pass, but the dems don't want it.

Well state legislators, let me be, somehow, the first to welcome you to bipartisan politics. I'd say the analogue of the Golden Rule as applied to your new legislative dynamic is "If you don't have political capital, you can't get anything done." Things that increase political capital are, for example, passing bills the people want, making intelligent commentary on the state of Wisconsin politics, and not being a total crackpot.

So, Lasee et al., if you guys really expect to waltz into meetings with the democratic Senate and the democratic governor and tell them 'hey, we've got this sweet budget you don't like, and you should just accept it verbatim because we don't have one yet,' it'll just demonstrate to the world that you don't understand how bicameral politics work. When you have less political capital, you don't get what you want. Sorry!