Effective Exploitative

Gushed
Call it the downside of prosperity: The Texas growth spurt has produced a near $20 billion gusher of new tax revenue, and the Republican-dominated legislature, with the support of seemingly every lobby in Austin, wants to spread the bounty. The biennial general-fund budget that awaits the Governor's signature is $102 billion compared with $84 billion two years ago. (WSJ, 6/7/2013)

RedStateVT wondered several days ago what California legislators would do with a projected budget surplus. (Yes, first it has to materialize.) Our fear is that they would squander it. And now we have Republicans - yes, Republicans - potentially doing the same thing. This is exactly why there is a Tea Party. 


Problema
People are looking for the wrong “scandal” about Attorney General Eric Holder. The problem with Holder is the plain fact that, in the judgment of a wide range of legal colleagues, he has been a mediocre attorney general. (David Ignatius, Washington Post, 6/7/2013)

When you have lost the uber-Liberals, it is pretty much game over. We see a potential Holder resignation down the road. He will wait until the scandals have all but disappeared (should not be too long as only Fox News is covering them) and then announce that he is leaving as he had planned all along.