Okay, those in the Lege who weren’t completely blaming him before, are now. I can understand a certain level of frustration in the Governor’s office given he introduced a fairly dramatic plan that did a lot of things he had been accused of ignoring and then getting pounded by everyone. I think he was gaining some momentum before I ended up taking an unplanned blog break, but that was all lost and this sort of thing is going to prolong the problem, not solve it.
Dan has a decent take on the how the caucuses operate and I think it’s important to note how he describes Madigan and the other caucus heads. They do have a lot of power, but they also have it partially because they listen to their members and their members’ concerns. They are far from innocent in creating this fiasco–well, actually the Republicans are since they didn’t have any say until overtime.
On substance, The Governor has some decent points. However, when he screws with people like this, he loses any power to leverage those decent points.
He loses all respectability with attacks like this one on Fritchey, Harris, and Feigenholtz.
Now, who does that remind you of? Gee, an executive leader who refuses to talk with those he needs to resolve something with unless all of his conditions are met first.
