Thursday, March 3, 2011

No Glory for Responsible Governors

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- If you want to get national attention as a governor these days, don't try to be innovative about solving the problems you were elected to deal with -- in education, transportation and health care. No, if you want ink and television time, just cut and cut and cut some more.Almost no one in the national media is noticing governors who say the reasonable thing: that state budget deficits, caused largely by drops in revenue in the economic downturn, can't be solved by cuts or tax increases alone. Receive news alertsThere is nothing courageous about an ideological governor...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/03/for_governors_responsibility_equals_invisibility_109093.html

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