There's a song here . . . something about "Ding Dong," maybe?

TABOR is dead. Again.

At some point they'll figure it out. At least some Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate--the less wingnutty of the two Wisconsin houses-- recognize that a straightjacket like TABOR is a bad idea. There are ways to bring about both tax fairness and reduced spending without draconian measures that don't actually fix the root causes of of our ballooning budget problems. Another plus is that there now seems to be real animosity brewing between the relatively good and moderate Republicans in the Senate (up to and maybe including Mary Panzer) and the really hard-core Republican nuts in the Assembly. They've been in power too long and are starting to eat their own now, embodied in the primary challenge Panzer's facing. This is the sort of thing that's driving good-government conservatives to retire--they can't stand the partisan rancor and infighting.

I won't go into all the TABOR nonesense again now; scroll down a bit and you can find everything you need to know. But right now, do a little dance. Maybe get something from the Lollipop Guild.

And, hey, sorry I didn't get to this sooner, but I've been busy this week.