2008 campaign messages taking shape

The Gregoire/Chopp tag team blame game on the state’s pension crisis is a ticking stink bomb the Governor and current Democrat controlled legislature could control and fix but have no intention of doing. Why would they purposefully neglect fixing something that could turn out to be the state’s worst financial disaster? Further why are they blaming Rossi for their recent decisions to under fund the pension accounts?

Campaign season for 2008 is not far away and it appears our socialist leaders are architecting a spending crisis that only tax increases (extend the death tax to a “near death” tax perhaps?) or through rampant spending cuts sacrificing the human shields the Democrats call children. While I don’t deem state employees to be the sharpest tools in the shed, Gregoire believes them to be total imbeciles when it comes to funding pensions. Her speaking points in 2008 will include not asking state employees to give up their windfall profits at the taxpayers expense and blaming Rossi for the current gap.

From a pre-campaign standpoint the recent series of events makes perfect sense: Why fix a funding gap when you can make the gap larger and blame your future opponent? When it comes to logic Gregoire is counting on her usual constituents to drink the anti Iraq koolaid & ignore the facts of running our own state government into the ground. It so happens that her constituents happen to be about 30-40% of the state’s voters at this point.

An aside

When Christine Gregoire took office from fellow Democrat Gary Locke, she swore not to blame Gary’s mismanagement of the annual budget for the state's financial woes. Gary gave her 2 envelopes with instructions to open the first when she made a colossal error and the second letter when she made her next blunder.

Earlier this month, when the budget surplus turned into a deficit due to runaway spending, A flustered Gregoire opened the first letter to find the following written in big black ink “Blame Rossi.” I’ve seen the contents of the second envelope. It contains a letter beginning with the following instructions:

“Go to your desk and write two letters...”