Not Your Sweetie

This is the DNC Choice to Deliver the Response to SOTU:

Angry Dems in a Locke Box
Only conservatives love the governor's no-new-taxes budget, which puts
fellow
party members in a real bind.

by George Howland Jr.

"What does Gov. Gary Locke's budget procedure, known as Priorities of
Government, or POG, spell
backward? GOP!" That's the joke circulating among Democrats as the
105-day state legislative
session opens this week in Olympia. The humor masks real anger. On Dec.
17, Locke put members
of his own party in a terrible political position by releasing a
no-new-taxes plan that would cut $2.4
billion from a $23 billion biennial budget. It is a budget so extreme
that one of Locke's own
spokespeople, Ed Penhale of the Office of Financial Management,
acknowledges that not even the
Republican-controlled Senate can stomach it. "Even [the Republicans]
couldn't pass it," admits
Penhale."

It's official, Karl Rove (Turd Blossom) runs the Democratic party.