From the Seattle Times:

DINO Rossi should be elected governor Nov. 4 because he can best be
trusted to erase the state’s huge projected deficit without raising
taxes.

Under Gov. Christine Gregoire, state government during the good years
built up a mass of programs, promises and public spending. Now the
economy is in recession, and unless taxes are to be raised on people
already struggling — a bad idea — state spending will have to be cut
about 10 percent. To do that, the people need a governor who has a
track record of budget reduction and is politically empowered to do it.
That would be Rossi.

Under fire from Rossi, Gregoire has promised a budget with no new
taxes. But will she offer a budget that is defensible, and really
defend it? How hard will she fight against her own party, which
controls the Legislature? How hard will she lean against the
public-employee unions, which now support her re-election?

Rossi doesn’t have those problems. When he says he’ll cut spending,
you can believe him, because he has done it, and because he represents
a constituency that wants it done.

I will continue to make the point that Obama is, by nature, a far left wing (big ell) Liberal, with the Liberal “spread the wealth” bent, meaning tax those that have it, to give it to those that don’t.  “Trickle Up” economics, if you will.

But when you also remember that the leadership of the House and Senate are also from the “spread the wealth” left wing of the Democrat party, then no matter how hard Obama tries to steer an even course with his eceonomic policies, he will been drawn to the left, even as warm moist air in the gulf of Mexico is drawn into a hurricane, adding to is mass and power, until it becomes an inexorable massive force for destruction for the economy.

If the Times can see that now is the time for a Conservative with a balanced budget fetish in Washington State – to balance out the “spread the wealth” Liberals in the State Legislature, why can they not also see that the same is requried in Washington DC?

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