So says Joe Turner, long-time capitol reporter for The News Tribune in Tacoma. Methinks he hit the nail square on the head. The full paragraph:

"You should see how many bills have been introduced that either spend a lot of money or give more or longer tax breaks to groups of people, all in the past two months! This is a Legislature that is in serious denial. Each lawmaker must think the cuts will come to someone else's favorite program, not his or hers."

Welcome to what I call trough government. It amounts to little more than pigs scrambling for a place at the public trough, only it ain't foodscraps they're gorging on. Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats when it comes to this, it's just that they have different "priorities" for spending your money.

"That's how democracy works," apologists often cry. Wrong. That's how democracies die.  There's an old adage: once the people learn they can vote themselves unlimited access to the public treasury, it's the beginning of the end.