"Democrats put Republicans on the spot by forcing a vote on a plan floated by Senate GOP leader Mike Bishop earlier in the week. It would balance the 2007-08 budget entirely with spending cuts.

The plan failed unanimously, with GOP lawmakers shouting furiously at Dillon for cutting off debate."

Was there going to be ONE Democrat voting to support that today?  One?  If the Dems had put up the five votes needed then you'd have something to criticize.  

Man alive the pro-tax-hikers are grasping at straws right now.

House Dems can't get 14 of their own members to support a $1.2 BILLION tax hike and the GOP is standing strong and united in defense of taxpayers.  

I can't help but notice, too, that there's been no call by liberal activists and bloggers across the state to contact those fourteen Dem turncoats to tell them to support tax hikes.  

What's wrong?  Losing your stomach for the fight?  Don't want your members voting to defend their tax-hike values?

No bloggers calling out the liberal watchdogs on the 14 Democrat "abstainers"?

More Democrat fraud here.  NoviDemocrat can whine and moan about how evil Republicans are... but can't seem to write a single post on Liberal Lucy's or Commie Guru's blog to "call your representative" and "support your tax hikes now!"?

So what happens when the Speaker gives the opportunity for House Republicans to put up or shut up? What happens when he gives them the opportunity to vote for $1.7 billion in cuts, the list of cuts created by Senate Majority Leader Bishop, the list of cuts you all said we had to make to save Michigan? They voted "NO". Every last one of them.

Confronted with the truth, that your gutless wonders in the House aren't willing to vote for their own list, the list of cuts that you all have been banging the drum to get enacted? Silence.

It must be frustrating to watch your beloved tax-hike caucus flop around like fish out of water unable to get a full fifth of them to even vote.

Now take a good long look in the mirror, Novi.  When the Dems had their chance to vote on "new revenues" they've refused to even vote!

The Dem caucus is an unmitigated disaester right now.  

You know that the $1.7 billion "cuts" package you spoke about Dillon "offering" wasn't an offer - it was a stunt based on a lie.  The lie is that it was "Bishop's cut's".  The "cuts package" was a strawman invented by Dillon with what he thought were the worst possible cuts he could imagine out of the blue, mixed in with a few Bishop cuts.  It's a strawman.

He wants to play "tag the Republican".  He can play that game on MichiganLibel with his Chairman Mao Brewer talking points.  

The only thing he has is an article that says they voted against a bill to narrow the 1.7 billion deficit.  That Democrats voted against.  And doesn't say what was included.  Must've been some heavy school and union cuts to make Democrats vote no, too.

Perhaps that's true. I haven't see the details on the proposal. But so what?

Whether or not you get bumped is Nick's call. Right now, he's got more pressing matters to attend to than being on troll-patrol.

My $0.02 on the issue is to keep you around. The reason for this is two-fold.

First, it forces us to re-examine our positions on issues. A little introspection time and again isn't necessarly a bad thing.

Second, it also gives us a heads-up on the democrats speaking points that invariably come up after I see you post here.

It's one thing when there were cuts that were proposed on one side of the aisle. It's totally another when someone changes the list and then acts as if there's nothing new.

Every hear of the phrase: "Work smarter, not harder"?