Wow, WI is on the top 10 endangered states list for looming fiscal disaster.

[Jackpine Radical]

No wonder Doyle is bailing. Seems to me that running for Goobernator is a little like trying to swim out to the Titanic.

[elocs]

1. Like Thompson, Doyle knows when to get out of Dodge.

Good riddance.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Amen to that.

I'll kinda miss him.

Like I'd miss woodticks if they went extinct.

[Sabien]

3. yep

This, combined with the prospect of a tool like Scott Walker or Mark Neumann becoming governor makes me a wee bit skittish about the next 10 years or so.

[glinda]

4. Pawlenty did that. Plus he knew he would not get re-elected. They know....

[midnight]

5. Jackpine it seems to me that Gov. Doyle took over a state that was bankrupted or near bankrupt

by the Thompson administration. Thompson emptied the coffers to get re-elected the last time around. Then the Thompson appointed state workers were left behind that hindered the work of the Doyle administration well into the new gov. first administration. What do you think of those two issues?

[Jackpine Radical]

6. You're absolutely right. Tommy, & then Gollum…

excuse me, McCallum…had driven the state into the hole, among their many other sins while in power. The Republicans even blew the tobacco $$ in a one-time budget balancing deal. As I said at the time, it will take us generations to undo the harm Tommy did to this state.

I'm not really blaming Doyle for our current situation. I would even give him major credit for restoring some fiscal balance to the budget, even though I disagreed with exactly how he went about doing it. I admit to being unenthusiastic about him in general, and I think we're handling things poorly in many ways (i.e. not progressively enough). This is the state that gave the nation a whole lot of progressive innovations in the 20's and 30's. Now all we can come up with is unpaid holidays for state workers and cuts to local government that will intensify the hardship of the poor, including the newly poor.

[midnight]

7. Well I must agree with not enough progressive moves, and unpaid holiday should

continue to be pumped into this very sluggish economy. But I'm glad that health care for poor children has been protected by this Gov. It show where his heart is.