It does seem difficult to do the job when most the workers have left the job site.
Tom McClintock: How can GOP work alone on budget?
By Tom McClintock -
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, August 16, 2007
This is not the first time the California Legislature has reached an impasse in its budget negotiations. In past years the state has gone until early September without a budget agreement.
But whenever the budget has snagged in the past, legislators kept working to resolve it. This is the first time in California's history that they simply walked off the job.
Before Senate Democrats unilaterally left on summer holiday, Senate Republicans tried to continue the session to resolve our differences and to appropriate $10 billion so that the state could continue to pay its bills. Both motions were killed on straight party-line votes.
