Governor Lame Duck

With this headline "Governor looks at life outside politics," I guess its official, the Governor is a lame duck. Of course with such accomplishments as allowing Amendment 23 to be passed with almost no opposition from himself, pushing the state into fiscal crisis. His allowing the state house and senate to turn over to democratic party control, because he couldn't seem to find time to come home and campaign. And his brilliant maneuver to trick the democrats into putting a holiday from Tabor spending limits onto November's ballot, he will be a great loss to his party and the state.

In many ways, he was little different from his immediate predecessor Roy Revenuer, he always got a thrill out of collecting and spending money. I can't help but believe that somewhere in all those negotiations with the democratic leadership this past legislative session was a deal for one more spending spree on one of the Governor's pet projects.