Derek Slap, communications minister for Senate Democrats is metaphorically standing before the Blogster’s meager work station in the Capitol Press Room, pointing fingers as if that intense study of Linda McMahon ads had merged with all the WWE Smackdowns he has recorded over the years. He’s pumping his abs and showing off his weight-lifting blisters, reminding the Blogster that a month ago, two months ago, 23 weeks ago, the Blogster predicted that the legislative deadline would come and go without a budget adjustment.
Well, we’re an hour and 5 minutes of the Blogster being right, as the House debates the dubious virtues of increasing spending next year by $73 million over the budget passed last year. All we need is the Senate to ignore a few bills of interest to the House Republicans and maybe House Minority Leader Larry Cafero will filibuster the budget deal cut by Gov. Rell, a fellow Republican, and majority Democrats, into the sweet oblivion of the midnight deadline.
Either way, the raging Slap asked the oracles in the Legislative Library to research into the last time the General Assembly voted a budget deal on time: 2006.
Wait, the Blogster has a reprieve from admitting he was wrong. Senate Majority Leader Marty Looney, D-New Haven, just called the Senate into special session, starting at midnight and stretching to November 3, in order to make changes to the Citizens Electrion Program, which lawmakers could…just…not…agree upon this session as they waited for the U.S. Ssecond Circuit to rule on its landmark 2005 law like poker players praying for the jack of hearts to fill an inside political straight.