In attempt to become relevant players and lure some SW CT lawmakers who fear voting for higher taxes, House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday will trot out their no-new-taxes, big-spending-cuts budget. The Blogster anticipates a variation on the theme of their recent years, in which Republican governors, rather than a Democrat, ignored republican lawmakers and cut deals with majority Democrats. But until Gov. Dannel Malloy gets a deal with 43,000 unionized state workers, one budget proposal is as viable as the next.