Gov. Daniels will give his State of the State address tonight. I’m a little bit indifferent. He’s been in office for 5 years. I don’t expect any real initiatives out of him at this point. I get the feeling that the General Assembly is sort of steering the ship at this point. Probably I just haven’t been paying attention, but my snap recollection of Gov. Daniels for the past couple of years is: 1) loads of flashy ads; 2) general campaigning against an anemic opponent; 3) nothing during the last legislative session; 4) until he raised his head at the last minute to torpedo the budget deal and force a special session (instead of just working with the budget process from the get go); 5) some friendly back & forth with the Maryland governor; and 6) here we are.
I expect the Governor to come off all somber, letting us know what deep doo-doo Indiana is in, financially, and how everything can be alleviated by the simple expedient of giving some more State workers the boot. Those that remain wil be expected to work twice as hard to cover for their canned fellows.
Real solutions are hard to come by, but NOBODY will complain about a few lazy, stupid Government employees getting the axe. A feel-good, do-nothing remedy.
I thought you read our blog. This guy is up to some very no good stuff.
http://aloyalopposition.in/2009/12/29/daniels-cannot-wait-to-fire-some-teachers/
http://aloyalopposition.in/2010/01/07/zoeller-to-pour-good-money-after-bad-daniels-using-governors-office-to-run-for-rnc-chairman/
http://aloyalopposition.in/2009/12/16/disingenuous-daniels-gutting-education/