FLASHPOINT for Mar 28, 2007

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 | 7:09 a.m.

Love that report this week in the wrapping paper for the Sun that revealed a new study showing the governor's budget blows through the limits set by Bob Beers' Tax and Spending Control initiative. I should needle Beers for defending the governor and blaming the budget, with Jim Gibbons' name on it, on Kenny Guinn. That's just too easy. This epitomizes the problem Gibbons has now - he can't even please the right-wingers who make up his 29 percent approval rating. His chief of staff's use of the word "comfortable" to describe the governor's feeling about the spending won't help matters. Gibbons opposed TASC in the campaign but said he agreed with the principles. So he was for the spirit of TASC before his budget was against it.

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