Posted on 07/01/2003 11:32:12 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:52:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
As California begins a new fiscal year without a budget -- to the utter surprise of no one -- Democrats and Republicans are exchanging rhetorical fusillades over who is to blame and how the deficit-saturated budget can be fixed.
The verbal barrages on the floors of both legislative houses and in the media are strong indications that the stalemate over a budget will continue for weeks, if not months. The various factions -- Democrats seem to be especially fragmented -- are implying that with agreement on a new budget not likely soon, they are concentrating on shifting the political onus to others.
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