It's official: a majority of our legislators don't trust the state auditor. How else do you explain their refusal to grant the state auditor the authority to conduct independent comprehensive performance audits of state government without having to first receive the permission of an unelected political board? Never mind the fact that the state auditor is elected by the people and is directly accountable to us; apparently this check and balance isn't comforting enough for Olympia, which fears the state auditor may run amok on an accountability power trip. And that would be a bad thing for the taxpayers? For...