If anyone out there still remembers the great Johnny Carson’s (host of NBC’s The Tonight Show pre-Jay Leno) fortune-telling character Carnac the Magnificent, read on. For those who do not, take a quick detour to watch this video, and return with your cultural intelligence improved.

Now…

Imagine the sounds of a number 10 envelope being opened, blown into, and an index card being pulled from within. The Magnificent Carnac touches the note card to his turban and reads aloud:

Walt Disney’s cryogenically-frozen body, Lindsey Lohan’s acting career, and Washington state’s Initiative 960 tax restraint law.

What are three things placed in suspended animation that have the same chance of being revived as Tiger Woods if he fainted at a conference of the National Organization of Women.

Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., Washington governor Christine Gregoire will sign Senate Bill 6130 that put on ice the voter-approved I-960 that would have forced a two-thirds vote in the Legislature on all tax increase measures. SB 6130 postpones enactment of I-960 until July of 2011, just enough time to do a little free-wheeling tax raisin’ and for Democrats to figure out how to legally kill off the spending restraint law while it sleeps, like a vampire story in reverse.

According to sources in Olympia, the signing will take place in the governor’s private conference room.

Gov. Gregoire still has the power to veto sections of the bill and Sens. Mike Hewitt and Joe Zarelli delivered a letter to her on Monday requesting that she strike the repeal of non-binding public advisory votes on tax increases. Cross your fingers but the reality is that the request hasn’t a meatball’s chance in Michael Moore’s lunchbox.

For those who have the stomach, read the full text of the legislation Gregoire will sign into law. If that doesn’t floor you, the Washington Policy Center plans to publish the I-960 public disclosure that would have been printed in the voters’ pamphlet for this year’s general election.

Remember SB 6130 on Election Day 2010.

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