By moving to suspend voter-mandated tax restraints, Democrats in the Washington state Legislature sent a clear message to the people: We are the governors and you are the governed, and there is no reciprocity in that relationship.

The voter’s shield against runaway government spending by the State of Washington, Initiative 960 is perilously close to temporarily losing its most crucial piece, the requirement that the state Legislature pass a two-thirds vote for measures to increase taxes.

The Democrat majority have moved a bill through the Senate – SB 6130 – that would “shelve” the voter-approved drag chute for runaway spending — I-960 — until July 2011.

Regional transit authorities are one step closer to getting the green light from Olympia to legally pick the pockets of vehicle owners.

Perhaps SB 6853 will become to this legislative session what the Flying Dutchman is to nautical myth, a ghostly vessel doomed to sail forever and never come home. Methinks we shan’t be so lucky.

While Tea Parties and concerned citizens focus their energies on changing the dysfunctional legislative process that is the status quo in the other Washington, lawmakers in Olympia are ignoring widespread voter demands for transparency into …