[Article first appeared at Red County.]
449px-Millais_-_Ophelia_(detail) Like the plot of a slick science fiction thriller, Washington residents are about to be framed for the crime of murdering their own economic future. After the Democrats in …

Gregoire has indicated she will sign SB 6130 on Wednesday, just in time to do a little free-wheeling tax raisin’ and for Democrats to figure out how to legally kill off the I-960 spending restraint law while it sleeps, like a vampire story in reverse.

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 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.

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 …