Minor Thoughts from me to you

The Capital Times is one of the local newspapers, here in Dane County, Wisconsin. I refuse to subscribe to it, as it's pretty much a mouthpiece for the local Democrat party and the "progressives" of Progressive Dane. My most frequent name for the Cap Times is "that liberal rag".

Ahem. I say all of that to set the stage for this article on the budget stalemate. For starters, it's titled "Republicans Face Tough Choices in Budget Battle". It start out like this:

As state budget talks drag on, Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, faces a series of increasingly difficult choices.

He can give Senate Democrats and Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle some or all of the tax and spending increases they want -- a move that would cost him support within his own party and could force him to seek up to 25 Democratic votes to pass the budget in his house.

Or Huebsch can exercise the so-called "nuclear option" by refusing to give in to the Democrats on taxes and blocking adoption of a final budget -- a move that would blow up the entire budget process and throw the state into fiscal uncertainty.

All of which is true enough, but incredibly slanted. After all, Democrats "face tough choices in the budget battle". They could compromise too. But they won't. And the Cap Times is on their side, so it pretends that only the Republicans can (and should) compromise. Instead that liberal rag presents the entire battle as one Republican obstruction after another. Never mind that the Democrats have ignored every budget compromise that Speaker Huebsch has presented.

I think what I'm trying to say is, there's two sides to every story. It'd be nice of the local papers ever presented more than one side.