Deep thoughts...

On the budget....

The same Republicans who refuse to increase taxes or cut spending further in the budget impasse are the same Republicans who passed Taft's tax hikes without batting an eye.  Instead of a choice between cutting services further or increasing taxes, why is nobody talking about freezing tax rates to keep them from being reduced further?

According to that left-wing sympathetic organization, the Buckeye Institute, during the Taft years, state government spending increased nearly three times the rate of inflation while tax revenue collections only grew nearly twice the rate of inflation.

So there you have the structual deficit that Strickland inherited.  (Most of the Institute's articles suggest that Strickland has kept government spending increases modest.  In fact, the linked article points out that Ohio has done better on taxing and spending issues with Democratic governors than it did with the 1990s Republican governor era.  Imagine that.)

On today's Supreme Court decision in Ricci case.

According to some conservatives, today's 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court reversing the Second Circuit is evidence of how "radical" Sotomayor would be for the Court.  But how radical can she be if she was one vote away from having the U.S. Supreme Court uphold her decision and the Republican-appointed justice she is replacing voted to affirm her decision?

I don't think the anti-Sotomayor camp is going to get much mileage out of Ricci as they were expecting.