One doesn’t have to think hard that the following would never happen in NC. But if a special election were threatened, how quickly might all the proposed spending evaporate as Black, Basnight, Rand and their spending kin retreat into the shadows. Now this is LEADERSHIP!!!!

Democrats Surrender on Governor?s Budget
Surrendering to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the face of the coming special-election fight, Democrats who control the legislature abandoned their effort to add billions of dollars to the governor’s proposed state budget and prepared to vote for a spending plan with no new taxes and no extra money for schools. (from the LA Times)