With only hours left in the regular session, the Washington State House just rejected the Senate Republicans' coup budget on a 56-43-ish vote (I neglected to write down the tally). Not that it's news, but this sorta-officially guarantees a special session.

Also not news, Republicans are bunch of fucking liars. Listening to the TVW broadcast it was often hard to figure out whether the representative was a Republican or a Democrat, mostly because the Republicans kept accusing the Democrats of cutting funding for education, when in fact it's the other way around, and kept attacking the Democratic budget for its "gimmicks," when the R's balance theirs by skipping a pension payment. But you know, I guess if they repeat it often enough, voters might believe it's true.

Also, the Republicans repeated assertions that they made "a good faith effort," and that their budget is "bipartisan"...? What an utter load of crap. Honestly, GOPers, fuck you.

That said, one thing the Republicans and I have in common is that we both read Seattle Times editorials. The difference is, I don't obnoxiously read them out loud on the floor of the state House.