The state legislature has finished work on the 2011-13 budget, but the federal government is still in budget mode.  In her column this week, Kimberley Strassel (our annual dinner speaker this year) asks who is winning the budget war: 

By refusing to blink, Republicans keep forcing Democrats to acknowledge a very simple political reality: Voters do want spending reform, and do not want tax hikes.

That will certainly ring true to Washington voters, whose support for I-1053 in November ensured budget reforms instead of higher taxes to cover the remaining 2009-11 and 2011-13 shortfalls.