Perhaps he could have learned.  Probably not while in office, but he was listening.

If that is the way it has to be again in 2012, so be it.  I'm sorry, but when our surrounding Rustbelt states are framing movement away from an archaic ideology of public sector collective bargaining born in a evanescent day of industrial dominance wages in the Midwest, and then to have us in Michigan not uniting along with them is pure insanity.  It is obvious that what now appears as our bifurcate-tongued Governor Snyder in his willful violation of listening to his legislatures "everything on the table" beginnings.  Furthermore, Speaker Bolger could not have more adeptly put his following statement:

But there's also "the sense of responsibility and the expectations of the people of the state of Michigan," he said.

"They deserve better than they've gotten and we have to make sure we deliver the results," Bolger said.  "We have no excuses."

Yessiree.  No excuses.  Yet, when push comes to shove, nothing but excuses now seemingly pervade the spines of Lansing GOP sent with our mandate of delivering results.  Zero gained revisionism business tax?  Income tax increases discharging set rollbacks from the highest income tax rate in the history of this state?  Reduction of the homestead property tax credit?  A minuscule 0.38% of the proposed budget in "savings" on public unions that still would yet have to be negotiated to attempt to "bring their compensation in-line"?  Another $47 billion budget proposed that is ballooned to the size of Jennifer Granholm's final budget?

That is absurd!  We still deserve better.

Riddle me this my friend.  When did what is written here on RightMichigan.com become unsatisfactory in regards to what I read as many contributors here, a distaste of what they are now witnessing from a very, very message sending "turn the state red" 2010 election?

Don't get me wrong, I do receive the message relayed.  However, the frustration, or poison as referred to, is being enabled by Lansing itself.  From my own perspective... if my representation requires as such the necessity of holding ones hand to do what is right when in the face of opposition of actuality, well, then my representation will soon suffer the loss of my support, or vote.  This again, I cannot emphasize strongly enough, in the consequences of what the now Democrat minority in Lansing brought upon itself in the resulting 2010 election.  Nor can I emphasize the future consequences strong enough to a so far ineffectual GOP Majority presiding over Lansing for the nearing election in 2012.

As what I consider a wise man with what he wrote:

Even while doing what I disagreed with, he was finding a place of comfort with those who were challenging the hard left shift.  

Perhaps he could have learned.  Probably not while in office, but he was listening.