An Ohio Budget?

It appears that there might be a deal on the Ohio budget. The Chillicothe Gazette:

State lawmakers ended an impasse over a budget gap late Wednesday by agreeing to combine Gov. Ted Strickland's tax cut delay with a pilot project to test new construction rules, averting cuts to school districts and a working holiday....
.....The main pieces of the deal include a delay in the final 4.2 percent planned reduction in income taxes to fill an $850 million budget gap, a pilot program for proposed changes in state construction procedures and a plan to make it easier for school districts to get out of a requirement that they provide all-day kindergarten, said Keary McCarthy, a spokesman for House Speaker Armond Budish, a Beachwood Democrat.
Strickland's tax cut delay had run into a wall in the Senate, with the majority of Republicans refusing to vote for any plan that contained it because they viewed it as a tax increase. A small group of Republicans -- likely around five -- is expected to vote for it Thursday in return for the all-day kindergarten measure and the construction rules pilot program....

If this does indeed work out, we can chalk it up to common Republican tactics of delay, delay, delay.
While schools, colleges, parents, students, and educators were sent into panic mode, while the Republicans played games with people's lives.