Take this prediction to the bank: The next session of the Nevada Legislature will not commence as scheduled on Feb. 7, 2011, but sometime next year, perhaps as early as January.
The only questions are just what will be on the agenda, how much can be worked out beforehand and what decibel level the legislative whining will reach. What is not in question is that there will be a spectacular lack of policy purity on display as a governor who doesn’t like federal money for education will be arguing for federal money for education and Democratic legislative leaders will be meekly standing by and allowing cuts they abhor to be enacted while mouthing fiscal conservative shibboleths they hardly believe. It will be almost as grotesque as a full-length legislative session.
