Cutoff over, budget preview stories published, Olympia grinds down the rocky path toward a budget that will make a lot of people unhappy. 

Some previews and commentary:

-At Publicola, Josh Feit continues to mine revealing comments from politicians' Facebook pages.

-Adam Wilson (and TVW) have a video excerpt from floor debate in which Republicans repeatedly try to quote Sen. Karen Keiser's "it's payback time" blog post re: a bill, while Democrats repeatedly argue that quoting Keiser's own words is the same as "impugning" her.

-The TNT's Joe Turner has a lengthy rundown on where various topics stand in Olympia(children's health care, college tuition, all-day kindergarten, and the much-written-about porn tax).

-Also from the TNT: The state Fish and Wildlife commission is unhappy with Sen. Ken Jacobsen's proposal to shrink it and strip it of the ability to pick its own chairperson.

-And on a lighter note, Wilson's got another installment in his ongoing video series that paints the statehouse as an episode in a survivor show. Appropos of bill cutoff time, this one features swordplay.

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