The Washington Times:


The Republican National Committee failed to report more than $7 million in debt to the Federal Election Commission in recent months -- a move that made its bottom line appear healthier than it is heading into the midterm elections.

In Milwaukee County, the Public Policy Forum says the county is walking into an estimated $20 million to $45 million budget hole—and that doesn’t include deferred maintenance (estimated to be $200 million in the parks alone), the still-unresolved employee concessions written into the 2010 budget, and challenges at the Mental Health Complex and at the Milwaukee County Transit System (estimated transit shortfall next year: about $10 million, the Shepherd Express reports.


And then there's the $400-million Walker borrowed to shore up the shortfall in the pension fund, which still needs to be repaid.


But Walker has merrily announced a budget surplus of $8.9-million for 2009.


See any similarities? Or is that simply a horse of a different feather, as a Wisconsin legislator once said?