January 23, 2009 07:28 PM UTC

Budget Horror Show Pushed Back To Next Tuesday

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• by: Colorado Pols

Have a nice weekend, the Rocky Mountain News’ Lynn Bartels reports ominously:

The bloodbath has been delayed.

Gov. Bill Ritter was scheduled to unveil next year’s budget to the Joint Budget Committee today, but the presentation has been moved to Tuesday.

Democrats who have been briefed on some of the proposed cuts say they are staggering. The state is grappling with a massive revenue shortfall as tax collections spiral…

Word is that budget projections have deteriorated even further since the governor’s bleak assessment one week ago. We’re talking devastating with a capital ‘D,’ folks, the bill for decades of TABOR, Arveschoug-Bird, and other ideological hubris coming due.

The delay here is in part necessary to come up with the right way to break some very depressing news…

Unless you’re a not-so-secretly gleeful Republican, of course.