High praise for Doyle from frequent critic

Capital Times Editor Dave Zweifel, whose newspaper has not exactly been a cheering section for Gov. Jim Doyle, likes what Doyle did with his budget vetoes, to say the least.

"Doyle comes through for Wisconsin" is the headline on Zweifel's column.

Doyle doesn't get a free pass; Zweifel doesn't like levy limits, for example.

But his closing line is one that Doyle detractors on the left should heed:

For all that we hold dear in Wisconsin, the next two years would have been trouble, indeed, had this governor not been there.

Indeed.