And the chutzpah of the year award goes to...

The Republican Party of Wisconsin, for having the nerve to issue this release when 16 years of Republican governors' budgets left Jim Doyle with a $3.2-billion deficit when he took office. He has cut it in half. The GOP says:

State Faces $1.5 Billion Deficit

(Madison, WI)...Despite multiple promises that he balanced the state budget without raising taxes, Jim Doyle has put Wisconsin into a $1.5 billion deficit. The non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau says the state is facing a budget hole of at least $1.5 billion in 2007. The Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Rick Graber, says the news that Jim Doyle overspent the taxpayer's money is not a surprise.

Do they think we were all born yesterday? Even Steve Walters hasn't used this one.