When Gov. Kasich sat down to sign the new budget Sunday night, the document’s thousands of pages near him towered much  higher than the several volumes of our family library’s copy of War and Peace.  Rising still higher behind him,  however, was  a phalanx of dark-suited enablers on the Kasich Team who always make themselves available on festive occasions. Pure performance art, folks.

It was the governor’s carpe diem moment  as, with his workaday, jutting lower lip visage, he made the Great Budget of 2013 official.  He then  abruptly arose from  his noble mission and retired though the beaming phalanx without answering any of the […]