“You don’t give up just because you don’t get anything done,” said John Kasich, Ohio’s great reformer governor, about the last bad budget he submits before wandering off the political radar screen in two years.

Statehouse watchers predict Gov. Kasich’s last bad budget at $66.9 billion, again topping the charts as the largest in state history, will largely be ignored in its current form. Not getting anything done while talking about what he wants to do is basic Kasich. As C.G. Jung put it: “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

Why Johnny can’t learn that his former […]