"The House Republican speaker makes ready for failure."

"...Virginians should brace themselves, at least in the near term, for finger-pointing and recriminations."

According to the Washington Post in their editorial of Monday, June 23rd, the  scenarios for this current transportation special session is an "unsatisfactory compromise" or "a quick political train wreck."

Who is setting up his train wreck? 

"For that they can blame Virginia's Republican leadership, arch-conservative ideologues whose insistent sloganeering -- No Statewide Taxes! -- suggests an utter failure to grasp the stakes in the transportation debate. It is not simply that the party's grandees in Richmond -- principally, House Speaker William J. Howell (Stafford) -- are touting a different solution to the problem. They barely acknowledge there's a problem at all."

For more please read the entire editorial in the "Caucus News" section below.