Partisan posturing is going to have to give way to some commonsense solutions if we’re to emerge from these economic times of uncertainty stronger for the long haul.  Care to guess where the most commonsense resides in this country?  Not always here.  From The AP:

Secretary of State Jan Brewer said Wednesday that she’ll seek a balanced approach with carefully chosen spending cuts to solve the state’s budget crisis and isn’t willing to “just go in and chop, chop, chop.”

Brewer, a Republican, is expected to become governor within weeks upon Democrat Janet Napolitano’s resignation after she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as homeland security secretary in President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet.

Brewer said during an interview taped for airing on KAET-TV’s “Horizon” program that the budget crisis is huge and that she and her advisers are still studying possible solutions.

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