Duh Der Doy Duh

The Washington Post today editorializes about Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's seeming inelegance on budget issues early in his term. One note in particular caught my eye:

We'd ask the same question about his much-vaunted transportation plan. The governor said he would raise hundreds of millions of dollars to build roads by selling off state-run liquor stores. But at his urging, a bill in the legislature to do just that was killed last week. The probable reason? Profits from such liquor stores go directly into the state's coffers, to the tune of about $100 million a year. Mr. McDonnell, having promised to tackle Virginia's transportation funding crisis in his first year in office, still has time. What Virginians have yet to see are viable ideas that will yield cash for a transportation budget whose construction funds are just about gone.

I had previously seen estimates of $180 million a year, actually. It appears we're not the only ones here at the imaginary think-tank of Crack Whores for Good Government who noticed that Virginia had heard a man offer to gut a golden goose and decided it sounded like a pretty cool idea to them and made that guy the Governor. As The Washington Post basically said today, how are you going to fix transportation in Virginia now, Bobby?