NC GOP contradicts itself over Budget spending

Trying to tie the Governor's hands over Pre-K funding:

Perdue wants to restore $30 million to the Pre-K program by using money that hasn't yet been earmarked for other programs and by taking millions of dollars out of the state's Emergency Fund. But Republican lawmakers argue it's an inappropriate use of emergency fund money. They point out the legislature already approved the budget over the governor's veto.

While granting her Budgetary carte blanche to solve their poor handling of the Medicaid issue:

Cansler wrote to them on Nov. 15 seeking what kind of assistance the General Assembly could provide after Tillis suggested earlier in the month that reserves and a revenue surplus could be tapped to avoid the burdensome service cuts upon Medicaid patients.

"We have every faith and expectation that you, along with the governor, will address the Medicaid shortfall within this authority without taking the drastic measures you mentioned in your letter," Tillis and Berger wrote.

"The General Assembly passed the budget. The governor needs to execute on that budget," Dollar said. "The governor needs to come up with one-time money from the budget as a whole ... to address that cash flow problem."

The lack of responsibility exhibited by Republicans in the General Assembly is both breathtaking and nauseating. But that's what happens when your ideology is on par with a pissed-off third-grade playground bully.