So far, for my money, Inslee has been the ultimate fence-rider... and applying that label to a governor really says something. His mission is to conserve natural resources and promote green energy (while "growing Washington's economy" with environmental disasters like coal and oil exports), to increase awareness of the outdoors and quality of outdoor experiences (while assuring more existing tax revenues go to pay for failing infrastructure projects and keeping death row inmates alive longer), etc....

I question how much of the irony is due to Inslee's agenda, however, as compared to the hopeless budget shortfalls his predecessors (and the state of our economy, in general) left him. Kind of like Obama in my opinion. A lame duck, with no hope of a positive legacy, and therefore, just "playing the game."

I think we're about to have a rude awakening to the fact that there are simply too many people on the planet, competing for limited resources, to allow for the standard of living we have enjoyed in this country for a long time to continue to be sustainable. The fact is, there are only so many resources, natural and financial, to go around, and we can't all have it all anymore. Find me a politician who can fix that, and he/she's got my vote....