Sorry Dave…

…the knife won't come out.

As noted last month, freshman Republican stabbed his former colleagues in law enforcement in the back, voting to kill the COPS program, which he tapped for more than $15 million in his days as King County Sherrif. One notable beneficiary of the dollars was the Green River Killer investigation, which made Reichert a crime busting celebrity of sorts and helped launch his partisan political career.

Perhaps he thought his hypocrisy would go unnoticed, but it was just a bit too blatant to hide, and now Reichert's backtracking, attempting a last minute hail Mary on the House floor in a vain effort to restore some of the funding he had already voted to cut.

Naturally, the GOP leadership isn't having any of it. They've already picked the constituencies that will prosper under the new budget, and Reichert's police pals (are they still his pals?) aren't among them. No real profit in police work, I guess.

Astonishingly, the Seattle Times' Alicia Mundy managed to crank out nearly 1000 words under the Orwellian headline "Dave Reichert Goes to Bat for Police" about Reichert's failure to restore the funds and never mentioned his success at getting them cut in the first place. Reichert comes across sounding like an innocent bystander who just showed up and found the budget cut rather than a the loyal minion to the destructionist Republican leadership that he's quickly proven to be.

In fairness, the Times piece reveals his complete ineptitude as a legislator, too, so I don't imagine a resume to his PR shop is in Mundy's future, even if her latest work seems like a press release from his office…

Hat tip to Cool Aqua