What the babies in the Senate Conoco caucus SHOULD be taking blame for, is lying to us all when they said at the very beginning of the session "everything is on the table" to address the deficit fairly.  They said it a dozen times.  Whenever asked if an income tax or oil taxes would be on the table, to a person they said again "everything`s on the table".  But that was then this is now, right? and what`s another lie...
Now the gerrymandered-into-office oil lobbyists in the Senate argue that fixing a complicated, unauditable and unsustainable oil production tax formula, and fixing the rest of the fiscal hole in the budget with a progressive income tax like we used to have are "off the table"!  The oily Senate now says there is no need for them, or even vet them. I`m calling BS.  They are like the Emperor with no clothes on, while the  plain proof is in the numbers and before the eyes, and cannot be controverted. But they are all cut from the same ideological anti-tax ALEC cloth, Still..