text: Patience, young lady.  This is only the second of probably at least five special sessions.  So long as the turncoats in the House hold Alaskan's paychecks hostage the manufactured crisis will linger on.  But maybe, just maybe, they'll figure out that a long shutdown will demonstrate how many state services are not essential.  How many state employees can be permanently laid off.  Still, even after that, they'll likely continue to try to shrink people's paychecks.  Hey, it's just what that end of the poolitical (intentional) spectrum does.