And Whose Fault is That?

It would appear that the fallout over the DOT potential ruling on DST have begun to take shape, with most of the concern centering on the St. Joseph county decision.

"Gov. Mitch Daniels issued a statement calling the decision -- which would move St. Joseph County to the Central time zone and leave its social and economic neighbor to the east, Elkhart County, in the Eastern time zone -- "obviously unworkable."

Who didn't see this coming? Mitch it was your idea to not set a time zone, you said let the counties petition DOT individually. You said you expected the counties that petitioned to simply receive a letter granting their requests. How did you not see this coming? It was your idea.

This mess is nothing more then the most severe manifestation of Mitch's absolute abdication of his role as a leader. He has a BMV commissioner running wild, unemployment checks that take months to arrive to those who need them, and FSSA isn't any better off then before. But this has been Mitch's crown jewel of leadership failure, DST was his idea, he was willing to twist any and all arms as needed to get it passed, and he didn't care in what form it was passed, and there in lies the problem. He was so eager to get it passed that he allowed it to become this charade of effective governance, allowing nearly any change required to pick up a vote regardless of it effect on the implementation. So now we are left with this mess, people being told it will be their choice on what time zone they live it, except it isn't, and nobody really has any clue how it will end.

He may be governor, but he's no leader.