Democrats happy to join in with Republicans on advocating an end to Gov. Perdue's “austerity” cuts to education.

Dick Pettys writes in InsiderAdvantage Georgia:

Just as Democrats used to do to them when they were in the majority, Republicans have stolen an issue from the Democrats, and Democrats couldn’t be happier. The Republicans this session are advocating an end to the “austerity” cuts to education that Perdue has kept in his budget version since the last recession.

And it clearly sticks in the governor’s craw that members of his own party are now trying to bash him with the same issue Democrats tried to use against him in his 2006 re-election campaign.