We probably couldn’t describe an assessment of this year’s first-ever legislative fiscal session much better than the governor himself.

“Could we have done without it?” Gov. Mike Beebe said. “Yeah, we’ve done without it for a hundred-something years. But the people are the boss.”

Not to be accused of incising quotes out of context, we add that the above remark was taken from Andrew DeMillo’s column elsewhere on this page. In that column, Beebe says of the session that it helped, considering the state’s current rocky economic times, but he was not enthusiastic about its ...