Would you like some honesty with your coffee this morning? How about this statement from Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez about the Seattle City Council’s recent efforts to tax jobs:

“It’s time for us to swallow our medicine. We [expletive] this up. Royally.”

This is in sharp contrast what the Councilmember said about why the measure was defeated right after the repeal: the Council would lose a campaign against “the richest man in the world to defend this policy.”

She and Councilmember Herbold said it was the lies of the business community, and not the general discontent from the electorate, that was behind their moves. In essence, the City Council felt that it was deception of the business community that fomented that discontent. It wasn’t their fault.

But clearly, behind the scenes, the backbiting and blame was clearly all at City Hall where it belongs. It’s too bad that City politicians couldn’t find the courage to admit that publicly. But you can read all the truth you can handle in this morning’s Seattle Times.