No need to rush

Gov. Blagojevich today is calling on the Legislature to reconvene before the end of the year to provide permanent property tax relief for Cook County homeowners. But he's already lost that battle. Remember, lawmakers passed a three-year relief plan. Then the governor used his veto pen to make that plan more generous and make it permanent. We supported his version, but lawmakers overrode him and restored their original plan, just weeks ago. Cook County homeowners still will get some relief for the next three years, just not as much. We're all for revisiting the issue, but there's no emergency, no need for a huge rush. If they wanted to — and clearly they do not — lawmakers could take up the governor's crusade when their next session starts in 2008.