Minnesota GOP: WTF?

Minnesota has been a chasm of political fighting for the past year.  Month in and month out, before the session even started, Dayton and the GOP have been hammering their positions.  Each were fully aware of the budget scenario and each had very clear goal:

Dayton:  Wanted to raise taxes to fill the budget deficit, avoiding cuts to current programs as they existed.

GOP:  Wanted to spend exactly what the State would bring in, which would result in a need to cut funding in certain areas of the budget due to the projected increase in costs.

Okay, so we've go two relatively clear goals.  'New spending to continue programs as they are' and 'no new spending; modify programs as needed.'

Now, I'll admit that I'm a liberal and I supported Dayton.  I just flat out would rather the government provide more help to citizens if they need it.  That's me.  No hard feelings.  However, I can respect and understand the opposing argument if it is logical. My problem is that the GOP was illogical for a majority of the session and illogical in its resolution.  Here's why:

Go back to Dayton's goal as I laid it out.  He wanted to keep full funding for programs as they existed.  Despite that the revenue came from a shift and a loan against tobacco settlement payments, the resolution was consistent with his goal: to fund the current programs as much as possible.  Taxes were the means to this end.

However, the GOP goal was essentially that spending not increase.  Sure the resolution didn't involve any new taxes, but they still authorized a spending increase.  Moreover, the GOP regularly touted how the State needs to be responsible and live within its means.  Yet, the resolution was solved by borrowing and a one time source of money.  While that rhetoric isn't necessarily contradicted by the chosen solution, I an inconsistency is present.

Ultimately, my problem with the GOP is that they did exactly what they've been so damn insistent on not doing.  Not only that, but they did it in the worst possible way, through debt and one time money.  Whether you believe government should be smaller or larger, whether taxes should increase or decrease, it should at least be done in a responsible way.  But that should have been fucking obvious.