Ohio Republicans replace Gov. John Kasich's bad budget with another bad budget

Bobby Jindal has company. Just days after the Louisiana governor had to admit that his massive tax overhaul was massively unpopular and wouldn't pass the state legislature, Republicans in the Ohio state House are dealing a similar blow to Gov. John Kasich.

Like Jindal, Kasich's blow is coming at the hands of legislators from his own party—and, in fact, the Ohio Republicans are in many ways advancing an even more irresponsible, damaging plan than Kasich had. For instance, the House bill scraps both the Medicaid expansion, which Kasich was prepared to accept, and an increased tax on oil and gas drilling. Oh, and while they're at it:

House leaders also used their overhauled bill to resurrect a proposal that would effectively strip federal dollars from Planned Parenthood and other stand-alone family-planning clinics. The proposal was shelved late last year by the Ohio Senate.

The proposal would reprioritize allocations of federal family-planning dollars. Instead of using the current competitive grant process, priority would be given to public health departments and federally qualified health centers before nonpublic family planning centers such as the 32 operated in Ohio by Planned Parenthood. The federal funds cannot be used for abortions. Under the previous proposal, Planned Parenthood would have lost an estimated $2 million.

This is not the last word; not only does the full Ohio House have to vote on this bill but the (also Republican-controlled) state Senate may resurrect Kasich's bill. And Kasich did not have the presidential ambitions Jindal had and saw damaged in his tax loss. But infighting among Republicans has definitely reached the states this week.