One councilmember tore up the bill. Another called the whole idea a “vendetta.” A third compared the debate to Alice in Wonderland. Tempers flared. Parliamentary procedure seemed non-existent at times. The term “class warfare” was bandied about. And Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) somehow ended up on the same side of a tax debate as his colleague from Ward 2, Jack Evans.

With a mere two weeks left in the District’s 2011 fiscal year, D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi told Mayor Vince Gray that he stumbled across an additional $89 million in cash today.

Most people would say that fiscal policy isn’t made overnight, but the D.C. Council seems to think otherwise.