Tom Peterkin: The Budget

So the SNP budget has finally secured parliamentary support after an unseemly week of huffing, puffing and posturing. With the support of the Tories, the Lib Dems and Labour, Alex Salmond has once again come up smelling of roses despite his combative approach to minority Government. What about the poor old Greens, who seem to have rejected the deal of the century?
Salmond's original offer of £33 million for home insulation to the Greens was cut to £15 million. At the weekend, Harvie warned that if ministers wanted the SNP/Green relationship to "seriously deteriorate, they will find our position over the next two years much more difficult to try and reach agreement, vote by vote, week by week".
So we're in for two more years of legislative battling - courtesy of two Green MSPs. Unless, of course, Salmond can rely on his new pals in the Lib Dems to keep riding to the rescue as they pursue their shared dream of borrowing powers for Holyrood.