Are you embarrassed yet?

There are winners in the sometimes internecine battles going on in Carson City between Republicans and Democrats, but they’re mostly the authors of political campaign fliers for the next election cycle.

“Democrats vote against budget to build new schools.” “Republicans vote to screw everybody from construction workers to taxi drivers.” “Democrats flip-flop on sunset taxes.” “Republicans use voodoo math to give away the state to Uber.”

Those are but a few of the headlines you might pull out of your mailbox next year as the parties battle over who controls the Legislature in the 2017 session. The question is, will the political gamesmanship subside enough to allow lawmakers to pass the bills necessary to close down the current session in the next 22 days?

Things went wrong Thursday, as Democrats in the Senate’s Revenue and Economic Development Committee voted against a bill containing the so-called sunset taxes, a package of supposedly temporary levies first passed in 2009 and extended two times since. They say there’s no reason to pass them right now, but Republicans disagreed.

“Governor [Brian] Sandoval laid out a bold agenda to better fund and reform our education system in Nevada,” Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Henderson, said in a statement. “Senate Bill 483 [the sunset bill] is an important piece of this plan and has been part of our budget for years. Many of the same Democrats who voted against this bill have voted for a nearly identical bill in previous sessions. Democrats are bringing Washington-style politics to Nevada by opposing a bill they had previously supported. The Democrats are taking their historic electoral defeat out on the children of Nevada and they should be embarrassed.”

Replied Senate Minority Leader Aaron Ford: “For a decade, only one party in the Senate has cared enough for Nevada’s children to support raising revenue for schools, and that’s been the Democrats. The fact of the matter is that Senate Republicans have repeatedly failed this session to put together a revenue package that would adequately fund education and other essential services in Nevada. Every day we find a new hole in the Republican budget, and every day Republicans are forced to resort to some new gimmick to try to fill it.

“To date, no Republican revenue plan would raise enough to balance our state budget, let alone provide funds necessary to solve Nevada’s growing teacher shortage crisis. When Senate Democrats are presented with a comprehensive revenue package that we are confident will meet Nevada’s needs, we will be happy to support it. We hope that going forward our Republican colleagues will set aside their partisan bluster and remember their duty to govern responsibly. To not do so would be an embarrassment.”

There’s certainly no embarrassment of riches when it comes to campaign material, is there? Both sides are essentially correct: Democrats have supported the sunsets for years, and majority Republicans have yet to coalesce around a final revenue package. But the real embarrassment will come if that doesn’t happen because the political rhetoric has grown so heated that a compromise is impossible.

Already, the infighting led to a delay in the Senate on a big bill: Just one day after Republicans and Democrats voted for an amendment to legalize the ride-sharing service Uber, the deal collapsed. Democrats said they were concerned about revenue projections and asked for more time. Republicans refused and held a vote anyway, falling one vote short of passage, even after Roberson warned that doing so could cost the state the $20 million necessary to fully fund a medical school at UNLV.

Can you guess what adjective Democrats used to describe that situation?

“Using the Uber bill as a means to threaten funding for the UNLV medical school was an embarrassing display by our Republican colleagues,” said state Sen. Debbie Smith, D-Sparks.

Somebody get me the Maalox, and then get the Legislature’s leaders a calendar. And a thesaurus.

Steve Sebelius is a Las Vegas Review-Journal political columnist who blogs at SlashPolitics.com. Follow him on Twitter (@SteveSebelius) or reach him at 702-387-5276 or ssebelius@reviewjournal.com.