Can we just get this done?

Gov. Tom Wolf seemed intent on having a nearly six-month-late state budget done by Thanksgiving. Now he’s set on having it done by Friday.

The only deadline that matters — or used to matter, anyway — was midnight July 1, the beginning of Pennsylvania’s fiscal year.

Wolf, a first-term Democrat, and the Republican Legislature reportedly have hammered out the “framework” of a negotiated budget.

Under vague descriptions of the pending deal, Wolf will get some of what he’s asked for, only in significantly smaller quantities.

Wolf will get some but not nearly all of the tax increases he sought to help balance the $30.7 billion deal.

He’ll also get a large increase in state aid to public schools.

What the governor won’t get are a severance tax on Marcellus Shale gas wells or an expanded school property tax relief program.

In return, the Republicans stand to get some major steps toward privatization of the state-owned liquor monopoly.

They also will get a new pension plan for future state and public school hires that adds a 401(k)-style defined contribution component.

This is all tentative and hazy, since lawmakers fled Harrisburg on Tuesday to spend the Thanksgiving weekend at home.

But when they return and present their negotiated budget, rest assured that everyone will be able to claim a partial victory. There’s no doubt many will.

That’s saddening because we’ve gone half the year without a budget — a period during which the withholding of state funding has harmed and hampered school districts and a multitude of state-funded services at the county level.

That has the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania exploring the possibility of a lawsuit to force state government to fund services for children, senior citizens, addicts and mentally disabled and mentally ill people.

Bucks County already has declared it will withhold the $4 million to $5 million it collects each month in state real estate transfer taxes and court fees. Other counties are considering doing the same.

Wolf set the Dec. 4 target date — let’s not even bother calling it a deadline — when a tentative agreement was scuttled last week amid GOP objections to a proposed sales tax increase and the allocation of school property tax cuts.

It would be prudent of the Legislature and Gov. Wolf to begin work on the fiscal 2016-17 budget as soon as they wrap up this year’s.

They need to allocate more time to the drawn-out negotiations process.

What’s more, the pain, frustration and anger they have inflicted by failure to meet the budget deadline will be fresh on the minds of their electorate, who would be loath to let them drag their feet on a budget deal in two consecutive years.