Sensibilities are fraying in Harrisburg seven weeks into a budget stalemate between Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-dominated state Legislature.

Republicans rejected the $31.6 billion budget Wolf proposed in February. Wolf, in turn, vetoed the Republicans’ $30.2 billion budget bill on June 30.

Eight weeks into the new fiscal year, withdrawal spasms are just now beginning for some human service agencies that depend on state tax dollars. The agencies are cutting services and borrowing money. They’re calling on Wolf and lawmakers to pass at least a stopgap budget before their funding dilemma becomes a full-bloom crisis.

So far the heightened sense of urgency has failed to accelerate any legislative action. There has not been any movement toward a human services stopgap. Instead, negotiations have focused on the GOP leadership’s demand to reduce the state’s $50 billion in unfunded public pension liabilities.

Wolf, who vetoed a Republican pension overhaul package in July, offered to reconsider portions of the proposal last week. House and Senate leaders spurned Wolf’s offer, saying it won’t do enough to decrease the state’s $50 billion in unfunded liabilities.

On Tuesday, Wolf lashed out at GOP leaders for criticizing his offer of a compromise.

“It seems like I’ve made the concessions on everything, and I’ve been compromising and reaching out, trying to move and I’ve gotten nothing from the other side,” Wolf said during a radio interview. “So it’s sort of disingenuous for anybody on that side to say I’m not moving enough. You can’t negotiate with yourself, it has to be two parties and I’m trying to recognize the fact that we have disagreement, I’m trying to move and I’m not seeing anything on the other side except for that kind of posturing.”

“Disingenuous” is defined as “insincere or pretending to know less than you do.”

It’s an interesting word choice from the freshman governor who campaigned on the premise that he’s a business owner who knows how business works, and said he intended to run the state government in a businesslike manner.

Wolf’s contention raises the question: How businesslike is it to ask your stockholders — the taxpayers — to shell out more sales tax, more income tax and a new severance tax on natural gas? How businesslike is it to lump all three of these increases into a take-it-or-leave-it budget proposal? And when the Legislature rejected his proposal, was it disingenuous to act surprised or disappointed about the rejection?

As an interesting side-note, it was reported Tuesday that the Wolf administration has broken off a 20-year tradition: quarterly meetings with the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry to discuss environmental issues.

A spokesman for the chamber wrote in memo: “We believe that the termination of their continued participation is an attempt at retribution against the Chamber for its advocacy on tax, budget and other issues ... clearly, we are disappointed, though not surprised.”

Again, not very businesslike. Maybe even a little disingenuous.

Wolf is correct in his assessment that the House and Senate GOP leadership has been difficult and ornery, maybe even a little disingenuous.

That’s why Pennsylvanians elected Wolf to be their governor. We accepted his campaign pledge that he’s the businessman who can gain their cooperation.