Gov. Rick Scott found out this week that there is this pesky little thing called the Florida Legislature as lawmakers pushed back on a couple of his decisions for the first time.

Whatever leftover warm-and-fuzziness there was with lawmakers from Scott’s inauguration came to a screeching halt at least as sudden as the one he put on a proposed Tampa-to-Orlando high-speed rail by rejecting 2.4 billion federal dollars to build it.

If that wasn’t enough transport angst, the Senate chief budget writer brought some turbulence to Scott’s much-ballyhooed sale of the state aircraft fleet by saying that the get-to-work governor may have violated state law and even the Constitution by selling off the planes.

If they ever had been honeymooners, several lawmakers skipped the muttering of “one of these days … one of these days,” this week. A veto-proof number of them got right to work themselves trying to detour around Scott to take the train money anyway.

Led by rail supporter Sen. Paula Dockery, a bipartisan group of 26 Florida senators sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood suggesting the Passenger Rail Commission and Rail Enterprise could accept the cash.

Also picking up steam by the end of the week was the possibility that cities and counties or transportation planning organizations in Central Florida could bypass the state and directly accept the cash.

Dockery so vocally supported Scott’s campaign that she was rumored to be under consideration to be his lieutenant governor or transportation secretary. But by week’s end, she was the conductor of the anti-Scott train.

"I'm hearing from Central Florida that the mayors are getting together talking about what they can do, I'm hearing that the (metropolitan planning organizations) are talking about what they can do, I'm hearing that chambers of commerce in Miami and other places are talking about what they can do … so there's a lot of efforts going on," she told reporters as she collected signatures for her letter to LaHood.

Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich indicated this week that her 11-member caucus would be willing to participate in any legislative effort to create an end-run around Scott on rail, and indeed all of them signed onto Dockery’s letter.

The public backlash is not to suggest that there was not also quiet muttering about Scott’s decision this week. Most of it wasn’t fit to print.

"At least today I'm not using four-letter words," said Rich Templin, vice president of one of the state's largest labor unions, the AFL-CIO, the day after Scott’s decision. "This is a tragedy, a disaster of unmitigated proportions."

One of the capital’s newspaper bureaus quoted an unnamed source in the Legislature asking if Scott was “****ing crazy.”

There were some cheers for Scott’s decision coming from the fourth floor of the Capitol, though it took three days before even a peep was heard from Senate President Mike Haridopolos. When the aspiring U.S. Senate candidate finally decided to speak, he was definitely not saying “all aboard.”

“The federal government has earmarked $2.4 billion to finance part of the cost of construction of the proposed Florida high-speed rail project,” Haridopolos said in a statement. “But to do so, Washington would borrow 100 percent of that money, which would be financed in large part by foreign, nondemocratic governments.”

Haridopolos quickly steered the conversation toward President Barack Obama, however, making clear that high-speed rail may be the new stimulus – a dirty word to conservatives -- in Florida politics.

There were no physical hugs involved this time around, but Scott did quickly embrace the support he got from Haridopolos.

“President Haridopolos recognizes that cost overruns from the project could put Florida taxpayers on the hook, ridership and revenue projections are historically overly optimistic, and if the project becomes too costly for taxpayers and is shut down, the state would have to return the $2.4 billion in federal funds to D.C,” Scott said.

WOULD MILLION AIR RETURN TO ITS GATE?

The skies weren’t friendly, either, for Gov. Scott this week as the chief budget writer in the state Senate said the governor should have checked with lawmakers before he took off with his plan to sell two state airplanes.