To Be Announced...

The QC Times has a story this morning announcing that the "fair share" bill in the Iowa legislature may be dead.

Next week is the so-called "funnel week" when bills not out of committee aren't allowed to be voted on by the legislature. I prefer the term meat grinder because this legislation in particular should be ground up into tiny bits, jammed into some casing, and force fed to an animal and eventually used as the fertilizer that it is.

But let me be clear about a couple of things...

Just like the national Democrat party, it appears that the state Dems don't have a spine when it comes to following through on their crazy ideas. This idea was only campaigned on - in the sense that it even was a part of a campaign - AFTER the election in November. Senate Majority leader Mike Gronstal was first to bring it up on an Iowa Press program after Dems swept into power. Nowhere can I find an incident where it was discussed by any Democrat prior to the election.

Since it was kind of "snuck in" to the list of things Dems wanted to do once they found out they won the election...I imagine they'll try the same thing with the actual legislation. They won't actually have success, but they'll try.

Iowa Legislature: Fair-share bill appears dead

Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy, D-Dubuque, is not predicting whether House Democrats have the votes to pass the current fair-share proposal.

“We’ll have to wait and evaluate that,” Murphy said. “The big part is we won’t be taking up bills if we don’t have the votes.”

But behind the scenes, Rep. Bob Kressig, D-Cedar Falls, said he’s been told by leadership the fair-share proposal is dead.

“It’s not going anywhere,” Kressig said. “They don’t have support.”

And rest assured...politicians won't do anything if they don't think they can win. For Democrats in particular because they know their margin of power and control is razor thin.

Chris Rants is still wary though...

The Legislature’s biggest opponent of fair share, House Minority Leader Christopher Rants, R-Sioux City, doesn’t think the bill is dead.

“They must have some secret plan to try to roll this thing out again when the public’s not looking,” Rants said.

He thinks many Democrats, under pressure from unions, are reluctant to talk about the issue because “they know it’s wrong.”

“But they’re getting their arms twisted to the point that they’re about to break and fall off,” Rants said.

Sometimes I wish Democrats and Republicans would actually go through with a vote on this kind of stuff...even if they know it will fail. They do enough polling of regular Americans like us, it's time we had some way of finding out where they stand.

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