Stupid blockhead Idaho legislature
Via my daily-read UnequivocalNotion, two guides to why the seemingly contradictory pissing match is going on with Idaho, Otter, Republicans, and the tax.
The Statesman gives some recent (2008) history on the machinations…
House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, said the stakes in this latest gas tax debate are so small – just $36 per year for the average driver after 2013, according to the proposal Otter now insists on – that this surely must be about something more than just a tax hike. “This is about the hearts and minds of the Republican Party,” Rusche said
But the real pièce de résistance is this second post which gives it the smell of a Stalinistic purge (albeit without any real blood).
Meanwhile the Republican Party has lost the ability to effectively govern. It is no longer about what might be best for the state of Idaho. They are so consumed with their party war that the people of the state of Idaho are being left out in the cold.
As the Republicans move further to the far right, the ability to craft consensus legislation that serves the people is lost. Instead we get a litany of legislative initiatives that have unintended consequences, cater to the most conservative element of their party, are either unenforceable or represent empty messages instead of good public policy, or provide special interests with benefits at the expense of the people..
