“Flori-duh.”
Remember when that was a regular Daily Show tag line that referred to hanging chads, voting lines, a gun culture, pet pythons, water chlorination and Rick Scott?
Then add a certain gyrocopter activist.
And this just in. The governor sued the feds over LIP and the Senate sued the House over less than lip service to its lawmaking responsibilities. The Florida Supreme Court agreed that unilaterally adjourning was, indeed, unconstitutional–as well as downright awful–but it was, well, too late to really do anything about it.
This passes for lawmaking in Tallahassee. Another day at the orifice for the asinine state. Another piñata for the Punchline State.
What just happened with the state Legislature, however, is a new low. It truly gives dysfunctional a bad name.
The House flat-out quit the session–and its statewide constituency–and went home. Rather than compromise for the sake of the uninsured working poor, it thumbed its nose at everybody who wasn’t a churlish “Obamacare” antagonist. See you in June to somehow pass a budget.
And rather than mediate–or at least appear to mediate–Gov. Scott was AWOL cutting a Wawa ribbon, opening a carnival ride and planning his next poaching trip to a state with a Democratic governor. Thanks for nothing.
As for the rest of us, we can talk about term limits and jerry-rigged districts or the need for open primaries, multimember districts and campaign finance reform, but the ongoing reality is this. While there are more than 400,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in this state, the Legislature’s GOPsters more than double the Dems–108-52. Turnout matters if voters want to turn out those whose foremost priority is ideological acolytes and fund-raisers–not what’s best for the country’s third-largest state.
Failing that, we will remain “Flori-duh.”