Saturday, February 7, 2015

Gun Theater

The way politics works is that when a bill in one house has no chance of passage in the other, opponents of the bill in the first house can support it at no cost.

Case in point is SB 175 which would repeal the standard capacity magazine ban here. A similar bill was put forward in the Dem controlled house, and was promptly shuffled off to he kill committee by the very liberal house speaker. As Republicans control the Senate, the bill will not only pass, it will do so with the support of some Dems who represent uncomfortably purple districts. This is allowed because the Dem senate leadership knows what will happen to the bill once it reaches the House.

Split legislatures allow everybody to pretend to be bipartisan while actually doing nothing.

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