Although in a substantial minority, Kurt Zellers and the House Republicans have come out with an aggressive pro-growth platform in the first days of the 2010 legislative session. In stark contrast to the same old spending advocated by the DFL majority, the message is clear—we want more jobs and a more business friendly environment—now. This release from MNGOP today points to a fighting minority that is on the side of business and the will of the people.
House Republicans this afternoon on the House floor jumped out in front of DFLers who are fast-tracking a nearly $1 billion capital projects bill.
House Republicans, who hold a 47-vote minority to the DFLer’s 87-vote majority, tried to suspend the rules of the House in order to take up a bill that would phase-out the state’s corporate income tax over a period of 10 years. The bill is sponsored by Minority Leader Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove.
Rep. Laura Brod, R-New Prague, said lowering businesses’ costs would help get people back to work faster than the proposed bonding bill that borrows money to pay for construction projects.
Years ago, my uncle taught me what's now an old saying. The saying goes like this: "There's no sense making anything idiot-proof. They'll just build a better idiot." That appears to be the case with the Twin Cities media scene.
For years, bloggers like Mitch Berg and John Hinderaker have ridiculed Nick Coleman with their dissections of his mentally incoherent columns. Many is the time I've enjoyed watching these talented bloggers turn Nick Coleman's writings into examples of deranged liberal incompetence.
At first, this report from the Las Vegas Sun sounds as though conservatives have mostly won the fight against Big Labor to keep the Obama administration from stripping the secret ballot from organizing elections. They pushed hard on ObamaCare and appear to have lost that battle. No one in Congress has touched the Card Check bill as people grow more angry over employment losses. Unions themselves have slipped in standing with the American electorate to their lowest level of support ever recorded. With their political power waning, conservatives have focused more on the ObamaCare debate and the lack of action by Democrats on the economy.
However, deeper within this report lies a new strategy by the unions to use the latter to get its Card Check legislation out of Congress (emphasis mine):
Saw this on CBS News [Thursday] night and I thought it was a pretty fair report. Of course I may be biased because they used our youTube video. But you have to give credit where credit is due. Everyone should go here and leave a favorable comment.
