Thursday, April 15, 2010

Profiles in courage

When the going gets tough, hide your vulnerables to keep them from voting.

Rep. Ann Hraychuck, D-Balsam Lake, was noticeably absent this morning at the executive session of the Assembly's Special Committee on Clean Energy Jobs, which met to vote on the sweeping energy conservation proposal.

Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison and the co-chair of the committee, said Hraychuck was removed following requests from Republicans that the panel was too Dem-dominated. Without Hraychuck, there are six Democrats on the committee and three Republicans.

Yeah, sure. The Republicans demanded that one Democrat on a 7-3 committee be removed just prior to the party-line vote that'll move the bill out of committee. Because that'll swing the outcome.

Maybe an even smarter idea would've been to keep Hraychuck off the committee in the first place. The Democrats could learn a lesson from how effectively the AssGOP hid Brett Davis all those years. And what a treat we've gotten for that - we get to watch a bright and thoughtful legislator like Davis whore himself out to the teabaggers so he can beat out Dave Ross and a dowdy-looking mash-up of Sarah Palin and a middle-aged Strawberry Shortcake.

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