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Engler Concerned GOP Senate Colleagues Will Be Extra Insane This Year
Senate Majority Leader Kevin Engler [R-Farmington] also is bracing for trouble. Eight of the 10 senators term-limited in 2010 are Republicans. Of the 10 additional senators term-limited in 2012, seven of them also are Republicans.
"Over half my majority is term-limited, and most of them aren't running for higher office, so they have no responsibility to the voters," said Engler, R-Farmington. "Some things that would be tempered before will not be tempered now, because their objective is, 'So what? You sure don't care what the public thinks. I can kill everything if I want, because I'm not up for election."
The idea of Republican Senators being even less "tempered" in their obstructionism and extremism gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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- Outrage with AIG is overflowing. Russ Carnahan and others are pushing legislation to recoup bonuses from bailout firms. [Post-Dispatch] [CNN][CQ]
- Treasurer Zweifel struck a deal with bankers to increase the interest rate banks pay for state time deposits. Under the agreement, banks would gradually phase in the payment of competitive interest rates for state deposits. At the same time, the state’s linked deposit program, which loans money through local banks at low interest to small businesses, will grow to serve companies of 100 or fewer employees. [Daily Tribune]
- According to the NY Times, MO wins the ready & rearing shovel award for making the 1st stimulus project in the nation happen but is only 18th in terms of sway in Congress [NY Times] [Beacon] [Roll Call]
- The PD slammed the GOP leadership (again) for putting ideology before families (again). "You might expect that staggering growth to inspire a sense of urgency in Jefferson City. Instead, state legislators spent the past weeks spewing hopelessly out-of-touch political rhetoric." [Post-Dispatch]
