Tilley and Republicans Big “Political Losers” in Stalled Special Session

The St. Louis American’s Political Eye has some pretty astute observations about the hot mess that is the 2011 special session. Infighting has put House Speaker Steve Tilley and his fellow Republicans on shaky political ground. The Eye has more: 

Every Democrat in Missouri was just handed a tremendous campaign advantage in 2012: look at these Republicans; all they care about is business and they control both houses of the Legislature overwhelmingly and they still couldn’t get an economic development bill passed – twice! They messed it up once in the general session, and then after promising the governor they had reached an agreement and spurring him to call them back to a special session, they still couldn’t get it done.

It’s a humiliating failure by Republican legislators, and by all rights it should lead to substantial losses in 2012. Democrats have a long way to go towards taking back control of either chamber, but Republicans just made it much easier for them to start winning back some ground.