The Bride of TABOR has a child

The Bride of TABOR had a child yesterday when Rep. Jeff Wood introduced yet another version of the so-called Taxpayer Protection Amendment (TPA). And just like people always tell a parent to their face that their baby is cute but privately joke about how strange looking it is, many supporters of TABOR-like amendments to the constitution will probably cheer for the new version of the TPA and then privately lament about details of it.

Or perhaps this time they will publicly tell Rep. Jeff Wood just how ugly this thing is since the arrogance of the author seems to have hit a new high. Rep. Jeff Wood introduced the latest version of the TPA just yesterday afternoon and is now insisting that his committee members vote on it TODAY. He doesn't think his colleagues need or deserve even a full day to consider whether or not they support a radial change to the constitution that is pages and pages long.

Wood's response to his critics according the Wisconsin State Journal:

"We've made fairly significant changes but we haven't changed the goal or the intent of the legislation," Wood said. It'll pass (the committee vote)."

Wood's "trust me" attitude must have all the reassurance of sleazy used car salesman to his colleagues right now. You can almost see him trying to sell his colleagues a car without an engine by trying to get them to buy it without letting them look under the hood.

Never mind that the last version Wood introduced did things the author didn't even know it did. And not good things. Things that made local elected officials call and complain to state legislators. State legislators that need the support of local elected officials to win re-election in less than a year.

This child might end up an orphan pretty fast.