Complete surrender

This press release from Sen. Cathy Stepp is almost unbelievable. She is saying that:

a recent proposal introduced by legislative Democrats signals the minority party's full and unconditional surrender in the war of ideas. The proposal, Assembly Joint Resolution 94, calls for "changes to the state's public school funding formula to be enacted by July 1, 2007." AJR 94 does not contain any actual proposals to fix the public school funding formula, it only calls for unspecified changes.

You mean, as opposed to the Republicans, the party in control that is doing nothing about it? The party that decided the legislative session should be done in March so Rep. John Gard (R-Sun Prairie) can go reacquainted with Northern Wisconsin for his run for Congress? The party that had to be dragged kicking and screaming by Governor Doyle into trying to help a lot of the school children in Milwaukee by expanding the SAGE program to reduce class sizes instead of just helping a few students with the school voucher program this year?

The Democrats are in the minority and don't get to set which bills come up for debate or a vote so they are using the tools that they have at their disposal to try to force a debate.

Senator Stepp also criticizes the Democrats for introducing other proposals that would require action in the next legislative session. What do you expect when the Republicans running this legislative session aren't willing to take on the issues facing the state? Oh wait, we do have a new golf license plate to brag about.

Why isn't Senator Stepp putting out releases calling on her leaders to schedule bills that make changes to the way our state funds education, get more people health care coverage or heck, anything that isn't a constitutional amendment?

Fact is, most people have given up on this legislative session because the leaders have failed in their task to better the state. Most folks are hoping that there will be some new faces in town for the next legislative session that are ready to tackle the big issues facing the state.