I think the politicians will accomplish some things, but the most important initiative we need to do in Missouri and Illinois is reduce conservative Republicans to a small minority so we can achieve public progress and stop right-wing domestic terrorism!

Hopefully not.

How do you know when a politican is lying? Their mouth is moving. HAHAHAHA Like Bill said, lets hope nothing gets done.

Do they ever accomplish much? Maybe after the session we’ll have a new law keeping “under god” in the pledge, or other such nonsense. Maybe they will make new laws restricting my personal freedom due to “internet harrassment” of a teenager.

Other than fixing the personal property/real estate tax mess, I hope they don’t do anything this year.

They need to get the Hancock Amendment to kick in on local governments. No problem for them to get their 5%; these 33% increases are ridiculous.

Let’s look at some of the prefiled bills in Missouri.

Hmmm…one making AD and BC the state norm. Are there really any state documents that are written referencing dates 2000+ years ago where BC would even be an issue? (SB 716 Loudon)

I always love any bill that designates an official state “something”. And not to be failed, HB 1416 (Nance) attempts to make the morel the official mushroom of the state of Missouri. Now if we could only get a companion license plate!

No, why would anythinhg get done that is not a politicians job…they are only there to lie, take the perks and point the finger at the other lying politicians.

Nothing will get done until Governor Rod is out of office. The people need to impeach him and have the Lt. Governor take over. The State of Illinois Senate and the State of Illinois House should start impeachment proceedings on Wednesday. The Governor is tearing Illinois apart. Next, they need to stop allowing illegal aliens to work in Illinois. The need to follow the United States Constituation and uphold the law. Illinois is a sanctuary state and Chicago area is a sanctuary area. I don’t care what a person’s nationality is, they need to be here legally. All employers who hire illegals need to have their license to do business taken away, then they need to be fined, to halp pay the Illinois back for all the trouble and expense that they cause the legal taxpayers. Stop giving free healthcare to illegals. For heavens sake, stop any further talk of Obama and Durbins “Dream Act”….it’s a nightmare….

Well, there is nothing on the horizon that indicates they will do anything differently this year than they have for the last fifty. And they get raises, which they decide the amount of, anyway. Why should they have to do anything productive, and non-self serving? WE should be doing something. WE should insist that they no longer be the ones to vote pay increases for themselves. What a ridiculous system that is. Funny, they don’t do anything but mumble if you write them a polite letter about such things. The world laughs at us because we are trying to foist OUR broken system off on others. I suspect our maker is grinning too.

Can we give them a little credit this year? I’m sure there is a stretch of interstate somewhere that will get a ceremonial name attached to it.