Things don't always come to pass. For example, the Wisconsin cat killing proposal failed. And the Texas bawdy cheerleaders proposal isn't going anywhere, either. And in Missouri, the most pro-life state of the union, new pro-life legislation didn't get through:
``I am profoundly disappointed in the leaders of Missouri Right to Life for their efforts to defeat two good pro-life bills that would have become the law and protected the lives of unborn children but for the group's tragic and bizarre tactic of working against pro-life legislation,''[Governor] Blunt said in a statement announcing the special session.
Anti-abortion lawmakers claim 128 of the 162 House seats and 28 of the 34 Senate seats.
``We have the largest pro-life bipartisan majority ever elected, and they could not get pro-life legislation through, and this to me is attributable to Governor Blunt,'' Missouri Right to Life President Pam Fichter declared.
Anti-abortion groups asserted the failed legislation did not go far enough in its abortion restrictions. A broader bill previously passed in the Senate had been pared back in a House committee at Blunt's urging; a separate House-passed bill was similarly scaled back in a Senate Committee.
Blunt said he intervened because the bills had stalled - and he expressed concerns about a provision that he feared could negatively affect stem cell research.
This Missouri case is especially interesting: first cracks in the wingnut solidarity. Maybe we can help them along?