I think the Missouri State Senate’s leader has had enough of extremism:
“The beginning of the 2024 legislative session in the Senate has been nothing short of an embarrassment,” Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, said Tuesday, flanked by 14 fellow Republican senators. “A chamber designed to be occupied with civil, principled statesmen and women has been overtaken by a small group of swamp creatures, who all too often remind me more of my children than my colleagues.” [St. Louis Public Radio]
Calling your colleagues children, especially those purporting to be of your own party, suggests just how far the Missouri Republican Party has fallen from the realm of acceptability, and just how far the responsible voters have to go before they are sending acceptable Republicans to the State Legislature.
