A masterful bit of political manipulation, where a democratic-backed governor and a majority in the legislature are quibbling over the arrangement of the deck chairs, and a handful of actual democrats are down in steerage trying to figure out a way to stop the engine, since they can't get to the controls to turn the rudder away from the iceberg---Knowing full well they'll be blamed for trying to do anything.

And the band plays on:  Guns, Gawd, Gays, and Global Warming denial...