This year’s legislative session was as much about what failed as it was about what became law. Hardly anybody would have predicted that conservative House Republicans would reject mandatory ultrasound exams for abortion-seekers, after the Senate backed it on a nearly party-line vote. But that’s what happened. Supporters, including Sen. Chuck Winder, R-Boise, have pledged to bring the bill back for 2013, in a bid to help persuade women not to terminate their pregnancies. If it passes the next time around, would Gov. Butch Otter sign it? “No comment,” Otter told reporters Friday. Democrats say they aren’t taking any chances. They’ll be pushing a constitutional amendment, aiming for the 2014 ballot, to protect what they call citizens’ rights to refuse government mandated medical procedures/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here. (Katherine Jones Statesman/AP photo: Retiring Senator Shirley McKague (R-Meridian) is tickled by a photo of her at the Senate podium earlier in the session)

Question: Can you name a specific thing that you thought went wrong with the 2012 Legislature?