Legislative Limerick No. 5: Sausage-making under a barrage of darts

With bumpy course followed by the House this morning – on what’s scheduled to be the next-to-last day of the legislative session, the House got through only one bill this morning – House Speaker Scott Bedke said, “This is to be expected at the end of the session, and I don’t know why, but I think it might be human nature.”

Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis asked the Senate for patience this morning, saying there will be some “hurry-up-and-wait-mode.” Davis said, “This is the time of year that it’s pretty easy to say that we’re all good and they’re all rascals, and vice versa. … If you’ll help me be patient, because that’s not something I’m always very good at at the end of the year, I’d appreciate it.”

Lewiston Tribune reporter Bill Spence wrote a column this week , headlined, “Idaho Legislature moves toward a bruising finish,” that said, “The roller derby days of the session are upon us. We see it every year around this time: the staid deliberations of January and February replaced by whiplash hearings and boomerang bills, legislators bashing and crashing as they rush to meet their self-imposed adjournment deadline.”

So here’s a limerick on the late-session atmosphere in the Statehouse:

Now come the big fits and starts

As lawmakers try to fit parts

Each sausage link

Could still face some kink

And some will still want to throw darts.