Governor LePage's Double Top-Secret Plan

So yesterday news leaked out of the Governor when speaking to a meeting of Republican legislators on Wednesday stated that he would be calling back the legislature to a special session to attempt to force through a special bill that he said would be " divisive and partisan." Further he stated that that if Democrats " hated him now, wait until they see what he does next."

Let the speculation begin. What secret might the Governor have. That he hates public employees. That he wants to cheat people out of their state pensions. Or that he would like to step on the neck of unions by limiting collective bargaining rights. These are all likely scenarios.

The first thing we should note is this. That the same Republicans who will be appearing like a lap dog at his special session are the same ones who could not be bothered to appear at a special meeting to vote on the Governor's line item veto of a budget provision they negotiated in supposed good faith with Democrats a few months ago. Anyone expecting Democrats to trust anything their counterparts do or say in the upcoming session should have their head examined.

Why now. It might well be another example of Governor LePage going for broke. He has not been on the national news for a couple of weeks, certainly he would like to correct that. My guess would be that he has to have a concern about, in a Presidential election year, turnout for Obama at the top, tipping his majority in the state legislature into the hands of the Democrats. Clearly should he lose that majority any chance he would have to succeed in his plans would be gone.

That said, Republican members of the State Senate and House do have to get elected in November. It remains to be seen if LePage can get enough support for something extremely radical to pass right before the election.

If nothing else it shows that LePage is a true believer. What remains to be seen is how much his puppy dogs will follow along should he ask them to do something that might cause them to risk their own seats.

The best thing about the coming election is that it will start the clock on replacing LePage in two years. Who would have ever thought that we would be saddled with one of these ridiculous nutjob Governors. It really boggles the mind that it has come to this.