I've been watching the fallout from the Iowa Values Fund case in the Des Moines Register articles on the 18th and 19th. It's back to the same old/same old, with the democrats refusing to play ball with the replican economic ideas, and the republicans refusing to play ball without them. As far as I see it, though, since the line item veto won't work, Vilsack & Co. are either going to have to come to some kind of compromise, or they'll have to give up the IVF for now. A third alternative for either side is to pay lip service to the IVF but do nothing for the present, intending to save it up for election year ammunition, something along these lines: Dems: We tried to give you the IVF but the Reps bogged it down with unnecessary bills and killed it. Reps: We tried to play nicely with the Dems and give you the IVF, but they won't compromise and their illegal political maneuvering killed it.



Knowing our politicians these days, I predict the latter. Maybe I'm cynical, but it appears there's little interest in actually having a special session and reaching a compromise solution, just posturing.