Editorial: Missouri Speaker's legacy: It's El Rushbo's House now
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On Monday, when the latest speaker of the House, Republican Steve Tilley of Perryville, closed the House chambers to the public while inducting talk-radio personality Rush Limbaugh into the same hall that contains a bust of Mr. Twain, a quotation from Mr. Twain's autobiography came to mind:
"To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals."
Mr. Tilley presides over a decidedly partisan House controlled by enough Republicans to render Democrats superfluous. The results have been devastating. Bills that many people in Mr. Tilley's party not long ago would have considered fringe proposals are passing handily. Democrats' and moderates' proposals are safely tucked away in the speaker's desk, never to see the light of day.
That Mr. Tilley would sell his soul to Mr. Limbaugh, and offer a place in the Capitol rotunda for his likeness is hardly surprising. In fact, it's oddly appropriate; history will record that under Mr. Tilley's watch, the discourse in the House has not been too different from the sort of bile that is a regular feature of Mr. Limbaugh's show. Still, no House member has yet publicly called a woman a 'slut," as Mr. Limbaugh did in March.
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