We’ve had a few posts here at The Hayride in the past week – one by Nathan Koenig, a couple by M. Fulton Robicheaux, and one I wrote – discussing the poor behavior by Democrats in the Louisiana legislature who haven’t fully processed the fact that they’ve lost power and are now discredited by the state’s voters.

Rep. Denise Marcelle’s antics last week in the House Local and Municipal Affairs Committee, where she found herself on a hot mic saying she was going to “kill this bitch” in reference to a bill by Rep. Kellee Dickerson (as Robicheaux noted, we assume but are not completely sure that Marcelle was talking about Dickerson’s bill rather than Dickerson herself), should already have created some consequences for her. As in, she should have been stripped from committee assignments and censured.

But she hasn’t been, and in fact Marcelle’s efforts to “kill that bitch” – which happened to be a bill that would have stopped Louisiana taxpayer dollars from funding the communist and sex-grooming American Library Association, something that would have certainly passed on the floor of both the House and Senate – have so far paid off.

This is not how it’s supposed to work. This is not the way a supermajority is supposed to function.

When Democrats have less than a third of the membership in either house of the Louisiana legislature, they should be made to recognize that if they want collegiality they’re going to have to be collegial. “Kill this bitch” means that ultimately you’re the bitch who gets killed.

And so what should happen going forward is that every time a bill brought by a Democrat gets a hearing in committee – if it ever does, because those bills ought to be held back until the last couple of committee hearings of a legislative session unless they can be scheduled to insure their authors have to leave their own committees to push bills across the marble (I’ll explain that in a second) – there ought to be an immediate question asked by some Republican on the committee which goes like this:

“Who is the Republican co-sponsor of this bill?”

And if the answer is that the bill doesn’t have a Republican co-sponsor, then some Republican on the committee should do exactly as Marcelle did, which is to say something like:

“Mr. Chairman, when appropriate I’d like to move that this bill be involuntarily deferred.”

And then every Republican on the committee, meaning a majority of the committee, because in a supermajority of Republicans there are necessarily no committees with a Democrat majority, would vote “yes” on the motion to defer the bill.

Kill every last piece of legislation they bring unless they can get Republican co-sponsors. Which puts them in a subservient position and teaches them bipartisanship.

This is pretty close to what’s happening now, but there are exceptions and there shouldn’t be any. For example, the Department of Insurance for some reason gave Rep. Mandie Landry, who insulted her colleagues by calling them a bunch of rich white men who are therefore out of touch with the people of the state (there is nobody more out of touch with the people of Louisiana than the Georgetown-educated leftist Abortion Barbie Mandie Landry), a couple of bills to carry, and those have made it to the Senate.

Those bills ought to die, unless a Republican co-sponsor is added. And in the future it ought to be understood that the “department bills” asked for by the heads of the state agencies should go through Republicans.

What’s more, the Democrat appropriations ought to be sharply curtailed. There shouldn’t be pork spending in Democrat districts. Not without Democrats selling their souls to get it. What pork the state of Louisiana will dole out in its budget should go first, foremost and even possibly exclusively to Republican districts.

Why? So that Democrat voters are made to understand that their elected legislators are utterly ineffective and therefore useless to them.

I’ll give you an example of why we’re having this discussion. There is a freshman state representative from Lafayette, District 44 to be specific, by the name of Tehmi Jahi Chaisson. He’s the successor to Vincent Pierre, who used to chair the Legislative Black Caucus. Chaisson is interesting, in that he was a pharmacist who worked at Walmart and apparently won some awards for proficiency in his craft, and he was nonetheless caught up in a big layoff of Walmart pharmacists a few years ago. So he shifted gears and started a roofing and construction company, and before long he was doing so well with that business that when Walmart came back and tried to rehire him he told them no. Now he’s also got a real estate business.

Every lobbyist at the Capitol will tell you that Tehmi Chaisson is a Republican in every way that matters, but he has to put a “D” next to his name or else he’s unelectable in that district.

The way you could flip a Chaisson to Republican is if you can convince his voters that they’d be better off with him as an “R,” because he won’t be able to get anything done at all as a “D” – and what’s more, if they vote him out for being an “R,” the “D” who replaces him will get less done.

That’s why you squeeze the Democrats. This is a straight political power play. And it’s justified, because if they want to sling epithets and start fights then showing them who’s boss is the correct response.

As for the “across the marble” reference made above, here’s a story: the Judiciary A Committee in the Senate has four Republicans and three Democrats, which was a stupid mistake by Senate President Cameron Henry in staffing it. When his body is 28 Republicans and 11 Democrats, there should never be a committee with a 4-3 split. They should all be 5-2 or 6-1 if they’re going to have seven members.

But last week that 4-3 committee functioned as a majority-Democrat committee, because the Republicans on it were pulled across the marble to the House, where they had bills of theirs being heard in House committees. That meant the Democrats had 3-1 and 3-2 majorities for votes on Republican bills being heard in Jud A and they were able to kill several of them.

That should never be allowed to happen to Republicans. It should happen to Democrats all the time. They should know that when they bring a bill, unless that bill is sent to a committee they’re a member of they can expect that they’re going to have those bills called at the same time an important Republican bill would come through their committee.

It isn’t all that hard to schedule this stuff for maximum effect, and that’s the way it ought to be done if an effective supermajority is to be executed.

Believe me, this is how Democrats handle things in blue states.

It’s how it’s been handled at times in Louisiana. For example, there is such a thing as the “Seabaugh rule” in the Louisiana legislature, and that rule is that no Democrat bills get out of committees Sen. Alan Seabaugh is a member of (Seabaugh is known for getting all the Republicans together to kill the Democrat bills). In the last legislative term then-House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, who was in bed with the Democrats from the very beginning, threw Seabaugh off the House Labor Committee in order to break up the Seabaugh rule.

We should be past the Clay Schexnayders of the world. And the results should reflect that.

Today’s Democrat Party is about chemically castrating, with puberty blockers, the kids they can’t kill in the womb. They’re about destroying our economy in the name of “saving the planet” while China builds coal-fired power plants on every street corner. They’re about coddling Hamas terrorists and their Iranian paymasters. They prefer illegal immigrants to American citizens. And they’re for prosecuting their political opponents in kangaroo courts.

Why on earth would you treat these people as anything but enemies? And why would you think your kindnesses would be rewarded by people like Denise Marcelle?

Wake up. The people have given you political power in the form of supermajorities in both houses and a governor with a mandate. Use it. Sweep the opposition to the side where they belong and make this the red state its voters demand.