By Elaine S. Povich for Minnesota Reformer When a Republican colleague threatened to read aloud from a two-foot stack of books—including a biblical guide to leadership and a tome by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist—to protest inaction on his bills last week, Missouri state Sen. Rick Brattin quickly took up the cause. Seizing on a chance to hijack the planned schedule, Brattin spoke for about 45 minutes, accusing the leaders of his own Republican Party of ignoring some bills and making things... Read this story at Daily Kos , Reading Eagle
