Political Groundhog’s Day Syndrome: When a group of “Roadkillers” calls for reforms, and when they climb out of their hole, some of them aren’t afraid of their shadow, but the rest run back in…four more weeks of session.

Loyalist: An elected official who on occasion votes against their core beliefs for the advancement of some group’s ancient concepts.

Traitor: An elected official who votes with a new or different group’s sustainable ideas for fiscal stability.

Courage: The manifestation of doing what you talk about, what you think is correct, even when it means voting against the “group think” of your present “group”.

Rebel: See “Traitor” above.

Denial: When a group is a few votes short of majority and still collectively thinks it runs the place.

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