and Matt Tully remains a tool of the Left.

Mr. Tully, Mr. Tully, Mr. Tully. Where should I start?

Oh, that's right. I already wrote about that.

Matt Tully takes up a couple of front page columns this morning in the Indy Star with an editorializing rant against common sense -- which is not surprising because he doesn't have any to begin with.

The legislature meets in two sessions every two years. The sessions are 30 and 61 days long. This means that every 730 days the legislature is actually in session only 91.

Does Tully really mean to suggest that for 639 days every two years our legislators are not accessible to the public? Most of them are business people or farmers or what have you. They are out and about in public and certainly it would not be unreasonable to walk up to one in the local diner and buttonhole him or her in person. Or one could write a letter, or send an email, or call their office. Or write letters to the editor of the local paper. Or blog.

You may wonder why, in all the furore over Occupy Wall Street and its misbegotten spawn, including the disruption here last year in our own hallowed halls of misgovernment, there was no attempt to Occupy The U.S. Capitol. As an intellectual exercise, let's think for a moment what would happen if you tried to "occupy" Congress so that you could "access" your Congresscritter. My best guess is that first you would have to go through the metal detectors and hand over anything pointy or blunt or open and fizzing. Tully grouses about this, of course, and thinks that it is odd that you get your open can of Dr. Pepper confiscated but can buy a pop from the machines in the building.

Er, Matt. There's a reason for that. Same reason they do this in the airports. What if that can contains something that isn't necessarily drinkable? Like paint. Or acid. Or gasoline. You can't see through the aluminum can. And instead of simply asking you to take a sip (which would be considered profiling, I suppose), they simply confiscate it. It has nothing to do with the can of pop per se, which is why you can buy a fresh can once you clear security. Once again, Matt proves that common sense isn't.

My best second guess is that after you were divested of anything that might be dangerous and were admitted to the building, you'd probably be arrested and removed by the Capitol Police if you started acting like an asshole.

This assumes of course that you could even get into the Capitol without being part of an organized tour group. Because you can't. You have to go to the Visitor's Center on the east side of the building and get a ticket for a scheduled tour. If you want to sit in the visitor's gallery while Congress is in session, you have to vist your Congresscritter or Senileator's office (which is typically NOT in the Capitol Building, but in an office building elsewhere in the area) to get a ticket. Nobody is allowed to simply walk in and loiter anymore. Does Tully believe that this policy is also a stifling of public opinion? If he does, he doesn't mention it.

Anyway, the rest of the front-page editorial isn't worth the powder to set it on fire. Suffice it to say that Tully is just one of the Perrenially Indignant who thinks people ought to be able to wander wherever they want at will in the Statehouse, but who would be upset if random people chose to do the same in his office or in his home. Hmm, anybody know where Tully lives?

And of course he interviews a spokeswoman for Communist, er, Common Cause, who says, "If we have to sue to get this thing turned around, then that's what we're going to have to do."

Sue and be damned, bitch.

UPDATE: Bobbi has some good thoughts. I hadn't considered moving the session to a larger (and more spectator-friendly) venue.