Playground-like insults pepper post-legislative dialogue

There’s a schoolyard showdown happening and the battleground has been the opinion pages of this and most other newspapers in North Dakota.

On one side of the playground are the Democrats, complaining that seemingly every bill passed in the 2013 legislative session was the worst thing that ever happened in North Dakota.

Rebutting those claims and puffing their chests are Republicans, convinced that everything their supermajority did between January and May was in the best interest of North Dakotans while the Democrats are just sore losers.

Sometimes, children — even the really big ones — just can’t get along.

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