Everyone has their own definition of a "do-nothing legislature."
On The Progressive Pulse, liberal blogger Andrea Verykoukis notes her frustration about several bills that didn't make it through the legislature.
Those include suspending executions for two years, creating anti-bullying policies in schools, penalizing people who fail to report lost or stolen guns and requiring permission for minors on social networking sites like MySpace.
On the other hand, Verykoukis says she's glad the legislature did nothing on extending the boundaries for billboard owners to cut trees, cutting tuition breaks for graduates of the N.C. School of Science and Math and holding a referendum to ban gay marriage.
It seems the only worse thing than legislators doing nothing is doing something you don't like.
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Re: A progressive on the "do-nothing" session
One thing the Legislature did this session was to create a new means for increasing ways for big money to influence the process. By creating a structure for legal defense funds for themselves big money can get around the gift ban that was put into law last year. Under current law legislators can not receive gifts from people they regulate, which probably includes almost everyone. That would mean no money for legal fees. By allowing politicians to create a fund and permitting "contributions" they have allowed what couldn't be done previously.