The House and Senate will reconvene this morning at 10:00 A.M. when they will vote on compromise bills (HB 3 & 4). According to legislators, they expect the session to adjourn sine die mid-day to early afternoon. $600,000 later, of course. Thank goodness it’s all over.

Governor Steve Beshear’s statement on the failed special legislative session: “I appreciate the diligent and thoughtful work today – and throughout this session – from my colleagues in the General Assembly. With a spirit of bipartisanship and collaboration, we are close to completing legislation that will maintain funding for much of education and key areas of health care and public safety. We are on the verge of moving forward with a policy agenda that will create jobs across our Commonwealth and stimulate hundreds of millions of dollars in economic investment – precisely the prescription we need during a difficult recession. We still have work to complete on Wednesday, but I am very appreciative of what has been done thus far to move our Commonwealth forward.” In other words (paraphrasing, of course), “EFF ALL Y’ALL WHO DIDN”T FOLLOW MY TELEPATHIC ORDERS!” Persuasion fail. [Press Release]

Alllll kinds of interesting reaction to the latest Mongiardo campaign finance snafu involving a coal lobbyist. You’ll want to peep the comments. [Page One]

Kentucky truly could use a little mystery/entertainment to go with its failure. A dead hooker’s not necessary for the fun! [Barefoot & Progressive]

While everyone is busy and pissy with their blame of David Williams for the failure of the gambling bill, we’re securely footed in reality. And reality has it that this bill failed because Steve Beshear failed. Hard. As Joe Gerth said earlier this week, he was late to the game by nine innings. He jacked around. Didn’t even bother trying to persuade liberal Democrats until two days before the vote. If the horsie and gambling industries want slots legalized, they’re gonna need to do it on their own, clearly without Beshear’s crew. [Ronnie Ellis]

PRAISE JEEBUS! Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth has been expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention for not hating the homosexuals! GLORY BE TO GAWD! Ousted over the mere perception of failing to condemn the fags hard enough. Al Mohler and his fellow self-loathers should be proud of themselves. To think we ever had nice things to say about the gluttonous bigot Al Mohler. Guess it’s time for him to start firing all of his gay staff members, eh? [Faith & Works]

You should see the Twitter feeds of two SBTS big dogs. Dr. Mohler and Dr. Moore. Can’t wait to listen to these two homophobes try to explain their extreme hatred as “religion” the next time they’re at the coffee shop. [here & here]