AC Kleinheider, affixed and blogging over at the Nashville Post, reports on some procedural tomfoolery in the Tennessee House of Representatives today.

While the issue of SJR127 (the bill to amend the Tennessee Constitution to un-protect abortion) was being addressed, Representative Odom (Speaker Naifeh’s Democrat nemesis) brought forward a motion to amend the House schedule. Representative Dunn then moved to amend that motion to also bring up SJR127 for its first of the required three readings. Speaker Naifeh then called Dunn’s motion out of order.

The House voted, and by one vote, declared that it was Naifeh, not Dunn, who was out of order.

After a recess and some leadership wrangling, Dunn’s motion won out. A further effort to skip the committee process and bring SJR127 straight to the House floor failed

The two-thirds majority required to bring the resolution to the floor bypassing the committee process was not reached. SJR 127 was not brought to the floor for a vote.

Rep. Moore then called for a moment of prayer and silence for “what just went on here today.” Republican Glen Casada praised the motion and the events of the day as a true expression of representative democracy.

A moment of prayer and silence? I hate to call a Moore out, but grow some more skin. That is, unless the moment of silence extends only to House Democrats and lasts throughout the session - then, and only then, count me in.