Some Republican leaders know perfectly well the legislation they are being paid to pass is destructive to the public

We get this interesting by-play in front of a microphone the Republican politicians don't know is turned on:

Republican Iowa State Rep. Jeff Kaufmann, speaker pro tem of the Iowa State House, was caught joking on a hot mic that a proposal which would allow state residents to carry weapons in public without permission from a sheriff and without any training or a background check might better be called the "give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic-bill."

The Des Moines Register reports that the comment was caught on video during a discussion of House Study bill 219, the so-called "Alaska carry" legislation after a similar law in Alaska.

As the members discuss pulling Rep. Ron Jorgenson from leading debate on a controversial union collective bargaining bill, Rep. Erik Helland, jokes that he's going to get stuck carrying the bill because he's the "dirty hatchet man for the caucus" because he's "expendable."

When another lawmaker asks what the "Alaska carry" bill is, Kaufmann helpfully explains that it is "the crazy, give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic bill" before someone informs them that the microphone is on.

That's the thing about Republican politicians. They are bought by special interests, in this case the NRA. The guys making those statements know perfectly well they would not be doing the jobs they are presently doing if they did not have the NRA money and support. So they give the NRA what it demands no matter who gets hurt.

How can you tell a Republican politician is lying? He's a Republican, his lips are moving, and he knows the microphone is turned on so that the public can hear what he says.