Speaker Kurt Zellers has taken a wishy-washy, cowardly stance on the Vikings stadium. Knowing that the stadium is unpopular, Zellers has sought to do everything he can to distance himself and his caucus from the political fallout its inevitable passage. Here’s my personal favorite evasion, from a press conference yesterday:

Zellers said he will not propose his own Vikes stadium bill. “I’m far more focused on a daily basis on how we get jobs back in Minnesota”

Now he’s concerned about how we get jobs back? During the legislative session, he was focused on issues like gay marriage. Even when crafting a plan to balance the budget, Zellers’s caucus proposed a plan that would have cost Minnesota 30,000 jobs. Now that the politically-tricky Vikings stadium is up for debate, he finally cares about jobs? How convenient.