Did hell just freeze over? Speaker of the House, Terrence Carroll, appoints Mike Merrifield to continue at the helm of the House Education Committee.

With the infamous Merrifield authored email-- "there must be a special place in hell for those Privatizers, Charterizers, and Voucherizers! They deserve it!" --Merrifield had a seating arrangement in mind for pro-school choice supporter Rep. Carroll too.

In 2007 Carroll was outraged with Merrifield's unprofessional remarks and told the Rocky Mountain News that "Merrifield's comments reflected a larger agenda to gut charter schools."

Merrifield resigned his chairmanship for the remainder of the 2007 season and Carroll continued his advocacy for parental rights in education.

How quickly we forget.

Merrifield was reinstated as chairman of the committee in 2008 under the leadership of Andrew Romanoff. And now Mr. Charterizer Terrance Carroll himself has decided to keep Merrifield in this position.

It brings to mind a certain definition of insanity-- " Do not do the same thing over and over and expect a different result."

As a liberal conservative Carroll fan I am not sure if I should start with penning him a letter requesting an explanation, or churn out my disappointment to Merrifield by asking if he has switched religion to travel along in a handbasket?

I am stalking my news stations tonight in hopes of a personal appearance, explanation and redemption by Carroll.

I doubt Merrifield has the charisma to pull off a well written lipstick speech to gain support from those of us who vote pro-education. I hope he proves me wrong.