Some asinine positions taken by most of the Republican-dominated Missouri General Assembly got resolved this year, when lawmakers agreed to collect online sales tax, raise the gas tax and approve a statewide prescription drug monitoring program. Before patting the GOP on the back for those long-overdue advances, Missourians should not forget the GOP often ignores statewide public votes, with the most recent being this year’s rejection of a constitutional amendment to expand Medicaid on the pretext that doing so would be unconstitutional. This headlong lunge toward legislative misfeasance qualifies as asinine and arrogant. Who do knuckle-dragging lawmakers think they are to override the will of voters? More importantly, do they think voters are idiots? “Progressive” Missouri this year became the last state to collect online sales tax after being advised for a decade that doing so would be legal. Even so, GOP lawmakers continued to reject collecting the tax for three years after the U…