Three More Years! - Twin

Three More Years! - Twin Cities bloggers Fraters Libertas discuss the latest manifestation of our "senior" senator Mark Dayton's attempts to slalom about both sides of an issue - and crash in the attempt:

Dayton declined to speak at the anti-war event because he said he wouldn’t be in town that day. Then he agreed to speak at a support the troops rally that same day. Then he later agreed to also speak at the anti-war rally (and was turned down). Then he didn’t show up at either of them.

Now that’s what I call getting out in front of an issue! (And then falling under it and getting flattened.)

Here's the part I think is so utterly ironic: the left savaged the man Dayton replaced, Rod Grams for reasons that had little to nothing to do with his legislative accomplishments; his marital problems, his son's hijinx (never mentioning that Grams' ex-wife had had full custody of Morgan Grams for quite some time) - never actually bothering to assail his legislative record, except over high-level stances like abortion and gun control.

Now, we have a "senator" whose personal life is a bigger disaster than Grams', whose legislative record is negligible, and who unlike Grams hasn't even bothered to stake out an actual position on much of anything.

As the Fraters say, we may be approaching a rare moment of agreement in Minnesota politics - left and right agreeing on needing to dump Dayton.

Posted by Mitch at March 30, 2003 08:03 AM