…how the media would treat a Republican lawmaker who’d accomplished less in 14 years than Betty McCollum?
“Empty Suit”? “Waste of a Chair?” I mean, just think of all the things they said about Rod Grams, who accomplished more in eight years than Saint Paul Wellstone did in 12.
But it’s Betty McCollum whose toenails the Strib’s Allison Sherry has been given the job to paint. And so McCollum’s decades of indolence are described thus:
McCollum, an understated lawmaker who got her political start on the North St. Paul City Council,
She’s “understated”.
Hm.
After 14 years in office, her signature accomplishment? Attacking National Guards advertisements at NASCAR events that cost less per year than building a block and a half of the Central Corridor train line and money pit that she tirelessly championed. Less than an eighth of the money she helped dragoon the government into spending on the Union Depot. Less than the proverbial fart in the wind compared with the Obamacare debacle she saddled us with (but can’t defend to save her life, without lying)?
Understated.
If a Democrat pushed someone off the High Bridge to their death, the media would describe the victim as “damp”.
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