Nothing There
By Mitch Berg
Budgets.
Mark Dayton has one. It involves scraping money out of “the rich” (more this noon) and a lot of fiction about money the state can save on contractors and what it can squeeze out of “snowbirds” (which will cost the state more in legal fees than it will ever take in), but it’s a “budget”.
The GOP will release a budget. The DFL, per its usual mode, is yapping and cavorting around demanding the budget now. There’s no reason for that, of course – the GOP can afford to let Dayton take a few punches (from everyone, apparently, but the media) and come out with a budget in plenty of time for the statutory end of the session. It’ll be mostly cuts; it could include some allowances for new revenue (hint to the GOP; think “hold the line”), but it’ll be a responsble, sane, sober budget.
The DFL in the Legislature?
Oh, what do you think?
The car is rolling, but nobody is at the wheel. These people truly have no concept of what being the minority is.
March 1st, 2011 at 9:15 am
This is the kind of cynical game playing I deplore the Sorosphere for, Mitch.
We don’t need the Party of Scrubs to put out a budget that doesn’t have an ice cube’s chance in hell of being considered. Gov. JimBeam put one out and they’re holding it at arms length out the window.
And we don’t need to play this game with them while they asshat dance in pee pants either. They’ll get the GOP budget when it’s ready to be released; until then, they can squirt tears on AM950, and in the St’rickle all they want.
End of story.
March 1st, 2011 at 11:50 am
Have the DFLers booked rooms in Hudson, yet?
March 1st, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Somewhat on topic — The animated version of “Animal Farm” is available for free viewing on hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/139115/animal-farm