The Dayton Dustbowl: Welcome To Mark Dayton’s Minnesota

I gotta confess, when I hatched the “Dayton Dust Bowl” idea way back last fall, I had no idea it would catch on like this.

But then, I didn’t think Minnesotans were dumb enough to elect a governor whose entire platform was “killing dynamism and growth in Minnesota” and “going back to the seventies”.

But Minnesotans surprised me – not in a good way – and so here we are, having serious discussions about raising taxes during a crippling recession after the idea of “raising taxes during a recession” has gone 0 for 300 worldwide in the past 200 years or so.

The Minnesota Majority, thankfully, is on the case. About an hour ago, they rolled out…

…the Dayton Soup Truck!

From MNMaj’s press advisory:

“Soup Truck” Launched in Response to Dayton’s Job-Killing Taxation Proposals.

Aims to inform Minnesotans and help them prepare for tough economic times ahead.

Coming soon to a bread line near you.

Unless the GOP wins the budget battle this session, of course.

Coming soon

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April 19, 2011

Dayton Dustbowl, MN Legislature, The Incredible Shrinking Governor

Mitch Berg

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20 responses to “The Dayton Dustbowl: Welcome To Mark Dayton’s Minnesota”

bosshoss429

April 19, 2011

Minnesota Majority better be careful! Before you know it, there will be throngs of entitled left wing parasites chasing it to get their free soup!
Mitch Berg

April 19, 2011

And the budget will call for a baseline soup supply that will increase 22% a year.
Kermit

April 19, 2011

Good God, man. Minnesotans surprised me? Really? After we elected that clown Al Franken to the Senate? Minnesota is at least 50% brain dead, and several of the worst examples claim to be your “friend”, Mitch.
Kirien

April 19, 2011

So, Mitch, youargued that on the local Fox television affiliate that the reason the tea party rally a few days ago had such a low turnout was because of poor weather and the lack of a keynote speaker. And yet curiously the South Carolina tea party rally had an equally paltry turnout despite having warmer weather and Congresswoman Bachmann as its keynote speaker. My advice to you is that if you have to lie and spout inanities to defend your position and your supposed principles then they’re not worth defending.

Oh and also…if you have to insult your opponents as you and your friends do here, Mr. Berg, then you’re admitting your position is indefensible. There used to be a time when the Republicans were a party of honor and intelligence and morality. Apparently that time died with Reagan.
K-Rod

April 19, 2011

Hold your cards, we have a nutcase.

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Only a fool would claim poor weather was not a factor.

Only a fool would call Mitch a liar.

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Hey Kirien, does the low attendance mean there aren’t folks out there that want less spending/lower taxes and more freedom?
Mr. D

April 19, 2011

Kirien comes to speak Truth to Power and sayeth thus:

And yet curiously the South Carolina tea party rally had an equally paltry turnout despite having warmer weather and Congresswoman Bachmann as its keynote speaker.

Given that the South Carolina legislature and the governor’s office are all occupied by Tea Party-friendly politicians, it’s not particularly surprising that a rally wasn’t that big. But I bet you knew that.

My advice to you is that if you have to lie and spout inanities to defend your position and your supposed principles then they’re not worth defending.

Which are the lies and which are the inanities? You probably ought to sort them out, doncha think?

Oh and also…if you have to insult your opponents as you and your friends do here, Mr. Berg, then you’re admitting your position is indefensible.

And of course you demonstrate the impregnability of the beliefs you never quite get around to presenting by coming to Mitch’s blog and insulting him by calling him a liar and spouter of inanities. Although the “Mr. Berg” trope is nice in a Keith Olbermannesque sort of way.
Terry

April 19, 2011

I spy with my little eye . . .
The return of that Peevish guy.
Kermit

April 19, 2011

Yeah Berg, your position is indefensible because you um, ah, insulted your opponents? I don’t recall that. But evidence be damned, because it must be true! We don’t need no stinkin’ corroboration! You’re a liar because some faceless lefty says you are! Case closed!!!
Seflores

April 19, 2011

Kirien, the Concern Troll ( http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/04/quick-guide-to-blog-trolls.html ) wrote: “There used to be a time when the Republicans were a party of honor and intelligence and morality. Apparently that time died with Reagan.”
Thanks for reminding all that the only good Republicans are dead Republicans!
Were you re-tweeting Keith Olbermann’s wish that S.E. Cupp’s parents had used the abortion, er, uh, birth control services Klan Parenthood provides as well?
Seflores

April 19, 2011

Next from Kieren, the Concern Troll – Pointing out where the proprietor of this blog has brought shame on the legacy of Barry Goldwater (or Robert Taft) (or Dwight Eisenhower) (or Lee Atwater).
Terry

April 19, 2011

“Kieren”‘s comment reminds me of a cold war joke:

American reporter is assigned his Soviet guide and the guide takes the American to see the glorious Moscow subway.
They wait on the platform for a few minutes and the American says, apropos of nothing, “I hate waiting for subway trains”.
The Russian turns red with anger and spits out: “What about your lynchings in the South!”
Mr. D

April 19, 2011

Next from Kieren, the Concern Troll – Pointing out where the proprietor of this blog has brought shame on the legacy of Barry Goldwater (or Robert Taft) (or Dwight Eisenhower) (or Lee Atwater).

(or Rutherford B. Hayes) (or John C. Fremont)
Mitch Berg

April 19, 2011

“Kirien”,

o, Mitch, youargued that on the local Fox television affiliate that the reason the tea party rally a few days ago had such a low turnout was because of poor weather and the lack of a keynote speaker.

Incorrect. I said nothing about the “lack of a keynote speaker”. I noted the weather (quite justifiably) and the fact that it’s an off-year after a big Tea Party victory. I don’t believe the “off-year” comment made it on the air.

And yet curiously the South Carolina tea party rally had an equally paltry turnout despite having warmer weather and Congresswoman Bachmann as its keynote speaker. My advice to you is that if you have to lie and spout inanities to defend your position and your supposed principles then they’re not worth defending.

Your suggestion is taken, considered, and rejected for lack of merit. It’s just as much an off-year in SC as it is here.

Oh and also…if you have to insult your opponents as you and your friends do here, Mr. Berg, then you’re admitting your position is indefensible.

That’s a bit of a non-sequitur. I haven’t insulted anyone, for starters.

And if I say “the sun rose this morning, you halfwit”, the insult doesn’t somehow mean it’s still dark out. Not that I insulted you or anyone.

There used to be a time when the Republicans were a party of honor and intelligence and morality. Apparently that time died with Reagan.

No, we’re still it. You’re apparently on a mission to demonize us. Indeed, by your own “logic” (I use the scare quotes because you’ve indulged in a series of logical fallacies), your post is unworthy of consideration, as it’s full of insults.
Seflores

April 19, 2011

John C. Fremont – Now that’s an old school Republican “Kirien” could love. You don’t get more dead or much more Republican than that.
Mitch Berg

April 19, 2011

Considering “Kirien’s” previous appearance on this blog – claiming that I “lied” in saying Common Cause data was the *only* data used by MMB in the “Fiscal Notes” being lobbed at the GOP’s budget, which I inconveniently neither said nor implied in any way – what we have here is the type of troll that runs through fields of strawmen with a blowtorch…
Terry

April 19, 2011

what we have here is the type of troll that runs through fields of strawmen with a blowtorch…

Which is why I think that “kirien” is our old friend (not even close to nemesis) Mr. PiBb.
That and the fact that “Kirien”, like our ersatz Dr. Pepper, does not understand what it means to misuse an ad hominem argument.
bosshoss429

April 19, 2011

“There used to be a time when the Republicans were a party of honor and intelligence and morality.”

Bwaaaaahaaaahaaaa! You must be looking in the mirror, because except for that whole KKK thing, the Democrats used to be the same way. Apparently, that ended with the death of JFK. Buffoon!
Terry

April 19, 2011

“There used to be a time when the Republicans were a party of honor and intelligence and morality.”

I don’t think there ever was a time when the Democrats were a party of honor and intelligence and morality. Four almost fifty years the Democrats have heartily embraced Ted Kennedy as a leader — and Kennedy was a drunk who got kicked out of Harvard for cheating. There was also that messy Chappaquiddick incident.
The Democrats used to say that they were the party of the little guy. After years of increasing regressive taxes and stomping on things like school choice and immigration enforcement (they are on the same page as the US Chamber of Commerce on immigration), you would have to be a particularly dishonest Democrat to say that today.
Kermit

April 19, 2011

You would be hard pressed to find an honest Democrat Terry. Just look at the man currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I have never in my life seen such a bald-faced liar.
Terry

April 20, 2011

I should mention as well that the Democrats supported states’ right only when it meant freedom for the southern states to oppress minorities.