Fisking Lori Sturdevant is the new Fisking Nick Coleman.

Like Coleman, Sturdevant is a reliably monochrome columnist; practically her every word is predictable.  In fact, if anything Sturdevant is worse; Coleman at least had the occasional story about the community, something about a crime or a community institution where he could depart from “droning DFL hack” mode and actually write something worthwhile.  And, as I acknowledge over years, he did that occasionally.  Rarely, but it happened.

Sturdevant writes about nothing but politics – and her writing is entirely, 100% DFL chanting points.

Like yesterday, where  she burned 20 column inches parrotting Tom Bakk.

There’s nothing in the column that couldn’t have come from DFL Legislative PR flaks Beau Berendtson or Carrie Lucking; indeed, it reads in every particular like it does:

It must be acknowledged that the official line from the Legislature’s GOP majorities is that they don’t need to look for more revenue for the state’s 2012-13 budget, even though it’s $5 billion short.

(Of course, it’s not, and never was, except in comparison with the DFL’s wish list).

But it also must be noted that the GOP’s proposed fix to said budget contains a little north of $1 billion in presumed cost savings that no credible nonpartisan analyst will vouch for.

Sturdevant is repeating the DFL’s chanting point.  Minnesota Management and Budget is no more “non-partisan” than, well, Lori Sturdevant.  And the DFL was saying exactly as much, back when they were trying to pass off a bogus budget:

In the meantime, the GOP has gotten, well, “credible nonpartisan analysts” – ones” that don’t report to Mark Dayton, anyway – to “vouch” for their budget.

I’d love to see someone from the Strib defend the notion that Lori Sturdevant is anything but a DFL propaganda tool.