Mark Dayton, from a bit on the TV news yesterday, on his veto of the GOP’s budget bills:
“The problem…apparently…seems to lie with some of the extreme right wing members, especially the new ones, who don’t seem to know how government works”.
So Tom Bakk’s stupid remark about the GOP freshmen not being part of the government club…
…is the official DFL party line?
Along with the whole “everyone who opposes Dayton is an “extremist”” schtick?
“…is the official DFL party line?” If it ain’t broke why fix it? It’s not like some DFL stenographer/publicist at the Strib/PiPress/WDFL etc is going to challenge them.
Government “works”? Really? Like a business? Freaking delusional.
“The problem…apparently…seems to lie with some of the extreme right wing members, especially the new ones, who don’t seem to know how government works”.
From Time Magazine’s 2006 edition naming Dayton worst Senator.
(Dayton) has confounded his colleagues by complaining about basic facts of the job, such as his limited power in a chamber where authority derives from seniority.
That’s why I call Dayton a congenital idiot. It takes a village to elect an idiot. Thanks, DFL.
Dayton and the governing elites have an interest in the status quo.
The only problem with that is that the vast bulk of the population isn’t exactly happy with the status quo these days. It has something to do with high taxes, a lack of a recovery, and real unemployment (as measured by the same standards that measured the Reagan Recession) of 17%.
That the newer inductees are more sensitive to what’s happening in the real world shouldn’t be surprising. They’ve been exposed to the real world more recently than the inmates running the governmental asylum. It’s one reason I strongly support term limits with real teeth to allow folks to be in the government for no more than a dozen years in any combination of offices. We should have folks who know what the consequences of their actions are, and who will be subject to the consequences of those actions themselves for most of their lives.
And now “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” (remember them, the Dayton slush money crowd?) are going to sink a million dollars into brainwashing the weak-minded turds (see: Doggie Dimwit and Timmy from StP) that spending $2 billion MORE than the last biennium is a “cut”. And that we need to have double digit increases in SPENDING, as proposed by the Moonbat-in-Chief.
So “how government works” must always mean “tax prosperous people because I resent them for their prosperity”, I guess?
It is clear that the government has goals that differ from those of the people. In a state or nation that claims to be a democratic republic this is not good.
The problem with term limits, Nerdbert, is that it means the State would be able to tell the people who they may and may not elect to office.
It doesn’t matter, Terry. We have an Imperial Judiciary that subverts democracy at every turn. Case in point: one judge in Wisconsin has ruled that the new law curtailing some collective bargaining for public employee unions is “null and void”.
We don’t need a legislature any longer. We are ruled by activist judges. Democracy is dying in America.
The problem with term limits, Nerdbert, is that it means the State would be able to tell the people who they may and may not elect to office.
We already have many of those restrictions on who may be elected, viz. age, citizenship, birth, etc. Term limiting politicians merely makes it more difficult to profit indirectly from “contributions” by lobbyists. I merely want legislators to actually consider the effects that they’re imposing on the rest of society by knowing that they will be forcefully reintegrated into the system they’re developing.
If I ran a political party I would get around a term limit law by shuffling party loyalists from office to office and moving my candidates into “private sector” jobs between office holding gigs. The candidates who would find their political career crippled by term limits would be those who appealed to the people but threatened party unity, which is the opposite of what most term limit proponents would like to see.
Term limits wouldn’t shift power back to the people or to the states, it would shift power to the better organized and more disciplined political party.
Help me remember, how did Babbling Bakk vote on Dayton’s budget proposal?
Silly people, its not a citizen run government its a government run by your betters! For shame to think mere commoners could serve. What do you think we live in, a representative Republic?!
The problem with term limits, Nerdbert, is that it means the State would be able to tell the people who they may and may not elect to office.
And it would result in a government run by lobbyists. You know who has the toughest statewide term limit rules? California. Look how well its working there. The only thing worse than a government run by politicians is a government run by a bunch of unelected lobbyists.