Chanting Points Memo: The Cult Of Compromise

In anticipation of tonight’s game against the Detroit Tigers, who are ten games ahead of the Twins in the AL Central, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire gave a press conference early this morning.

“We’ve done our best to be bipartisan in the run-up to the game”, said Gardenhire, whose team has a .321 record so far this season.  “The Tigers need to compromise!”

As the team tries to avert a sweep at Detroit’s “Filth and Crime Stadium”, Gardenhire noted “the Tigers’ manager is being boorish and intransigent; the people overwhelmingly support compromise in tonight’s game”, he said, citing a Star Tribune Minnesota poll showing fifty random Minneapolis adults support the Tigers forfeiting tonight’s game.

“We’ve reached out and given enough”, Gardenhire concluded.  “It’s time for the Tigers to give a little”.

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Dayton’s case for “compromise” is about the same as Gardenhire’s.  Let’s get clear on a couple of facts here:

  1. Dayton’s mandate is nonexistent:  Dayton backed into office with 43% of the vote (DFLers will respond “But Horner favored raising taxes, too!”  Perhaps, but you can not assume Horner’s voters supported him because of taxes; indeed, the DFL’s propaganda machine couldn’t stop reminding people what a “Republican” Horner was during the campaign; it’d be pretty funny for the DFL to try to have it both ways, but hardly unprecedented. It’s every bit as likely that 10% voted for Horner out of blind hatred of Mark Dayton as because taxes make them tingly), the second-lowest in history.  He’s weak.
  2. The GOP ‘s mandate is real: The GOP majority in the Legislature, on the other hand, won big, with a broad mandate made even more lopsided by the fact that a disproportionate number of the DFL’s votes came from blowout races in the Metro.  There was no mistaking it; it was the biggest turnaround in state political history, from the dismal 2008 race to crushing majorities in both chambers.  The GOP is not only entitled to govern like they won – they’d be disingenuous not to.

The DFL’s only real support on this issue is astroturf, bogus polls, and endless browbeating.

Which is noisy and showy, but doesn’t mean a whole lot.

9 thoughts on “Chanting Points Memo: The Cult Of Compromise

  1. Sometimes the best way to be invisible is to stand still and do nothing. The DFL has brought the practice to a high art. Rather than suggest action, inaction seems to be their strength. Why not? After all, their constitutency is the LEAST affected if nothing changes.

  2. it’d be pretty funny for the DFL to try to have it both ways, but hardly unprecedented
    Unprecedented? The DFL double standard is as expected as Dog Gone citing chimera studies to bolster erroneous conclusions.

  3. What dems are really scared of (and I believe this has been mentioned before on this blog) is that a shutdown happens and… life goes on. People don’t even notice, and if we can stand our ground until then life will be good. God forbid life might actually get a little better around here without the state breathing down businesses necks. Oh and for the love of God I am SICK of ABM ads already, where is our answer to that BS?

  4. Sometimes the best way to be invisible is to stand still and do nothing.

    I tend to agree with Ben: allow government to shut down. Say Dayton decided that rather than try to live within our means and allow some government work to get done that it was better to deny the citizens of Minnesota benefits. After all, we all know that the MSM/DFL (ptr) have defined the governor as the person responsible for shutting down government if there’s no budget based on our history in the Pawlenty administration.

  5. The thing that baffles me is that $3 billion over the 2010-11 biennium spending does not appear to be enough for Dayton. 10% spending hike in an age when….let’s be honest here, not too many people are getting 5% more per year in wages.

    It is SO time for a TABOR here.

  6. After all, we all know that the MSM/DFL (ptr) have defined the governor as the person responsible for shutting down government
    Sorry, that will never happen. The MSM/DFL have refined double standards to a fine art. The blame always, ALWAYS goes to the GOP, regardless of true accountability.

    I apologize if this offends Leslie Hittner.

  7. As I understand it, Belgium has been without a government for almost exactly a year now.
    And I have heard nothing (for the hard of understanding such as DG, that would be goose egg, zero, nada, nix, not a sausage) about the (Belgian) world coming to an end.

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