Showy, Shallow, Shrill: Your 2011 DFL Caucus!

As little as governmetn at any level does that’s of any worth, there is a certain amount of responsibility involved.

When it became apparent that there’s a chance the Fed might shut down (or at least cut back its non-debt spending), both Denise Cardinal “Governor Dayton” and Rep. Keith Downey made moves, via their various means (executive and legislative), to start planning how to manage the state without some or all of the billions of dollars in federal money that Minnesota gets.   It only made sense.

Then intellectual giants in the legislative DFL caucus got their two cents in:

The bill passed committee on April 28, but not before being mocked as a “doomsday scenario” by Representative Ryan Winkler (DFL – Golden Valley), who offered an amendment to also ask the state to plan for “asteroid collisions, nuclear war, extraterrestrial invasions, coup d’tat and natural disasters caused by global warming.” Winkler withdrew the amendment after being mocked by Republicans for not taking the issue seriously.

Winkler may or may not be much of a legislator – he’s the Eddie Haskell of the House – but he certainly has a flair for the dramatic (emphasis added, but only to mock the little fella):

“I think you know that this bill doesn’t address a situation that’s anywhere close to reality.  It’s fantasy. I’m afraid it might be a partisan fantasy to see failure on this colossal of a scale. Frankly if the federal government became insolvent I‘m not so concerned about the effect on state programs; I would be concerned about the looters who are gonna be running through our neighborhoods. You are talking about almost an Armageddon kind of situation happening in the country where the United States basically falls apart…”

In Ryan Winkler’s special little world, government makes life itself possible.

I’d love to watch a solid, sharp, conservative debating Winkler.  It would look like a butcher pounding veal with a big hammer.


7 thoughts on “Showy, Shallow, Shrill: Your 2011 DFL Caucus!

  1. Collusion in a government enterprise? Making the taxpayer feel the maximum pain for their lack of fiscal discipline? Politicians wanting the inconvenience taxpayers to the hilt? I thought this strategy was reserved solely for school districts trolling for referenda.

  2. Frankly if the federal government became insolvent I‘m not so concerned about the effect on state programs; I would be concerned about the looters who are gonna be running through our neighborhoods.

    So to State Representative Winkler the Federal Government is responsible for neighborhood security? There’s ample evidence to believe that he failed elementary civics.

  3. Uh, the federal government has 5 branches, right? Where’s my Sombucho? I have a bunch of pills to wash down before the next vote.

  4. “I would be concerned about the looters who are gonna be running through our neighborhoods.”

    He should be worried about this, as they will be his entitled class of libturd constituents looking for freebies from the evil rich.

  5. You mean to say that the state government HASN’T planned for …“asteroid collisions, nuclear war, extraterrestrial invasions, coup d’tat and natural disasters caused by global warming”… let alone ZOMBIE INFESTATIONS?
    WTF do these a88hole8 do all day, and why does it cost so much 4uckin money???

  6. So Kermit, it is true that Dayton has made his office in a closet well stocked with “sombucho”?
    If I were you I would be very, very worried.

  7. Mark Dayton made his “office” in a closet because he feels safe there. It’s much easier to curl up under the desk. If you have ever seen Margaret Anderson Kelliher you would understand why.

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