The Lori Sturdevant Column I’m Looking Forward To Seeing
By Mitch Berg
“Senator John Harrington remembers a time when the DFL had to try to represent both sides, and be responsible”.
“”There was a time in Saint Paul DFL politics when, yes, there was ideology, but you had to remember you were representing ALL of the people in your district“, Harrington told me over coffee at a favorite East Side hangout on Lexington yesterday”.
“Harrington was reeling from his non-endorsement at his Senate District convention last weekend, where extreme liberal zealots, acting more from partisanship than concern for what was best for the district, split their vote three ways, denying Harrington the endorsement”.
“This is an unseemly commentary on Minnesota politics today, where the DFL is running for the extreme left in a way that, to this reporter, seems “Un-Minnesotan”.
“What would Hubert H. Humphrey say?”
April 3rd, 2012 at 12:33 pm
“What would Hubert H. Humphrey say?”
If he were in politics today, Hubert Humphrey would be too far to the right for today’s DFL. I love telling that to liberals to watch their heads explode. But they can’t deny it.
That said, asking Lori Sturdevant to write about the Republican Party is like hiring Willie Sutton to work at your bank.
April 3rd, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Were he alive today, Humphrey would be persona non grata inside the DFL. The Sergeant At Arms would have standing instructions to slash his tires.
April 3rd, 2012 at 1:49 pm
He’d say, I thought I already purged all the commies from the party?! Now I come back to find not only are they in charge but the President represents them. Hell, like JFK by today’s standard HHH would probably be a Republican.
April 3rd, 2012 at 1:50 pm
asking Lori Sturdevant to write about the Republican Party is like hiring Willie Sutton to work at your bank.
Or to get more grizzly, having John Wayne Gacey babysit your kids. Too dark?
April 3rd, 2012 at 2:27 pm
“What would Hubert H. Humphrey say?”
HHH: Are you going to ban me from the DFL convention like you did to Senator Dayton / now Governor Dayton?
April 3rd, 2012 at 2:32 pm
How about having Ted Bundy date your daughter? Ted Kennedy? Charlie Sheen?
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Mine is darker 🙂 Although with 2 of those three odds are your daughter will end up raped or dead, or both.
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:32 pm
You, Sir Ben, win the moniker as Prince of Darkness. I concede to, and am humbled by, your opaqueness and antipathy.
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Using Colonel_Flagg’s comments as a segue of sorts, isn’t this the only direction that the DFL could go? I mean when the goals of the DFL were already achieved 40, 50 years ago, where next?
Well, as Mae West is supposed to have, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Conservation is good, but environmentalism is better. A social safety net is good, but welfare payments so good it can’t pay to work is better. Adequately funded schools producing educated students is good, a well-funded educational system producing happily retired administrators is better.
It’s the bureaucracy filled with people happy to vote for the DFL that’s important.
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:58 pm
TBS, I’d like that on a trophy please
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:59 pm
also I think I am changing my posting moniker to The Prince of Darkness, it has a certain ring to it
April 3rd, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Prince of Darkness has been taken. If you want to wrest the title from the current holder, I would caution you.
April 3rd, 2012 at 4:35 pm
goddamn it
April 3rd, 2012 at 4:37 pm
HAHA
April 3rd, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Great comedic timing. Theoretical question though, P of D: If you are the source of all Evil and Darkness, does Lori Sturdevant have an office next to you?
April 3rd, 2012 at 10:43 pm
No that spot is now currently occupied by Bashir Al-Assad, even though he’s not technically American we reserve the right to outsource the spot if someone has really proven themselves worthy of that office. Stalin and Pol Pot were there for awhile and Kim Jong-Il took over after Ted Kennedy died (first actual US politician we’ve had there in awhile, we really wish he could have put pants on more often though, that man had an insane sex drive). We here at the Department of Evil and Darkness (its in the federal black budget, so shhh, unless you want MIB to show up at your door, and not the Tommy Lee Jones or Will Smith type MIB, the ones that make you disappear) take pride in what we do and even we were amazed at how well Obama has done dismantling the great institutions of the United States. To be fair though he isn’t trying to do it, if he was we would be a open part of the government but lets just say that we have people in place ahem, helping him. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a Skype meeting with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
April 4th, 2012 at 9:11 am
Sturdevant’s office is just down the hall, in the Department of Truth.
April 4th, 2012 at 11:26 am
“Theoretical question though, P of D: If you are the source of all Evil and Darkness, does Lori Sturdevant have an office next to you?”
No. It’s a corner office and the one next door belongs to Jay Carney. Across the hall, though, that’s another story.
April 4th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Good humor.
April 4th, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Sturdevant’s office is just down the hall, in the Department of Truth
Wrong! Ministry of Love, Room 101.