The Strib is happy with Pawlenty’s tone at his inauguration:

As Pawlenty acknowledged, achieving shared government won’t be easy

I love that term; “shared government”.

You can bet that had Mike Hatch choked a few thousand more votes out last November, the “s” word would be nowhere to be found.

especially if it’s to achieve more than a too-easy, least-common-denominator result. But in the 2006 election, restive voters signaled an impatience with petty politics that gets in the way of quality-of-life gains.

Huh-what?

OK.  I suppose it’s possible that there are voters out there who are dumb enough to think that “funding government” equals “quality of life” – and that paying more to the State will make your life better.  But if the Strib editorial board thinks that November 7 was about “gridlock” in Saint Paul, it’d explain a lot of other things.

Pawlenty appeared yesterday to be reading the electorate accurately, and responding. If the Legislature does the same, a truly productive governing season could be dawning.

The three most terrible words in the life of any hard-working, schmuck taxpayer: “productive governing season”.

Oh, Governor Pawlenty; if you don’t run that veto pen red-hot, you and I are going to go ’round and ’round.

Rhetorically speaking.

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