Last week at the State Fair, I interviewed Congressman John Kline, shortly after he’d adopted the “press the Reset button” line on the healthcare debate.  Kline reflects the kind of deliberation one needs to exhibit when talking about a sixth of the US economy.

Keith Ellison is not a legislator who needs to deliberate; like President Obama, he’s an apparatchik from a place with a one-party government; in Minneapolis, deliberation is for parties that aren’t in power.

None of that pesky “thought’ and “democratic process” for Ellison (quotes from the KSTP-TV interview with the Representative):

“We need to hit the “go” button”. 

 None of that pesky “democracy” for Ellison:

“I don’t think getting a bipartisan bill is more important than getting a good bill for the American people”.

 (where “Good” means “Enact the Administration’s radical agenda, consequences – unintended and “Unintended” – be damned!”)

But there is no debate too complex, with consequences too daunting, that a little rah-rah cheerleading can’t be used as substitutes for actual thought…:

“I think the boat should be leaving the dock.  You wanna get on board, you gotta get on board right now”.

…among DFLers, anyway.

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