Keith Ellison has wielded in effect unlimited power for this past year, under Governor Klink’s emergency powers. Ellison has in effect been the Sammy Gravano to Tim Walz’s John Gotti – the muscle of the enterprise, making examples of business who didn’t knuckle under on command.
I mused at one point or another over this past year that it was inevitable that Ellison would turn out to have been a firebrand for liberty, if Republican were ever try try to abuse emergency power.
Was I right?
They don’t call it “Berg’s Seventh Law” for nothing.
“There is absolutely nothing more important than safeguarding the liberty of the people we are charged to represent,” Ellison said before the Minnesota Legislature when he was a state representative in 2005. This statement came during a debate about what powers the government should enjoy during times of emergency. At that time, Republican Tim Pawlenty was Minnesota’s governor.
“There should be a sunset in this bill [to provide emergency powers], we should be forced to look at this stuff on a regular basis. We should have to come back to see what works and what doesn’t and review this stuff … we are in an evolving situation as it relates to what we know,” he said.
“I hope we put ourselves in a position where we have to look at this again,” then-representative Ellison concluded. “There absolutely should be a sunset provision in here, and we’ve got to look at this thing on a regular basis, and tweak it and work it and massage it until it fits with our constitutionally-mandated duty.”
What a difference a couple of years of absolute power makes, huh?
Commies gonna commie, but the reader is left with the impression that the present emergency powers law was thus written and passed by Republicans. Who are now complaining about it.
From what I understand, Mary Franzen dug up the video of numb nuts spouting this. Once again, Democrats illustrate the adage if there were no double standards, they would have no standards at all.
It’s all about teams, Jets vs Patriots, Cardinals vs Cubs, Yankees vs Red Sox, Gophers vs Badgers…pick your own. If my team does it, it’s great. If the other team does it, it’s the worst. Now imagine all the people who lost their minds the last 4 years over everything Sideshow Donald said and the wailing, gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair that would be occurring if he was saying, acting and doing everything Xiden has done the last 6 months. I’m old enough to remember cries for the 25th Amendment, unfit for office
But things are excellent because it’s my team.