Shot in the Dark

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  • Every Single Day Of My Blogging Life

    SCENE:  MITCH is walking down Constitution Avenue, near the state capitol.  It’s a bright, bright, sunshiny day.  Detached-looking figures wander, aimlessly and slightly out of focus, in the distance. (Aaron ROSTON, DFL activist, pro-bullying-activist and blogger from Fungus Flats, MN, is standing in the middle of the sidewalk). MITCH (stepping around ROSTON):  Excuse me. ROSTON…

  • Wedges 101: Let’s Review Some History

    Let’s take a run back to 2008  The DFL controlled the legislature and everything else but the govenorship. ME: “So, DFL – if you’re so hot for gay marriage, why don’t you pass a gay marriage bill?” DFLers: “Because the Governor will veto it? ME: “So?  Principle is principle!  If your voter base is so hot for…

  • Note To Whatever GOP Leadership Remains In The Legislature

    To: The GOP Leadership In The Legislature, Whoever You End Up Being From: Mitch Berg, Schnook Peasant Re:  Upcoming Session All, It’s two months ’til what is going to be a couple of very grueling sessions. Now, Governor Dayton is an addled bobblehead who is nothing but a marionette for Alida Messinger and the unions…

  • Media Lip-Prints On Mark Dayton’s Butt, Part I

    The DFL – and, more accurately, its’ big-money PR operation “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” – have been trying to repeat a couple of Big Lies often enough that, over the course of the next two years, a plurality of Minnesotans agree with them. Again. One of them is the myth of the “do-nothing legislature”.…

  • The Crack Of Doom

    Leah Barkoukis notes something that should replace the tingles in Chris Matthews’ and Barack Obama’s legs with chills of dread. For this entire election, the Obama Administration, and Democrats up and down the food chain, have been laboring mightily to pound a couple of sound bites into voters’ heads; that Republicans will take away contraception…

  • Testimony

    (SCENE:  A press conference on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol.  Gretel Anderson-Rage of the League of Women Voters, Mike Boing of Common Cause MN and Irving Blotnik of the ACLU-MN are hosting a group of speakers, as two reporters, a homeless guy, and Carrie Lucking (of Alliance for a Better Minnesota) look on.…

  • The Democrat Low-Information Voter Monopoly

    It started almost as a joke.  Two years ago, as I watched the Alliance for a Better Minnesota run Governor Dayton’s campaign (let’s be honest) behind a set of memes that a modestly intelligent junior high kid could have shredded, I observed that the Dems seemed to be basing their campaign on winning over “Low-Information…

  • Protecting The Vote

    I met my old friend “Lucky” Carroll, long-time DFL political operative and currently head meme-buffer for Alliance for a Better MInnesota, for a drink the other day.  As usual, she’d started before I got there.  Long before. ME: (to waitress): Bring me a vodka sour. (to Carroll)  So whatcha been up to? CARROLL:  (four empty…

  • Peterson Averts Ritual Suicide; DFLers Outraged

    Dave Mindeman seems flabbergasted that elected officials must be in tune with their voters on even the most flamingly, sirens-blazingly obvious issues: Rep. Colin Peterson has confirmed that there is one thing more important than being a Democrat….one thing more important than principle….one thing more important than the truth. That would be: The NRA Well, let’s be…

  • Just So We’re Clear On Things

    Dave Mindeman is one of the small group of Twin Cities leftybloggers who doesn’t deserve to be under police surveillance. That’s actually pretty solid compliment, given the nature of Twin Cities leftybloggers. But he obeys a bunch of the usual leftyblogger strictures – most notable among them the idea that conservatives, as they relate us,…

  • Buying Minnesota – 2012 Edition

    Two years ago, this blog led the Twin Cities media in documenting the extent to which liberal plutocrats and government employee unions were buying the gubernatorial race. Because remember – money in politics is baaaad, unless it’s from a liberal plutocrat… …like Alita Messinger, billionaire and scion of the Rockefeller fortune and, need we mention,…

  • Tony Hernandez: Five Paths To Congress

    “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln. As a matter of full disclosure, I’m a worker-bee volunteer at the Tony Hernandez for Congress campaign. When I mention this to people in my relentlessly-DFL neighborhood…

  • Berg’s Seventh Law In Action

    Berg’s Seventh Law – “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds” – is going to be one of the dominant themes of the both the Presidential and…

  • Chanting Points Memo: If “Alliance For A Better Minnesota” Couldn’t Lie, They’d Be Mute

    Last night, the paid flaks at “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” – the astroturf PR group financed by the Dayton family, Mark Dayton’s ex-wife Alita Messinger, a bunch of their liberal plutocrat friends, and the unions that own Mark Dayton, put out a tweet: Good thing Gov. Dayton vetoed the law: Study says ‘Stand Your…

  • The Dayton Way

    National Review ran yet another dissection of the complete collapse of Detroit last week. One of the key lessons – giving unions carte blanche neither bolsters middle-class wages nor general prosperity: One lesson to learn from Detroit is that investing unions with coercive powers does not ensure future private-sector employment or the preservation of private-sector…

  • Questions

    I’m supporting Tony Hernandez for US House in CD4. Someone asked me “what is it you’re trying to accomplish by campaigning against long-time incumbent Betty McCollum”  Are you just trying to move the needle?  Force the DFL to spend money on McCollum so they can’t spend it against Bachmann, Kline, Paulsen and Cravaack? No. I…

  • Chanting Points Memo: “Do-Nothing”

    Speaker Zellers and Senator Senjem had barely brought the gavels down on the session when the DFL’s paid PR organs – Alliance for a Better Minnesota, Common Cause and the unions – and their unpaid ones in the media started chanting the meme: it’d been a “do-nothing” legislature. That is, of course, objectiively wrong.  The…

  • Governor 1%

    It’s become clear this past few days what “Governor” Dayton’s only real goal has been this past session: provide chanting points for the DFL and its paid messaging service, Alliance For A Better Minnesota. Well, that and providing Wilfare. Yesterday, Dayton vetoed a tax bill aimed at helping jump-start small business: The plan would have given…

  • Tom Dooher Is A Lying Sack Of Garbage

    I’ve said it over and over – and every day of new evidence confirms it more; the DFL’s strategy seems to be “say whatever we want to (knowing that the media will never, ever contradict us in public, at least not in a way that the majority of voters will ever see or hear),  regardless…

  • Tevlin Slops The Narrative Trough

    The sexual shenanigans of John Edwards, Elliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton and Andrew Weiner define the entire history of the Democratic Party. Everything about the Democrats – their beliefs, their policies, their legacy, the intellectual currents that led to the DFL being what it is today – all of it.  Every single aspect of Democrat life…

  • Can’t You Suckers See That It’s Me, Me Me?

    Faced with an amendment that will likely pass 2:1 this fall that will also peel off enough fraudulent votes to cost them some of the close elections (like the last Governor and Senate races), the Democrats are turning on the spin. Emphasis added to this bit here from the MinnPost: But opponents say it will make…

  • Open Letter To Ron Paul Supporters In The 4th CD

    To: Ron Paul Supporters, especially in the 4th Congresisonal District From: Mitch Berg Re: Your Shot At Making A Real Difference All, Some of you know me.  I’m Mitch Berg.  And long before I had a blog, and even longer before I hosted a talk show, and longer-still before I got heavily involved in “establishment”…

  • You Call It “Weasel”; “Progressives” Call It “Mink”

    The Democrats have been waging a war for the English language.  Part of that war is harping on how the Republicans are…well, waging a war for the English language. Rhetoric – using language to try to control how people think about issues – is as old as politics itself. And Jill Klausen – writing at…

  • Jon Tevlin: Waterboy For The Narrative

    After the Franson “story” broke the week before last, the DFL thought it was onto a Don Imus moment. And they needed one – their somnolent legislative caucus They were disappointed when the story started to fade – even most DFLers can tell when context is being waterboarded.  It was dropping off the radar last…

  • The Real War Against Women

    Last week, Rep, Mary Franson released a video response to constituent questions.  One of the questions was about welfare. In the video (since removed, unfortunately), Franson compared welfare to treating people like animals – by creating dependence, making it impossible for them to live without help.  In other words, government treats them like pets, zoo…