{"id":10864,"date":"2010-05-11T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2010-05-19T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:31:05","slug":"dems-stay-classy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10864","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: The Black Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You pretty much expect the DFL to lie about things; they&#8217;re stuck behind an administration that is becoming less popular daily and a Congress that might, maybe, outpoll Charles Manson.\u00a0 They&#8217;re strapped to a Healthcare bill that is about to blow up in their faces, electorally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4575208799_e7c6e34c94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And at a time when jobs are tight and even legal immigrants have had enough of illegal immigration, they are flogging the idea of open borders.<\/p>\n<p>The facts of their own positions are against them.\u00a0 You can hardly expect them not to aim for the gutter.<\/p>\n<p>This little fella&#8217;s name is Robert Erickson.\u00a0 He joined the Emmer &#8220;Cinco De Mayo&#8221; parade &#8211; but he&#8217;s no Emmer supporter:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4598308707_d5686ce7d6.jpg\" alt=\"The handmade sign says Your Papers Please. \" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The handmade sign says &quot;Your Papers Please&quot;. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>He writes a leftyblog called &#8220;Columbus Go Home&#8221; (I&#8217;m not going to link it; too depressing).\u00a0 If you see him at a parade, he should be politely asked to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Democrats have no actual counterarguments, and they&#8217;re losing in all the polls that matter, we have to be all the more vigilant about things like false-flag dirty tricks and dumbed down chanting points like these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbusgohome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/emmer.jpg\" alt=\"Macalester Coeds display their solidarity with their Latina sistas.\" width=\"418\" height=\"264\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Macalester coeds display their solidarity with their Latina sistas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;aimed at voters who just don&#8217;t know any better, it&#8217;s vital the Republican activists watch out for things like Mr. Erickson, with too much time on their hands and too little respect for other&#8217;s free speech.<\/p>\n<p>WELCOME, &#8220;PHOENIX WOMAN&#8221; READERS: Glad you stopped by!\u00a0 Just to clarify, though &#8211; whenever leftybloggers say that people like me &#8220;seethe with envy&#8221; or are &#8220;having a cow&#8221; or are &#8220;melting down&#8221;, they are pulling it (to phrase it in Latin, which is so much classier than English) <em>De Anus<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, &#8220;she&#8221; would be accountable for this sort of thing &#8211; if she blogged under her actual name.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that&#8217;s why &#8220;she&#8221; stays anonymous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You pretty much expect the DFL to lie about things; they&#8217;re stuck behind an administration that is becoming less popular daily and a Congress that might, maybe, outpoll Charles Manson.\u00a0 They&#8217;re strapped to a Healthcare bill that is about to blow up in their faces, electorally.\u00a0 And at a time when jobs are tight and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10869,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions\/10869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}