{"id":10926,"date":"2010-05-17T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10926"},"modified":"2010-05-17T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:50:26","slug":"its-what-he-says-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10926","title":{"rendered":"It’s What He Says It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

In America, we have a veto to protect the minority from the depredations of the majority.\u00a0 It’s part of our system here in Minnesota; it has been since we became a state.<\/p>\n

The whole point is to prevent majorities, even prohibitive majorities, from running roughshod over the minority.<\/p>\n

Cut to Keith Langseth, who entered the Legislature the same year Jimmy Carter came to the White House, knows better.\u00a0 As Govenror Pawlenty ended the session without caving in to the Dems’ control of both houses of the Legislature, Langseth groused…:<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Sen. Keith Langseth, DFL-Glyndon, who has served in the Legislature since 1974.<\/p>\n

Langseth expressed exasperation with Pawlenty and his refusal to give in on the budget. “I’ve served with six governors, and five of them know what democracy is about,” Langseth said. “You compromise.” DFLers hold strong majorities in the House and Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, “you” do compromise.<\/p>\n

If “you” are the DFL, “you” always means “the GOP”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In America, we have a veto to protect the minority from the depredations of the majority.\u00a0 It’s part of our system here in Minnesota; it has been since we became a state. The whole point is to prevent majorities, even prohibitive majorities, from running roughshod over the minority. Cut to Keith Langseth, who entered the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926","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=10926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10927,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926\/revisions\/10927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}