{"id":11298,"date":"2010-06-07T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11298"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:32:39","slug":"you-dig-sixteen-tons-of-legislation-and-what-do-you-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11298","title":{"rendered":"You Dig Sixteen Tons Of Legislation, And What Do You Get?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a Tweet from State Senator Taryll Clark<\/a>, the endorsed DFL candiate running against Michele Bachmann in the Sixth District this fall.<\/p>\n

The Bachmann Agenda: More media less legislation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I thought I should thank Senator Clark for illuminating the difference between liberals and conservatives as thoroughly as anyone possibly could.<\/p>\n

Do we judge our legislators by how much legislative manure they shovel through the grinder?\u00a0 Or can we go for something a little deeper?<\/p>\n

The tweet linked to this bit on her website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Minnesota congresswoman and conservative darling Michele Bachmann has mastered the art of bypassing the mainstream media in favor of more ideologically friendly outlets, according to a long profile in today’s Washington Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, goodness.\u00a0 We’re back to that old chestnut?\u00a0 Goody.<\/p>\n

The first time this accusation came out – from Andy Birkey at the Minnesoros “Independent”, <\/em>no less – that Rep. Bachmann shied away from liberal news outlets and favored conservative ones, I took the liberty of asking <\/a>RT Rybak, Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, Dane Smith and a few other prominent DFLers to come on the Northern Alliance – the Twin Cities’ flagship conservative media outlet.\u00a0 Only Smith and Rybak appeared and, for that matter, paid us the courtesy of a response.<\/p>\n

So since Taryll Clark is so into across-the-aisle communication, I invite her to come on the Northern Alliance Radio Network with Ed Morrissey and I<\/strong>.\u00a0 We’ll talk for 30-60 minutes.\u00a0 It’ll be fun – ask RT Rybak!\u00a0 I’ll make sure she gets this invite, but if you’re a member of Sen. Clark’s staff (or one of her St. Cloud-area gadflies), feel free to forward my cordial and sincere invitation.<\/p>\n

But that appears to have come at the expense of her legislative activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Washington’s got all kinds of legislators who shovel legislative manure into the hopper.\u00a0 Bachmann is leading a movement, and doing spectacularly well at it.<\/p>\n

And if Bachmann beats Clark by less than eight points in November, I’ll be amazed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read a Tweet from State Senator Taryll Clark, the endorsed DFL candiate running against Michele Bachmann in the Sixth District this fall. The Bachmann Agenda: More media less legislation And I thought I should thank Senator Clark for illuminating the difference between liberals and conservatives as thoroughly as anyone possibly could. Do we judge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-11298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minnesota-politics","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298","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=11298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22372,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11298\/revisions\/22372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}