A few weeks back, Tom Emmer appeared on MPR’s “Mid-Morning with Keri Miller”.<\/p>\n
Now, while I have credited MPR’s Newsroom with making a game attempt at providing balance, MPR’s programming is pretty much a pro-DFL morass. \u00a0Miller is less overtly a DFL flak than her predecessor, future former “Air America” prop Catherine Lanpher, but only barely.<\/p>\n
Her interview with Emmer should <\/em>have been an embarassment. \u00a0 \u00a0Tough questioning is one thing – and a good thing! – but Miller’s stock questions were accompanied with condescention, badgering and hectoring.<\/p>\n So all three DFLers are going to be on Miller’s show today. \u00a0Think Miller will be as concerned about specifics as she was with Emmer?<\/p>\n Think we’ll see questions like “Mr. Dayton, if we end state contracting, will we just stop doing the work, or will the work go to more-expensive unionized state employees?”, or “let’s say you tax “the rich” at confiscatory rates; how much of that five billion deficit your DFL caucus ran up; how much of the deficit will it kill off? \u00a0Be specific<\/em>!” \u00a0“Mr. Entenza, you talk a lot about “Green Jobs” – but the record of “Green Jobs” in the US at large and in Spain has been dismal at best. \u00a0 How is your plan not doomed?” \u00a0“Speaker Kelliher – so get specific here; \u00a0your “plan” makes a lot of vague blandishments about squeezing money out of people; how exactly do you close the deficit and <\/em>spend as much as you’ve promised?’<\/p>\n How often will Miller sharply, mockingly purr “That won’t save much!”?<\/p>\n Any bets?<\/p>\n And when, not if, the DFLers squeeze by without any serious challenge, will Erik Black sniff about how vague they all were?<\/p>\n I’ll be an interesting day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks back, Tom Emmer appeared on MPR’s “Mid-Morning with Keri Miller”. Now, while I have credited MPR’s Newsroom with making a game attempt at providing balance, MPR’s programming is pretty much a pro-DFL morass. \u00a0Miller is less overtly a DFL flak than her predecessor, future former “Air America” prop Catherine Lanpher, but only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20,4,2],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats","category-media","category-minnesota-politics","tag-emmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","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=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12227,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions\/12227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}