{"id":15945,"date":"2010-12-08T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15945"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:19:18","slug":"welcome-to-hell-mark-dayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15945","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Mark Dayton.  Welcome To Hell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So with Emmer&#8217;s apparently-upcoming concession, you&#8217;re the Governor-elect, now, Mark Dayton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n2\/images\/stories\/large\/2010\/08\/11\/53157447.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>After pouring millions of dollars of your family&#8217; s money into the most toxic, slimy, sleazy campaign in Minnesota gubernaturial history, a campaign noted for its serial, cynical inaccuracy by anyone with the brains to spell the words &#8211; a &#8220;campaign&#8221; based on the two sole concepts of &#8220;taxing the rich&#8221; and tearing down Tom Emmer &#8211; and outspending the Emmer campaign 2:1, you eked out a half-point &#8220;victory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a proud day.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve gone to show that with millions of dollars of inherited money and  the slavering servitude of a lot of union donors, any little boy can  grow up to back into office with 42% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when you&#8217;re crowned, you will face two chambers of red-hot, motivated, unified conservative Republican majorities.\u00a0 They will not be the inside-the-beltway post-Gingrich-era RINO hamsters that you got used to &#8220;reaching across the aisle&#8221; with in DC.\u00a0 They are not the RINOs you remember from your time in the State House.\u00a0 These are Tea Party Republicans; conservatives who&#8217;ve been sent to Saint Paul by a majority that said &#8220;come back with your shields, or on them&#8221;.\u00a0 On a mission to cut the spending, cut the taxes, cut the regulations&#8230;<em>to oppose everything you stand for.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And beyind them, there are a whole lot of people like <em>me<\/em>.\u00a0 Who are going to damn well hold them to those promises.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Dayton:\u00a0 Your agenda is dead on arrival.\u00a0 Your &#8220;budget plan&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=117\">as big a fraud as it was<\/a>, is now legislative toilet paper.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a feeling out there that you&#8217;ll be a one term governor &#8211; maybe.\u00a0 Maybe less.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m &#8220;the loyal opposition&#8221; &#8211; but after the campaign you <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">ran <\/span>paid others to run, the emphasis is on opposition.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to spend the next four years working to retire you for good.<\/p>\n<p>So welcome to office, Governor Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with Emmer&#8217;s apparently-upcoming concession, you&#8217;re the Governor-elect, now, Mark Dayton. Congratulations. After pouring millions of dollars of your family&#8217; s money into the most toxic, slimy, sleazy campaign in Minnesota gubernaturial history, a campaign noted for its serial, cynical inaccuracy by anyone with the brains to spell the words &#8211; a &#8220;campaign&#8221; based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,144,2],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-15945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945","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=15945"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47634,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions\/47634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}