{"id":15993,"date":"2010-12-06T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15993"},"modified":"2010-12-06T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:11:38","slug":"cliche-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15993","title":{"rendered":"Cliche Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

2008<\/strong>: “Look at the GOP’s “Circular Firing Squad!\u00a0 They’re not a big tent!\u00a0 That’s why they’re in the minority, and always will be!”<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong>: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad!\u00a0 They’re not a big tent!\u00a0 That’s why we’ll, er, get the majority back next time!”<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad!\u00a0 They’re not a big tent!\u00a0 That’s why this will be the DFL’s last losing cycle, because the recovery brought on by all that spending restraint just can’t last forever!”<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad!\u00a0 You’ve gone and gotten an\u00a0extremist conservative<\/em> \u00a0elected governor!\u00a0 Now<\/em> you’re screwed!”<\/p>\n

Question For Supplemental Discussion<\/strong>:\u00a0 The party that lost both chambers of the legislature, and only leads the governor’s race\u00a0by a cat’s whisker with the aid of a 2:1 spending disparity and an in-the-bag media that refused to discuss Mark Dayton’s record or pathologies, is yakking about the GOP’s internal politics after an election season where their <\/em>endorsed gubernatorial candidate lost the primary, and where their party operations are reported to be in financial disararay.<\/p>\n

A little bit of projection and displacement, maybe?<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas, DFL.\u00a0 Enjoy the holiday season.\u00a0 Your 2011 is going to really suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2008: “Look at the GOP’s “Circular Firing Squad!\u00a0 They’re not a big tent!\u00a0 That’s why they’re in the minority, and always will be!” 2010: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad!\u00a0 They’re not a big tent!\u00a0 That’s why we’ll, er, get the majority back next time!” 2012: “Look at the GOP’s Circular Firing Squad!\u00a0 They’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993","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=15993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15994,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15993\/revisions\/15994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}