{"id":16054,"date":"2010-12-08T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:19:18","slug":"governor-dayton-wheres-the-remote-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16054","title":{"rendered":"Governor Dayton: “Where’s the $#&@#@% Remote Control?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dayton Governorship is a distant second to an Emmer Governorship as a Minnesotan but for a conservative blogger, a hell of a lot more fun. Four years of job security!<\/p>\n

(right Mitch? …Mitch?)<\/p>\n

Dayton is (along with his buck-toothed sister the Star Tribune) going to be awesome blogfodder!<\/p>\n

Consider this for example:<\/p>\n

said his first priority now will be to improve the economy and add jobs.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Improve the economy? That’s like improving the weather<\/em>? How does a governor<\/em> improve the economy<\/em>? The “economy” is a symptom, a result. Okay, so it’s a nit, but nonetheless an apropos observation of a nit wit. Let the befuddlement begin.<\/p>\n

…and here comes his buck-toothed sister:<\/p>\n

Those actions complete a stunning resurrection for Dayton, a one-term U.S. senator, who now will become the first Democratic governor in Minnesota in two decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A stunning…less than half percent<\/em>…resurrection? …certainly not the high praise it was intended to be considering the status one must occupy from which to be resurrected, yes?<\/p>\n

Methinks had the election been held one or two days later we’d be celebrating Governor Emmer, which is to say Mark Dayton is a beneficiary of chance.<\/p>\n

…back to the Strib:<\/p>\n

He said he would work with the business sector, which largely opposed his candidacy, to improve the state’s economy and job opportunities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice gesture but that’s okay, Mark. We didn’t need you then and we don’t need you now. I’m sure we can wait four years – in the mean time, if you could just sort of stay out of the way, that’d be best.<\/p>\n

Make sure you have a comfy couch and a big screen TV in the mansion (sorry if it’s smaller than the one you grew up in) so you can be comfortable in your sweats while the legislature conducts the business of the state.<\/p>\n

But be prepared!<\/p>\n

They might need you to sign something, cut a ribbon, or make an appearance from time to time (no talking please – just smile) – so keep one shirt and one suit coat pressed at all times!<\/p>\n

Night-night now little Marky. Take your meds and go to sleep. We’ll wake you when we need you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Dayton Governorship is a distant second to an Emmer Governorship as a Minnesotan but for a conservative blogger, a hell of a lot more fun. Four years of job security! (right Mitch? …Mitch?) Dayton is (along with his buck-toothed sister the Star Tribune) going to be awesome blogfodder! Consider this for example: said his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47633,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions\/47633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}