{"id":18003,"date":"2011-02-10T08:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T14:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18003"},"modified":"2011-02-10T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:12:21","slug":"chanting-points-memo-the-dfl-hides-the-sausage-making-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18003","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: The DFL Hides The Sausage Making Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dems latest sweeping meme – predating the State of the State, although it certainly appeared in it – is “why won’t the GOP send one big budget bill<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This is a meme – a chanting point – that can only be aimed at the ill-informed and not-well-read.<\/p>\n

Draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n

At any rate, you see this from Democrats all up and down the food chain. \u00a0Small Democrats, like \u00a0Jeff Rosenberg at MNPublius<\/em>, are carrying their masters’ water by telling us “Why A Piecemeal Budget Is Unacceptable<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

A piecemeal approach limits our ability to negotiate. That, of course, is the Republicans\u2019 goal. They hope to trap Dayton into agreeing to their cuts so they don\u2019t have to negotiate. But that sort of political strategy is a terrible way to make policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is, of course, “2+2=5” material. \u00a0A piecemeal approach requires <\/em>negotiation – on every bit and piece of the budget.<\/p>\n

The “piecemeal” approach – what Rep. Holberg calls “how you eat a hippo – one bite at a time” – takes the budget apart, down to all of its 32 billion pieces, or as close to it as has been done in recent years. It shines the light of legislative scrutiny on parts of our budget that have been on autopilot for generations.<\/p>\n

It requires stakeholders in every single piece of that budget to negotiate for it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The DFL, on the other hand, wants to take the Nancy Pelosi approach; they want to bundle up their whole, noxious $39 billion proposal and go at the whole festering mess. \u00a0Like Obamacare, it’ll be such a thick book of gibberish that “we’ll have to pass it to see what’s in it”. \u00a0And since nobody will read it all down to its most infinitesimal detail (other than King Banaian), and no legislative body can possibly sustain a debate on it, the “debate” will turn from the need <\/em>for every single item in the budget to the imperative<\/em> – invariably emotional (“why do you hate children and single mothyrs? \u00a0Why do you want to put dioxin in their formula?”), invariably ill-informed, invariably trite – all traits that favor easy media consumption,and hence the DFL.<\/p>\n

The DFL, above all, doesn’t want you to see how the budgetary sausage is made. <\/strong> They know the skeletons that are hidden deep inside the budget. \u00a0They want You, The People, to remain blissfully, bovinely ignorant, and just shut up and be Happy to Pay For A Better Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The GOP way shows Minnesotans how the sausage is made<\/strong>. That’s just gonna kill <\/em>the DFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dems latest sweeping meme – predating the State of the State, although it certainly appeared in it – is “why won’t the GOP send one big budget bill. This is a meme – a chanting point – that can only be aimed at the ill-informed and not-well-read. Draw your own conclusions. At any rate, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003","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=18003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18005,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions\/18005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}