{"id":19167,"date":"2011-04-04T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19167"},"modified":"2011-04-04T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T13:46:28","slug":"from-planet-humphrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19167","title":{"rendered":"From Planet Humphrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lori Sturdevant plays\u00a0plays chicken and egg<\/a> with Minnesota’s polarization.<\/p>\n

Is Minnesota poltitics “polarized” because there’s a “chasm” between the parties?<\/p>\n

Or is it the opposite?<\/p>\n

I get that. But it could be that the converse is also true.<\/p>\n

My notion: Minnesota Republicans and DFLers are so polarized today because they compromised too infrequently…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I read that bit and thought “maybe she’s onto something. \u00a0Maybe Sturdevant will reference the generations of complete obeisance to the DFL’s tax and spend machine, “opposed” by a MNGOP that actively squelched conservatism and gave Minnesota net double-digit budget increases, biennium over biennium, leaving Minnesota overtaxed and overstaffed and leaving Minnesota conservatives with several generations of catch-up to play?<\/p>\n

Could it be that Sturdevant has perhaps widened her razor-thin sense of selective context?<\/p>\n

…in the past decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

HELL <\/em>no!<\/p>\n

Too many legislative sessions produced a win-lose result — governor wins, Legislature loses.<\/p>\n

The power tools available to a governor who wanted smaller government than the Legislature did made it too convenient for him to have his way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right; Minnesota is “too partisan” because Republicans, operating within the boundaries of the law, did what they were sent to Saint Paul to do. <\/em>Just like Democrats – with Sturdevant’s, and most of the rest of the media’s, blessing – when they get sent to Saint Paul.<\/p>\n

Majorities change. \u00a0But Lori Sturdevant’s DFL cheerleading is truly eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lori Sturdevant plays\u00a0plays chicken and egg with Minnesota’s polarization. Is Minnesota poltitics “polarized” because there’s a “chasm” between the parties? Or is it the opposite? I get that. But it could be that the converse is also true. My notion: Minnesota Republicans and DFLers are so polarized today because they compromised too infrequently… I read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167","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=19167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19168,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167\/revisions\/19168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}