{"id":19584,"date":"2011-04-27T05:56:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19584"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:36:08","slug":"absurd-theatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19584","title":{"rendered":"Absurd Theatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I coined the various “Berg’s Laws<\/a>“, they were – doyyyyyyy – tongue in cheek.<\/p>\n

And yet for all that, they are absolutely impeccable reflections of human nature . Especially Berg’s Seventh Law:<\/p>\n

Berg\u2019s Seventh Law of Liberal Projection <\/strong>– When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect for liberty, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It popped into mind this past week, when Governor Dayton, the DFL and the media (pardon the serial redundancy) accused the GOP of “theatre of the absurd” in its budget process.<\/p>\n

The House GOP Caucus\u00a0reponded<\/a> – but “Berg’s Seventh Law” could have sufficed.<\/p>\n

Becuase for all of the Governor’s chatter about “absurd drama”, it’s he that’s been stalling. \u00a0Which is, naturally (and according to Berg’s Seventh) behind <\/em>the chatter:<\/p>\n

To help the process along, the Legislature requests of all governors that they submit their bills within 15 days of their recommendations. This year, that deadline was March 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How mal has the governor’s feasance been?<\/p>\n

Agriculture funding bill, introduced March 28, 27 days late.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

State government finance bill, introduced March 28, 27 days late.<\/p>\n

Health and human services budget bill, introduced March 28, 27 days passed deadline.<\/p>\n

Transportation finance bill, introduced March 22, 21 days too late.<\/p>\n

Environment and natural resources funding bill, introduced March 22, 21 days too late.<\/p>\n

Higher education bill, introduced March 21, 20 days too late.<\/p>\n

Governor\u2019s tax increase bill, introduced March 21, 20 days after the deadline.<\/p>\n

Education finance bill, introduced March 17, 16 days passed the deadline.<\/p>\n

To recap: After failing to meet the deadline to even get his own budget bills considered by the Legislature, Governor Dayton is now demanding the Legislature meet his new arbitrary deadline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reason for this – as for most instances of Berg’s Seventh – is simple; Dayton can count on the fact the media will carry and promote his narrative, to cover his own slow, ponderous tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I coined the various “Berg’s Laws“, they were – doyyyyyyy – tongue in cheek. And yet for all that, they are absolutely impeccable reflections of human nature . Especially Berg’s Seventh Law: Berg\u2019s Seventh Law of Liberal Projection – When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives\u2019 ethics, character or respect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,127],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-19584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584","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=19584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33263,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584\/revisions\/33263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}