{"id":19792,"date":"2011-05-05T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19792"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:38:33","slug":"profiles-in-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19792","title":{"rendered":"Profiles In Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Some <\/em>Republicans have claimed that the DFL has spent the six weeks since the GOP introduced a balanced, tax-hike-free budget &#8220;loafing&#8221; and &#8220;running out the clock&#8221; (when they&#8217;re not clutching their pearls about the GOP ignoring the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2011\/04\/20\/flashback-sometimes-we-ignore-fiscal-notes\/\">suddenly-&#8220;non-partisan<\/a>&#8221; Minnesota Management and Budget fiscal notes).<\/p>\n<p>But we know better.<\/p>\n<p>The DFL has whiled away its free hours tackling the legislation that <em>matters<\/em>, dammit!:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to Senate Minority (<em>I can repeat that over and over all day long! &#8211; Ed<\/em>) leader Tom Bakk, moose hunters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2011\/04\/20\/flashback-sometimes-we-ignore-fiscal-notes\/\">are no longer encumbered<\/a> by height limits on their moose stands! \u00a0All the better to eliminate the moose scourge!<\/li>\n<li>The state&#8217;s deficit in numbers of official mammals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/blogs\/121182144.html\">has been reduced from one to zero,<\/a> thanks to the DFL!<\/li>\n<li>Joe Atkins (DFL, Inver Grove Heights), who is currently Ryan Winkler&#8217;s understudy as the DFL Minority Co-Snark (along with Rep. John &#8220;J\u00e4germeister&#8221; Lesch\u00a0[1]), tackled the vital work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/revisor\/pages\/search_status\/status_detail.php?b=House&amp;f=HF1517&amp;ssn=0&amp;y=2011\">trying to establish a state Pipe Band<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you, DFL!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Doy. \u00a0Neither party focuses exclusively on the budget, or anything else. \u00a0Both parties are sent to Saint Paul to do more than just crank out a budget &#8211; although that&#8217;s the big, dirty job. \u00a0It&#8217;s just that the DFL&#8217;s &#8220;what is the GOP doing?&#8221; meme is just, well, so stupid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[1] No, it&#8217;s an honorific. \u00a0In the Guard, Lesch is a light infantryman &#8211; which in German is called a <em>J\u00e4ger<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0And since he&#8217;s a platoon leader, he&#8217;s a <em>J\u00e4germeister<\/em>, a &#8220;master of <em>J\u00e4ger<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Why, what did <em>you <\/em>think I was saying, you monocultural clod?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Republicans have claimed that the DFL has spent the six weeks since the GOP introduced a balanced, tax-hike-free budget &#8220;loafing&#8221; and &#8220;running out the clock&#8221; (when they&#8217;re not clutching their pearls about the GOP ignoring the suddenly-&#8220;non-partisan&#8221; Minnesota Management and Budget fiscal notes). But we know better. The DFL has whiled away its free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,132],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-19792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mn-legislature","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792","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=19792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19794,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792\/revisions\/19794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}