{"id":20343,"date":"2011-06-01T06:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20343"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:02:39","slug":"chanting-points-memo-the-cult-of-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20343","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: The Cult Of Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"

In anticipation of tonight’s game against the Detroit Tigers, who are ten games ahead of the Twins in the AL Central, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire gave a press conference early this morning.<\/p>\n

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“We’ve done our best to be bipartisan in the run-up to the game”, said Gardenhire, whose team has a .321 record so far this season. \u00a0“The Tigers need to compromise!”<\/p>\n

As the team tries to avert a sweep at Detroit’s “Filth and Crime Stadium”, Gardenhire noted “the Tigers’ manager is being boorish and intransigent; the people overwhelmingly support compromise in tonight’s game”, he said, citing a Star Tribune<\/em> Minnesota poll showing fifty random Minneapolis adults support the Tigers forfeiting tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

“We’ve reached out and given enough”, Gardenhire concluded. \u00a0“It’s time for the Tigers to give a little”.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Dayton’s case for “compromise” is about the same as Gardenhire’s. \u00a0Let’s get clear on a couple of facts here:<\/p>\n

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  1. Dayton’s mandate is\u00a0nonexistent<\/strong>: \u00a0Dayton backed into office with 43% of the vote (DFLers will respond “But Horner favored raising taxes, too!” \u00a0Perhaps, but you can not <\/em>assume Horner’s voters supported him because of taxes; indeed, the DFL’s propaganda machine couldn’t stop reminding people what a “Republican” Horner was during the campaign; it’d be pretty funny for the DFL to try to have it both ways, but hardly unprecedented. It’s every bit as likely that 10% voted for Horner out of blind hatred of Mark Dayton as because taxes make them tingly), the second-lowest in history. \u00a0He’s weak.<\/li>\n
  2. The GOP ‘s mandate is real<\/strong>: The GOP majority in the Legislature, on the other hand, won big, with a broad mandate made even more lopsided by the fact that a disproportionate number of the DFL’s votes came from blowout races in the Metro. \u00a0There was no mistaking it; it was the biggest turnaround in state political history, from the dismal 2008 race to crushing majorities in both chambers. \u00a0The GOP is not only entitled to govern like they won – they’d be disingenuous not to.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The DFL’s only real support on this issue is astroturf<\/a>, bogus polls<\/a>, and endless browbeating.<\/p>\n

    Which is noisy and showy, but doesn’t mean a whole lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In anticipation of tonight’s game against the Detroit Tigers, who are ten games ahead of the Twins in the AL Central, Twins manager Ron Gardenhire gave a press conference early this morning. “We’ve done our best to be bipartisan in the run-up to the game”, said Gardenhire, whose team has a .321 record so far […]<\/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":[186],"class_list":["post-20343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-minnesota-politics","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343","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=20343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20363,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20343\/revisions\/20363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}