{"id":20476,"date":"2011-06-10T06:29:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20476"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:02:39","slug":"compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20476","title":{"rendered":"“Compromise”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are some in Minnesota – think the Independence Party and the wonky class who love tinkering with the machinery of government (pardon the redundancy) who believe in “compromise” because to them, the process of goverment is <\/em>the goal of government. \u00a0Principle be damned – Process is the golden idol.<\/p>\n

There are others in Minnesota who believe that compromise is just what parties in Minnesota tradtionally do. <\/em>It’s BS, of course. \u00a0The traditional Minnesota political “compromise” involves seettling on some version of DFL\/”progressive” policy or another.<\/p>\n

And there are others who pimp for compromise because otherwise, they lose<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But they all have one thing in common; anyone who says the MNGOP hasn’t compromisedon the budget…<\/p>\n

Comparison Budget Offers In General Spending<\/a> <\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

…is lying.<\/p>\n

Or – let’s be charitable – parroting DFL chanting points.<\/p>\n

Not that compromise with the DFL is in and of itself a good thing, much less a worthy goal. \u00a0But facts are facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are some in Minnesota – think the Independence Party and the wonky class who love tinkering with the machinery of government (pardon the redundancy) who believe in “compromise” because to them, the process of goverment is the goal of government. \u00a0Principle be damned – Process is the golden idol. There are others in Minnesota […]<\/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":[186],"class_list":["post-20476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476","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=20476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20478,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions\/20478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}