{"id":20936,"date":"2011-07-06T06:16:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:02:05","slug":"carlson-and-mondale-marinading-in-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20936","title":{"rendered":"Carlson And Mondale: Marinading In Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished watching former governor – as in, “not the governor anymore” – Arne Carlson on Channel 11’s morning show. \u00a0The former – as in, “hasn’t been elected in 17 years” – governor was promoting his “independent” budget commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I didn’t hear much; I was too busy yelling at the TV. \u00a0Having that smug, sanctimonous fop back on the TV still makes my wallet hurt.<\/p>\n

But I do recall that his little spiel was clogged with references to “the way we used to do things in Minnesota”; code for “parties working together”. \u00a0As in “cooperation among elected officials, with no “extremists” hijacking the process to their ends”.<\/p>\n

So what do we have here in Minnesota?<\/p>\n

A legislative branch whose overwhelming<\/em> majority agrees on a budget is being held up…<\/p>\n

…by the Governor.<\/p>\n

Is that the sort of “cooperation” that Carlson is talking about?<\/p>\n

Or are his scruples purely partisan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished watching former governor – as in, “not the governor anymore” – Arne Carlson on Channel 11’s morning show. \u00a0The former – as in, “hasn’t been elected in 17 years” – governor was promoting his “independent” budget commission. I didn’t hear much; I was too busy yelling at the TV. \u00a0Having that smug, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,127],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-20936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936","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=20936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20938,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions\/20938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}