{"id":2228,"date":"2008-03-07T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T11:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2008-03-07T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T11:36:22","slug":"petards-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"Petards Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For starters; if you&#8217;ve not been reading Michael Brodkorb&#8217;s extended coverage of Al Franken&#8217;s labor scandal in New York City (he allegedly didn&#8217;t pay &#8220;Al Franken Inc&#8217;s&#8221; workmen&#8217;s comp bills), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\">you should get caught up<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n<p>But I was drawn in particular to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2008\/03\/06\/frankens-spokewoman-lashes-out-at-media-mn-gop-over-frankens-25000-workers-comp-fine\/\">this bit here<\/a>; a spokesman for Franken bemoans the plight of the small businessperson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;We&#8217;re not actually sure what happened at this point. As most small business owners know, when you&#8217;re dealing with bureaucratic entities sometimes they make the mistake, sometimes you do,&#8217; she said. <font color=\"#ff0000\">&#8216;We don&#8217;t know which one happened in this case but we&#8217;re going to pay the fine in good faith so our accountant can deal with it on his time not the presses and not the Republican party&#8217;s.&#8217;<\/font>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You read that right; a representative of the would-be candidate of the party of lumpen, leaden, gray bureaucracy, the party that <em>loves <\/em>small business (as long as they don&#8217;t mind regulation, confiscatory taxes, and being hounded to death should they succeed financially), is whinging about the vagaries of dealing with&#8230;lumpen, leaden gray bureaucracy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For starters; if you&#8217;ve not been reading Michael Brodkorb&#8217;s extended coverage of Al Franken&#8217;s labor scandal in New York City (he allegedly didn&#8217;t pay &#8220;Al Franken Inc&#8217;s&#8221; workmen&#8217;s comp bills), you should get caught up right now. But I was drawn in particular to this bit here; a spokesman for Franken bemoans the plight of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","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=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}