{"id":27846,"date":"2012-05-10T05:41:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T10:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27846"},"modified":"2012-05-10T05:41:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T10:41:39","slug":"well-we-needed-more-taxes-anyway-didnt-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27846","title":{"rendered":"Well, We Needed More Taxes Anyway, Didn’t We?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like the stadium is a done deal. \u00a0The fat lady is warming up in the locker room.<\/p>\n

And people – Republicans, mostly, although there are exceptions – are angry about it. \u00a0 Some are angry enough to start a Facebook group to yak about un-endorsing Legislators<\/a> (Republicans, naturally, mostly) who voted for the stadium.<\/p>\n

Now, setting up Facebook pages is easy and cheap. \u00a0Primarying legislators is work, and expensive. \u00a0 Keep it all in context.<\/p>\n

But there is<\/em>\u00a0a valid point, there; Republicans ran on a “fiscal responsibility” platform – and then caved in to a billionaire seeking Wilfare.<\/p>\n

There is a valid response; the team tapped<\/del> exploited this state’s boundless reserves of sentiment for our team. \u00a0And they exploited the key fact about Mark Dayton; he was elected by the stupid, and Dayton and his people know how to make the stupid turn out. \u00a0Daily during the stadium debate yahoos in purple staggered about the halls of the capitol and wrote beer-stained letters and misspelled but irate emails demanding that the stadium pony up for their recreation, their “tradition” (of losing), “their” team. \u00a0And that adds up to votes. \u00a0Stupid, entitled, spoiled-rotten votes? \u00a0Yep. \u00a0And they count just as much as the votes of smart, or at least ethical, people.<\/p>\n

And the bitch of it is this; a legislator can have voted right on every single issue – the budget, taxes, deregulation – but if they’re threatened with losing office to a worthless DFL challenger who puts on a purple cap and bellows on cue, what the hell good is any of it?<\/p>\n

Republicans who voted for the stadium owe the voter an explanation. \u00a0There are a few I’m willing to accept; if a conservative with a 75+ rating from the Taxpayers League is in a district where he or she is up by less than five in a district full of pinheads who dress up like vikings, I’ll buy it.<\/p>\n

More either this noon or tomorrow, depending on how much I like putting the numbers together.<\/p>\n

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