{"id":28691,"date":"2012-06-29T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28691"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:39:34","slug":"28691","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28691","title":{"rendered":"Peterson Averts Ritual Suicide; DFLers Outraged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Mindeman seems flabbergasted that\u00a0elected officials must be in tune with their voters<\/a>\u00a0on even the most flamingly, sirens-blazingly obvious issues:<\/p>\n

Rep. Colin Peterson has confirmed that there is one thing more important than being a Democrat….one thing more important than principle….one thing more important than the truth.<\/p>\n

That would be: The NRA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, let’s be honest here; it’s not “being a Democrat” that’s been keeping Peterson in office in his fairly conservative district – which, once Peterson retires, will likely become a hard-red district. \u00a0It’s reflecting his constituents.<\/p>\n

And I’m curious what “principle” Mindeman thought Peterson was breaking; to most Americans, keeping government in line – say, when it uses the power of government to try to slander the law-abiding gun owner, or especially when they try to cover up and stonewall the facts of a case that’s led directly to the deaths of hundreds of Mexicans and at least one, and now possibly two federal agents – is the height of\u00a0principle.<\/p>\n

This travesty of a contempt vote, being brought against Attorney General Eric Holder, that the House has insisted upon because the NRA is pulling the puppet strings, has 4 Democrats signing on to it. And one of those four is Colin Peterson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this blog salutes their courage, in bucking the Democrats’ naked power-mongering to stand up for the rule of law.<\/p>\n

The whole issue is a joke. The Fast and Furious policy was a dumb thing to do but to move this whole thing into a contempt vote is even dumber.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think Brian Terry’s family might agree it was a “dumb” thing to do – and would think getting answers from our “public servants” isn’t so dumb at all.<\/p>\n

I doubt Peterson would be giving it one minute of thought except for the fact that the NRA is going so “score” the vote. Scoring a contempt vote? How crazy is that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keeping score on a vote on an issue involving the “Justice” department using government time, resources and power primariliy to slander the NRA’s five million constituents?<\/p>\n

Crazy like a fox – in that “I’d like to get re-elected” sense of the term.<\/p>\n

But this has been crazy from the beginning. Just to gain some political points and satisfy the fantasy world of the NRA’s fear of the “secret Obama war on guns”, they are counting noses for this vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave Mindeman, like many Democrats, believes that Voter ID suppresses legal voting, but can’t believe an administration headed by a President who used to be bankrolled by an anti-gun foundation, and who depends\u00a0disproportionally<\/p>\n

Peterson plans to join in on the sham. And why not? It gets him NRA bonus points while sticking it to the administration – the one he is running away from.<\/p>\n

Even a second amendment supporter like Peterson must know this whole thing is a joke….but then there has never been anything funny about the NRA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But there is plenty funny about the way urban DFLers demonize it. \u00a0The NRA is perhaps one of the grass-rootsiest lobbying organizations there is. \u00a0It has five million paying members – unlike the typical big-money group supporting the DFL (say, “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”, which has one).<\/p>\n

And besides most Republicans, they have plenty of traction among Democrat voters outside the 494-694 circle, who may vote all wrong, but certainly understand that the Second Amendment is a civil right.<\/p>\n

A right that Barack Obama and his administration have been trying – on \u00a0“principle” – to chip away at the best they could since before they were elected.<\/p>\n

A rare kudo to Colin Peterson. \u00a0You finally got one right.<\/p>\n

But feel free to desert him for this one, Democrats.<\/p>\n

BONUS QUESTION: Why doesn’t Mindeman have similar harsh words for CD1’s Tim Walz, who also voted to hold Holder accountable for his coverup? \u00a0 Closing ranks and ignoring it because the CD1 race might be closer, perhaps? \u00a0Do Dems only criticize the \u00a0Democrats they think they can afford <\/em>to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Mindeman seems flabbergasted that\u00a0elected officials must be in tune with their voters\u00a0on even the most flamingly, sirens-blazingly obvious issues: Rep. Colin Peterson has confirmed that there is one thing more important than being a Democrat….one thing more important than principle….one thing more important than the truth. That would be: The NRA Well, let’s be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-28691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-victim-disarmament","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691","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=28691"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47871,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions\/47871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}