{"id":291,"date":"2007-01-03T07:57:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T13:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/03\/hang-onto-your-wallets\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:03:26","slug":"hang-onto-your-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Hang Onto Your Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strib is happy with<\/a> Pawlenty’s tone at his inauguration:<\/p>\n

As Pawlenty acknowledged, achieving shared government won’t be easy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love that term; “shared government”.<\/p>\n

You can bet that had Mike Hatch choked a few thousand more votes out last November, the “s” word would be nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

especially if it’s to achieve more than a too-easy, least-common-denominator result. But in the 2006 election, restive voters signaled an impatience with petty politics that gets in the way of quality-of-life gains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh-what?<\/p>\n

OK.\u00a0 I suppose it’s possible that there are voters out there who are dumb enough to think that “funding government” equals “quality of life” – and that paying more to the State will make your life better.\u00a0 But if the Strib editorial board thinks that November 7 was about “gridlock” in Saint Paul, it’d explain a lot of other things.<\/p>\n

Pawlenty appeared yesterday to be reading the electorate accurately, and responding. If the Legislature does the same, a truly productive governing season could be dawning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The three most terrible words in the life of any hard-working, schmuck taxpayer: “productive governing season”.<\/p>\n

Oh, Governor Pawlenty; if you don’t run that veto pen red-hot, you and I are going to go ’round and ’round.<\/p>\n

Rhetorically speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Strib is happy with Pawlenty’s tone at his inauguration: As Pawlenty acknowledged, achieving shared government won’t be easy I love that term; “shared government”. You can bet that had Mike Hatch choked a few thousand more votes out last November, the “s” word would be nowhere to be found. especially if it’s to achieve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22616,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}