{"id":30512,"date":"2012-09-19T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30512"},"modified":"2012-09-19T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:57:46","slug":"when-recycling-is-just-plain-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30512","title":{"rendered":"When Recycling Is Just Plain Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Fourth CD &#8211; St. Paul, Ramsey and an unfortunate tail of Washington counties &#8211; and I&#8217;ve focused mostly on that Congressional race so far.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re a conservative, you need to pay attention to the race in CD8, where Chip Cravaack &#8211; one of the single greatest Cinderella stories of the 2010 cycle &#8211; is fighting a\u00a0<em>very\u00a0<\/em>tough re-election bid.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s up against Rick Nolan, an old-school northwoods ultraliberal DFLer who served in Congress back in the statist seventies. \u00a0While the MN DFL is an intellectual throwback to a time when neither US industry nor the notion of big government had any real challenges, Nolan is a literal throwback:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jobs be damned<\/strong>: \u00a0Nolan sided with Twin Cities environmentalists and the EPA to block the PolyMet mine &#8211; and the 500 jobs it&#8217;d have brought to an area that could really,\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>use 500 jobs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We All Belong To Government:\u00a0<\/strong>Back when he was in Congress, he repeatedly voted to jack up small business taxes &#8211; and has given us no indication he&#8217;d be any less a tax-extremist than Barack Obama or Mark Dayton.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A One-Man Death Panel<\/strong>:\u00a0Nolan supports Obamacare, which would gut the Medicare that so many of his constituents depend on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The American Action Network just released an infographic about Nolan:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=30513\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30513 alignnone\" title=\"MN08RickNolanInfoGraphic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MN08RickNolanInfoGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MN08RickNolanInfoGraphic.jpg 404w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MN08RickNolanInfoGraphic-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MN08RickNolanInfoGraphic-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s suitable for framing and sending to any relatives you have up north.<\/p>\n<p>Or just emailing. \u00a0Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The DFL is trying to tell northern Minnesota that they can return to their glory days of the 1960&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s by returning to the government of the era. \u00a0It&#8217;s just not true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Fourth CD &#8211; St. Paul, Ramsey and an unfortunate tail of Washington counties &#8211; and I&#8217;ve focused mostly on that Congressional race so far. But if you&#8217;re a conservative, you need to pay attention to the race in CD8, where Chip Cravaack &#8211; one of the single greatest Cinderella stories 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":[155],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-30512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional","tag-mn-cd8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512","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=30512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30515,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions\/30515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}