These things always pick up around election time:<\/p>\n
The ReTHUGliCONs in the Legislature did teh terrible job; shutting down teh state government and not doing anything\u00a0other than teh culture war!: \u00a0 <\/strong>Yep. \u00a0Nothing!<\/p>\n Oher than\u00a0eliminating\u00a0the \u201cdeficit\u201d without raising taxes, of course. Or keeping the state\u2019s unemployment rate a point or two below the national average, or enacting some key regulatory reforms in the face of a dilatory and disingenuous governor?<\/p>\n FYI,\u00a0Dayton chose the shutdown, not the GOP, which was negotiating with him ’til the last second, and observed that there was really nothing they could say or do that’d prevent Dayton from shutting down except completely caving in. \u00a0Which, for all of you who remember Dayton’s palaver during the campaign about “reaching across the aisle” and “bipartisanship”, should ring a bell or two (and don’t even think about saying the GOP didn’t give; the GOP gave on between two and five billion dollars in spending, depending on the budget proposal \u00a0you look atl.<\/p>\n And it was only when the “Governor” went to \u201crallies\u201d in Albert Lea and St. Paul, sparsely attended by dispirited government union employees, that he retreated to Saint Paul and dealt on the deal.<\/p>\n Of course, his PR cover \u2013 from the Strib<\/em> all the way down to\u00a0Minnesota Progressive Project<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 has been running cover for those facts ever since.<\/p>\n Didn’t you say you thought Obama would win?<\/strong>: \u00a0Until recently I figured it was fairly certain he would. \u00a0Incumbency is a tough nut to crack. \u00a0Incumbents who have the entire mainstream media serving as their Praetorian Guard are even worse.<\/p>\n But the full statement, remember, is “I think the President will win; in fact, if the President doesn’t flip twenty seats in the Senate and 75 in the House, it’ll be a pretty humiliating exercise”. \u00a0It’s at least partly smack-talk, partly commentary on the dreamy millenarianism of Obama’s original support. \u00a0After four (?) years, our economy sucks worse than ever, our standing in the world is diminished (except among chuckleheaded media and social elites, in a few cases), and our society is on the brink of a fiscal cliff I’m not sure Calvin Coolidge could ward off. \u00a0So yes, “light worker”; work your freaking magic!<\/p>\n You Are Teh Heppocreet! When Polls were showing Democrats ahead, you said “look at teh partisan breakdownz!” \u00a0But now that Mittens is leading, you are quiet about them!<\/strong>: \u00a0Have you looked at the partisan breakdowns? \u00a0They still have Dems in the majority. \u00a0Not “Bigger and badder than 2008” majorities, like the Minnesota Poll, but majorities. \u00a0And yet Mitt is closing in on all the polls where he’s not ahead.<\/p>\n Tell you what – you don’t like the polls, you go ahead and do the analysis. \u00a0Note: \u00a0“Rasmussen is teh ReTHUGliCON, ZOMG” is not “analysis”. \u00a0I don’t care what the Daily Kos says.<\/p>\n In these “Frequently Asked Questions” posts, you frequently show your as pre-literate trolls with bad spelling. \u00a0Why?<\/strong> \u00a0I blame Twitter. \u00a0It’s exposed me to way too many lefties who are not only wrong, but both depraved and illiterate. \u00a0The best thing the Democrat Party can do is bar its members from being on Twitter unless they pass an intelligence and literacy test.<\/p>\n Don’t believe me? \u00a0I invite you to a day in my Twitter world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These things always pick up around election time: The ReTHUGliCONs in the Legislature did teh terrible job; shutting down teh state government and not doing anything\u00a0other than teh culture war!: \u00a0 Yep. \u00a0Nothing! Oher than\u00a0eliminating\u00a0the \u201cdeficit\u201d without raising taxes, of course. 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