{"id":3382,"date":"2008-09-29T06:21:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T11:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:01:52","slug":"across-that-big-ol-aisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3382","title":{"rendered":"Across That Big Ol’ Aisle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regional pundits that remember the seventies<\/a> constantly bemoan the lack of “bipartisanship” in Minnesota politics.<\/p>\n

Of course, the only “bipartisanship” they seem to get around to is the kind were Republicans act like and coalesce around DFL <\/em>positions.<\/p>\n

Never, ever <\/em>stories like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Longtime DFL legislator Doug Johnson said he was ingrained with the political philosophy of Minnesota legendary Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey \u2014 \u201cThe worst Democrat is better than the best Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

But on Nov. 4, the former chairman of the powerful state Senate Tax Commission, will split his vote for the first time ever. His ballot will be marked in a familiar Democratic way for Barack Obama for president, Jim Oberstar for 8th District congressman, Tom Bakk for state senator and David Dill for state representative. But in the U.S. Senate race, Johnson will cast his vote for incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So when the Override Six betrayed Republican Party principles and stabbed Governor Pawlenty in the back, Lori Sturdevant demanded that the GOP keep a wide, Wide, Wide <\/em>open mind toward their self-interested treachery<\/a>, and chided the GOP for trying to squash the traitors.<\/p>\n

Wonder how Johnson’s move is going to play in the DFL – and with the likes of Sturdevant?<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 Welcome Hot Air readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regional pundits that remember the seventies constantly bemoan the lack of “bipartisanship” in Minnesota politics. Of course, the only “bipartisanship” they seem to get around to is the kind were Republicans act like and coalesce around DFL positions. Never, ever stories like this: Longtime DFL legislator Doug Johnson said he was ingrained with the political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,144,4],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-governor","category-media","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22591,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/22591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}