{"id":36376,"date":"2013-05-17T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36376"},"modified":"2013-05-17T07:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:49:48","slug":"the-way-the-racket-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36376","title":{"rendered":"The Way The Racket Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes notes the MNGOP&#8217;s big problem. \u00a0I&#8217;ll add emphasis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The DFL Governor and DFL Legislators have cut a deal to give more money to children and unions and have it all done by Tuesday. If only those pesky Republicans would agree.<\/p>\n<p>Which they won&#8217;t of course, since this is the same pie-in-the-sky nonsense the DFL has been spouting all along, when not devoting the session to social issues such as gun control, gay marriage and bullying in schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And when Republicans don&#8217;t blindly sign on to the DFL program, why then the shut-down and special session and laying-off-of-cops will all be Republicans fault<\/strong>. Because Democrats had it all worked out, you see, and the Republicans ruined it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We need better PR people, so WE can get ahead of the news cycle, for once<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the MNGOP and the caucuses will ever figure that out. \u00a0The way they&#8217;re doing it just isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes notes the MNGOP&#8217;s big problem. \u00a0I&#8217;ll add emphasis: The DFL Governor and DFL Legislators have cut a deal to give more money to children and unions and have it all done by Tuesday. If only those pesky Republicans would agree. Which they won&#8217;t of course, since this is the same pie-in-the-sky nonsense the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,132,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-mn-legislature","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376","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=36376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36378,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376\/revisions\/36378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}