{"id":36698,"date":"2013-06-16T13:04:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36698"},"modified":"2013-06-10T07:09:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:09:38","slug":"doakes-sunday-its-a-start-or-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36698","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  It&#8217;s A Start &#8211; Or An End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Keith Ellison <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/209719011.html\">is trying to learn about business<\/a> because he has no idea how it works or why.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a common problem with Democrats. At least he\u2019s making an effort. But he picked the most liberal &#8220;Republican&#8221; possible to advise him. And he is still pushing the same tired crap: more unions, no Social Security &#8220;cuts&#8221; and taxes galore. Socialism, with an MBA, is still socialism.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That could be a new corollary to Berg&#8217;s Eleventh Law (&#8220;The conservative liberals \u201crespect\u201d for their \u201cconservative principles\u201d will the the one that has the least chance of ever getting elected.&#8221;) \u00a0Perhaps &#8220;The Ellison Corollary to Berg&#8217;s Eleventh Law: \u00a0The &#8220;Republican&#8221; that liberals turn to for their information on &#8220;conservative&#8221; issues will be the least conservative Republican available&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Could also be called the Arne Carlson corollary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Rep. Keith Ellison is trying to learn about business because he has no idea how it works or why. That\u2019s a common problem with Democrats. At least he\u2019s making an effort. But he picked the most liberal &#8220;Republican&#8221; possible to advise him. And he is still pushing the same [&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":[],"class_list":["post-36698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698","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=36698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36702,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698\/revisions\/36702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}