{"id":3769,"date":"2008-12-08T08:51:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2008-12-08T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:51:51","slug":"cy-thao-would-be-smiling-in-his-grave-if-he-werent-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3769","title":{"rendered":"Cy Thao Would Be Smiling In His Grave, If He Weren’t Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cy Thao – a state senator from Saint Paul – earned what (in a just world) would be a footnote in history two years ago, when he summed up the true meaning of socialist\/fabian statist\/Big-L “Liberal” government<\/a> as concisely as anyone in history:<\/p>\n

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When you guys win, you get to keep your money. <\/strong><\/p>\n

When we win, we take your money<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cy Thao (DFL St. Paul), 2007<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Seriously – this is Bartlett’s-grade stuff.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Tom Brokaw gave The Interview That Will Live In Infamy, on Meet The Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Money quote (among many – this one closely paraphrased from memory):<\/p>\n

BROKAW: “Whoy nault teik thus ulpurtoonitty tull raise thul taxes un gaaaus to fower dullars uh gaullon, luyeek peopull wurr prupared tull pay?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Literal Translation:\u00a0 “Why not take this opportunity to raise the taxes on gas to $4\/gallon, like people were prepared to pay”.<\/p>\n

Ethical Translation, from Condo-Pink Limo-Liberal to English:\u00a0 “Neither of us have paid for gas in years, and if you jacked the income tax to levels that even choked the Swedes to death I’ll still be netting seven figures; why not sit down at the great Drum Stool of Power in the White House and imitate Keith Moon?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cy Thao – a state senator from Saint Paul – earned what (in a just world) would be a footnote in history two years ago, when he summed up the true meaning of socialist\/fabian statist\/Big-L “Liberal” government as concisely as anyone in history: When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","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=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}