{"id":4239,"date":"2009-02-18T09:02:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2009-02-18T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T14:02:28","slug":"not-bacon-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4239","title":{"rendered":"Not Bacon. Pork."},"content":{"rendered":"

When you have some downtime today, I have an assignment for you.<\/p>\n

Jeff Rosenberg at the Daily Liberal<\/em> looks at the bill apportioning Minnesota’s share of the Porkulus spending<\/a>, and asks “Where’s the pork?”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to see Minnesota Republicans not just adopting the national Republicans\u2019 strategy, but also their talking points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Ahem.\u00a0 Grrrrrrr<\/a>.\u00a0 Ed<\/em>]<\/p>\n

And of course, they do it even when it doesn\u2019t make sense. Session Daily reports:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rep. Keith Downey (R-Edina) was one of several Republicans who criticized the bill as being hastily constructed and potentially filled with \u201cpork.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Pork? Really? You might disagree with those spending priorities, but are they really pork? Or is this just another example of the word \u201cpork\u201d being used as a meaningless political buzzword?<\/p>\n

I have an idea. I\u2019ll post the entire text of HF 680 below; it\u2019s actually not too long. Righties, please tell me where you think the \u201cpork\u201d is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jeff asked for help.\u00a0 We should lend it to him.<\/p>\n

Jeff helpfully posts the entire bill.\u00a0 Why not skip on over there and show Jeff – not a bad guy, by the way – where the pork is?<\/p>\n

I’ll see you over there.\u00a0 Over lunch, anyway.\u00a0 Time to run to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you have some downtime today, I have an assignment for you. Jeff Rosenberg at the Daily Liberal looks at the bill apportioning Minnesota’s share of the Porkulus spending, and asks “Where’s the pork?” It\u2019s interesting to see Minnesota Republicans not just adopting the national Republicans\u2019 strategy, but also their talking points. [Ahem.\u00a0 Grrrrrrr.\u00a0 Ed] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","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=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}