{"id":42599,"date":"2014-03-21T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42599"},"modified":"2014-03-21T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T16:47:27","slug":"nope-no-media-bias-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42599","title":{"rendered":"Nope, No Media Bias <i>At All<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL controls both chambers of the legislature, as well as the Governor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=25707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25707\" title=\"DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE.png 320w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DFLMinistryofTruthLARGE-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They passed four billion dollars in total tax hikes last session, for a net two billion dollars in increases, without a single Republican vote.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>now<\/em> the DFL needs GOP support to change tax policy?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what this piece &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/251344181.html\">GOP senators refuse to be rushed on sweeping tax-relief measure<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; would have you believe.<\/p>\n<p>No, really:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dayton and DFL leaders have rushed to pass the measure to ensure the largest number of Minnesotans can take advantage of more than $50 million in retroactive tax relief by April 15. Senate DFLers used a rare procedure to try to speed passage by a day, but Republicans in the minority used their limited muscle to delay the vote until Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Dayton chastised Senate DFLers for not passing the measure swiftly enough. On Thursday, Dayton and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, joined together to direct their wrath at Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look &#8211; this bill was never intended as anything but an election-year bandaid for the DFL &#8211; allowing them to say &#8220;We cut taxes! (<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">to some favored classes of Minnesotans, for a total of a tiny fraction of the tax hike we unilaterally jammed down two years ago<\/span>)&#8221; in an election year when the MNSure flop and the 2013 tax and spend and gun grab orgy looks certain to cost the DFL dearly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baird Helgeson is, in short, carrying the DFL&#8217;s narrative water:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is no good reason for Senate Republicans to block the bill\u2019s passage,\u201d Dayton said. If Republican legislators force any further delays, \u201cthey will be solely responsible for denying income tax cuts to thousands of Minnesotans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure is nearly certain to pass Friday because Republicans are out of options to block it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahem:\u00a0 <strong>the DFL doesn&#8217;t need one single Republican vote to pass the &#8220;tax cuts&#8221;.\u00a0 Not One.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Why is Baird Helgeson and the Strib carrying the DFL&#8217;s water?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will Rachel Stassen-Berger, Tom Scheck and Bill Salisbury catch the Strib on this fairly egregious bit of journalistic partisan narrative-fluffing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL controls both chambers of the legislature, as well as the Governor&#8217;s office. They passed four billion dollars in total tax hikes last session, for a net two billion dollars in increases, without a single Republican vote. But now the DFL needs GOP support to change tax policy?\u00a0 That&#8217;s what this piece &#8211; &#8220;GOP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,189,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599","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=42599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42601,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions\/42601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}