{"id":42618,"date":"2014-03-24T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42618"},"modified":"2014-03-23T22:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T03:53:38","slug":"chanting-points-memo-the-head-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42618","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: The Head Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Soucheray got fooled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The entire Twin Cities media has either been fooled, or is playing along. \u00a0 I vote “playing along”.<\/p>\n

Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton and Senate Majority Leader Bakk aren’t “fighting”, or “at odds”, or “in a conflict” over the DFL’s so-called “tax cuts” (which, let’s not forget, “cut” less than 10% of the\u00a0four billion dollars\u00a0<\/strong>worth of tax hikes the DFL jammed down back in 2013).<\/p>\n

This is all theater. \u00a0 And it’s about as spontaneous as a porn shoot.<\/p>\n

Signs the DFL planned this from the ground up? \u00a0 Ask yourself this; why is Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton, who is up for re-election this year, “in conflict” with Tom Bakk – who is not up for re-election this year – and not Paul Thissen, who is?<\/p>\n

The entire “story” is a carefully-manicured charade designed to make Mark Dayton – who signed\u00a0four billion dollars\u00a0<\/strong>worth of tax hikes last year with little more thought (and perhaps little more knowledge) than he’d use signing a credit card receipt at the Oceanaire – look like a “tax cutting moderate” compared with the Senate (who are utterly safe for the next two years, and for whom the media will help engineer something in two years anyway), but heaven forbid not the House, who are,\u00a0mirabile dictu<\/em>, not involved in this particular fracas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Soucheray got fooled. The entire Twin Cities media has either been fooled, or is playing along. \u00a0 I vote “playing along”. Governor Messinger Dayton and Senate Majority Leader Bakk aren’t “fighting”, or “at odds”, or “in a conflict” over the DFL’s so-called “tax cuts” (which, let’s not forget, “cut” less than 10% of the\u00a0four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,130,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42618","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=42618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42624,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42618\/revisions\/42624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}