…how the media would treat a Republican lawmaker who’d accomplished less in 14 years than Betty McCollum?<\/p>\n
“Empty Suit”? \u00a0“Waste of a Chair?” \u00a0I mean, just think of all the things they said about Rod Grams, who accomplished more in eight years than Saint Paul Wellstone did in 12.<\/p>\n
But it’s Betty McCollum whose toenails the\u00a0Strib’s\u00a0<\/em>Allison Sherry has been given the job to paint. \u00a0And so McCollum’s decades of indolence are described thus<\/a>:<\/p>\n McCollum, an understated<\/strong> lawmaker who got her political start on the North St. Paul City Council,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n She’s “understated”.<\/p>\n Hm.<\/p>\n After 14 years in office, her signature accomplishment? \u00a0Attacking National Guards advertisements\u00a0at NASCAR events that cost less per year than building a block and a half of the Central Corridor train line and money pit that she tirelessly championed. \u00a0Less than an eighth of the money she helped dragoon the government into spending on the Union Depot. \u00a0Less than the proverbial fart in the wind compared with the Obamacare debacle she saddled us with (but can’t defend to save her life<\/a>, without lying)?<\/p>\n Understated.<\/p>\n If a Democrat pushed someone off the High Bridge to their death, the media would describe the victim as “damp”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …how the media would treat a Republican lawmaker who’d accomplished less in 14 years than Betty McCollum? “Empty Suit”? \u00a0“Waste of a Chair?” \u00a0I mean, just think of all the things they said about Rod Grams, who accomplished more in eight years than Saint Paul Wellstone did in 12. But it’s Betty McCollum whose toenails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,130,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44360","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=44360"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44371,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44360\/revisions\/44371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}