{"id":4805,"date":"2009-05-19T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:01:43","slug":"fearless-predictions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4805","title":{"rendered":"Fearless Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that theLegislature has adjourned without the DFL majority&#8217;s budget passed, and with Governor Pawlenty promising to use the line-item veto to unallot the budget back into balance, look for the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strike>Predictions from DFLers of bodies lying in the street <\/strike>(oops &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidKaplanMN\/status\/1844281710\">already happened<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Threats from liberal-run school districts that they&#8217;ll have to close, followed by exactly <em>zero <\/em>schools closed, at least due to state budget cuts.<\/li>\n<li>More predictions from DFLers of bodies lying in the street.<\/li>\n<li>Lamentations that &#8220;the governor abused his plurality&#8221;, which are not only shrieking points, but dumb ones; the governor is an elected <em>executive<\/em>, not a pluralistic deliberative body.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why the Legislature is given the opportunity to <em>override his vetos<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Threats from cities to lay off cops and firemen (leaving city garbage collectors, administrators, civil rights commissioners, convention planners, community planning organizers, planning\/policy wonks and layer upon layer of other bureaucrats unmentioned and untouched, because people don&#8217;t get <em>scared into writing their legislatores to demand tax hikes <\/em>to protect any of those jobs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if all of the above haven&#8217;t happened by the end of the day today, I&#8217;ll rhetorically eat my hat.\u00a0 Or would, if I owned any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that theLegislature has adjourned without the DFL majority&#8217;s budget passed, and with Governor Pawlenty promising to use the line-item veto to unallot the budget back into balance, look for the following: Predictions from DFLers of bodies lying in the street (oops &#8211; already happened) Threats from liberal-run school districts that they&#8217;ll have to close, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","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=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22580,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions\/22580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}