{"id":53274,"date":"2015-05-13T06:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53274"},"modified":"2015-05-13T06:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:21:56","slug":"crocodile-tears-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53274","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Minnesota DFLers talk &#8220;bipartisanship&#8221; and &#8220;getting beyond politics&#8221;, you have to remember \u2013 it&#8217;s just talk.<\/p>\n<p>The DFL is stalling on a budget deal, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk is already talking about a special session &#8211; with a high likelihood of no agreement, followed by the shutdown that, many think, the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/303540571.html\">DFL has been angling for all alon<\/a>g:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bakk signaled Tuesday that he\u2019s already given some thought to a special session scenario, mentioning in an interview that he\u2019d seen polling data indicating that Republicans would bear a greater share of the shutdown blame. \u201cIt\u2019s not good for the institution, and I would certainly rather that it not happen,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason this can\u2019t get done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Other than &#8220;Tom Bakk would rather benefit the DFL than &#8220;the institution&#8221;, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Minnesota DFLers talk &#8220;bipartisanship&#8221; and &#8220;getting beyond politics&#8221;, you have to remember \u2013 it&#8217;s just talk. The DFL is stalling on a budget deal, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk is already talking about a special session &#8211; with a high likelihood of no agreement, followed by the shutdown that, many think, the DFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274","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=53274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53284,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274\/revisions\/53284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}