{"id":5846,"date":"2009-11-02T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T17:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:06:56","slug":"whaddya-suppose-the-odds-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5846","title":{"rendered":"A Realistic Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/blogs\/67750562.html\">dismissal <\/a>of yet another &#8220;ethics complaint&#8221; against Norm Coleman&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint by the state DFL accusing former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of using campaign funds for personal use to pay legal fees stemming from a lawsuit in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The FEC today reported the dismissal of the complaint in September. It earlier dismissed a similar complaint by the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, a group allied with Democratic causes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;perhaps it&#8217;s time to confront the very real probability that <em>every single &#8220;ethics complaint<\/em>&#8221; lodged by Democrats against Republicans should be treated as nothing more than a nuisance, as chanting-point fodder for the lefty alt-media, until proven otherwise?\u00a0 Sort of the rhetorical equivalent of another &#8220;9\/11 Truth&#8221; or &#8220;the Moon Landing was fake!&#8221; conspiracy?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d save a lot of time, money and energy.\u00a0 That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I know &#8211; it&#8217;s a purely rhetorical point.\u00a0 It&#8217;d involve the media, which is universally, utterly in the bag for the left, being honest about their motivations.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t hold your breath).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the dismissal of yet another &#8220;ethics complaint&#8221; against Norm Coleman&#8230; The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint by the state DFL accusing former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of using campaign funds for personal use to pay legal fees stemming from a lawsuit in Texas. The FEC today reported the dismissal of the complaint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","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=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}