{"id":854,"date":"2007-05-25T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/25\/not-separated-at-birth\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:40:58","slug":"not-separated-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Not Separated At Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people do\u00a0chutzpah well.\u00a0 Others…not really.<\/p>\n

For example – Tom Delay, getting booked for a trumped-up, politically-motivated ethics charge:<\/p>\n

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It’s like he’s daring his opponents; “go ahead.\u00a0 TRY to use this at election time!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Well played.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Minnesota Senate Majority Leader James Metzen – a DFLer – tries but fails during his photo after being picked up for allegedly driving while intoxicated:<\/p>\n

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(Photo<\/a> via First Ringer at TvM)<\/p>\n

At least, I hope <\/em>that’s chutzpah he’s attempting.\u00a0 Since he got picked up at almost twice the legal limit, I’d say it’s a toss.<\/p>\n

At any rate; chutzpah is a gift.\u00a0 People are <\/em>born with it.\u00a0 I’m not sure it can be created.<\/p>\n

But if it can, Metzen needs some practice.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people do\u00a0chutzpah well.\u00a0 Others…not really. For example – Tom Delay, getting booked for a trumped-up, politically-motivated ethics charge: It’s like he’s daring his opponents; “go ahead.\u00a0 TRY to use this at election time!” Well played. On the other hand, Minnesota Senate Majority Leader James Metzen – a DFLer – tries but fails during his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}