{"id":8837,"date":"2010-02-25T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:59:46","slug":"rhetorical-paxil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8837","title":{"rendered":"Rhetorical Paxil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Mindemann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnpact.org\/sblog\/blog.php?id=2158\">sounds depressed:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wonder if Pawlenty even wants to help anybody. He doesn&#8217;t care about the poor&#8230;we got that loud and clear. He&#8217;s playing games with the bonding bill, which means he is in no hurry to help with jobs. He reversed himself on climate change, which means he doesn&#8217;t give a rip anymore about the environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, where to start?\u00a0 The Minnesota <em>taxpayer<\/em> already pays for some of the best benefits in the United States, so much so that they attract people to move here.\u00a0 There is plenty of wiggle room downward.<\/p>\n<p>The bonding bill was larded with pork, and &#8220;cared about&#8221; mostly government jobs and swag for the construction unions.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/feb\/21\/sea-level-geoscience-retract-siddall\">lots<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704804204575069440096420212.html\">people<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703630404575053781465774008.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion\">reversing<\/a> them<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1250872\/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html\">selves<\/a> on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61C1V420100213\">climate change<\/a>&#8220;; indeed, pretty soon the remaining Warmers will be like those Japanese soldiers who held out in the jungle for thirty years because they refused to believe Hirohito would ever surrender.<\/p>\n<p>So buck up, little camper. Governor Pawlenty cares about all us poor schmuck taxpayers (remmeber us?) who are already getting sucked dry by our wortheless, spendthrift cities and counties.<\/p>\n<p>Glad we could settle that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Mindemann sounds depressed: I wonder if Pawlenty even wants to help anybody. He doesn&#8217;t care about the poor&#8230;we got that loud and clear. He&#8217;s playing games with the bonding bill, which means he is in no hurry to help with jobs. He reversed himself on climate change, which means he doesn&#8217;t give a rip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,144,2,72],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-mngop","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","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=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8854,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}