Tiger Blood
By Mitch Berg
So with the news that Pawlenty staffer Ben Foster had been arrested in Ankeny, Iowa yesterday for drunkenly terrorizing a family, our statesmen leapt into action.
John “Kumar” Lesch – the DFL representative from House District 66A, tweeted:
Nixon hired thugs to invade Democratic headquarters. Pawlenty’s first hire tries to invade your bedroom. Yep, he hasn’t changed. #stribpol
Not sure if “he” is Pawlenty. Not sure if Lesch is sure if “he” is Pawlenty, for that matter; even by Twitter’s neo-literate standards, the post is indecipherable. One wonders if Surly Beer was busy lobbying Lesch at the time.
But it’s a statement worthy of Ryan “Harold” Winkler. A drunken staffer’s idiot pratfall has the same weight as the coverup of the Watergate break-in? (For that matter – Nixon hired Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis? Hm. Who knew?) Foster was “trying to invade” anyone’s “bedroom?”
Whew.
Good thing Lesch is just a legislator, and doesn’t have anything to do with affecting peoples’ lives.
UPDATE: Oops – Lesch is a Ramsey County Prosecutor.
Whooie.
UPDATE 2: Lesch was apparently tweeting on his crackberry from the floor of the House yesterday. He was being hounded by some GOPers on twitter. He (in bold) was hounding right back.
Wed 8:58 pm — @davidolson91: @johnlesch sounds like you’re a little off today. Maybe you’re just sad you got your ass kicked by someone named Mary Jo. #personalproblem
Wed 9:01 pm — @RyanLyk: RT @davidolson91: @johnlesch sounds like you’re a little off today. Maybe you’re just sad you got your ass kicked by someone named Mary Jo. #personalproblem
Wed 9:53 pm — @davegoblirsch: @johnlesch What’s with the weird tweets today? You really shouldn’t let that special election loss bring you down.
Thurs 12:01 am — @johnlesch: Top 3 groups tracking MN budget vote in dead of night: (1) GOP bloggers living in mom’s basement (2) cab drivers (3) night watchmen.
[Ah, the old “Mom’s Basement” bit. That one never gets old. And Lesch is bagging on the GOP for late-night votes? He does remember the last session, doesn’t he? – Ed]
Thurs 1:01 am — @davidolson91: RT @davegoblirsch: @johnlesch What’s with the weird tweets today? You really shouldn’t let that special election loss bring you down.
Thurs 1:20 am — @davidolson91: @johnlesch still stings about that loss huh? Wish you could be staying up at the Capitol accomplishing things? #timetomoveon #itsover
Thurs 1:28 am — @johnlesch: @davidolson91 Step 1: check your MN House roster, Step 2: self-administer swirlie, Step 3: give mom goodnight hug. #mouthbreathersanonymous
Thurs 1:34 am — @davidolson91: @johnlesch Whoops, didn’t realize you were actually trying to contribute to making laws. But then again, *making* is a the key word there.
Thurs 1:40 am — @johnlesch: @davidolson91 No, the key words are, “out-of-your-league”. Go to bed junior. You’re not ready to play with the big kids. #savehimfromhimself
It’d be interesting to see what “league” Lesch thought he was in. I was actually looking forward to offering him equal time on the NARN, had he won the primary…
Thurs 1:45 am — @davidolson91: @johnlesch I wonder how long it took you to understand #twitter? Old farts like you are supposed to shun the new fangled technology? Right?
Thurs 2:02 am — @RyanLyk: @johnlesch funny to see you get so defensive and disrespectful towards @davidolson91 #rolemodel
Thurs 2:41 am — @davidolson91: RT @RyanLyk: @johnlesch funny to see you get so defensive and disrespectful towards @davidolson91 #rolemodel
Thus 8:01 am — @ErikLeist: Rep @johnlesch displayed downright disrespectful behavior last night on twitter while on the house floor http://twitpic.com/4hw9n4 #stribpol
Yeah, having people peck at you on Twitter gets old. The key to it is to ignore the ones that don’t matter. I do it all the time, in case anyone asks…
They don’t matter – do they?
April 7th, 2011 at 8:09 am
Give him some credit. There were no mentions of brown shirts or gas chambers. I guess the DFL is getting more moderate. The Surly beer line was good.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:22 am
I had a friend in college who would get so drunk he would walk into the wrong house while trying to get home. He usually passed out on the couch and the cops would carry him away. Pretty he wasn’t on Nixon’s payroll.
Wonder what the crazest thing Mark Dayton did while bombed.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Wonder what the craziest thing Mark Dayton did while bombed.
Run for governor, I believe. And thanks for the hanging curve ball, Chuck. Much obliged.
April 7th, 2011 at 9:05 am
LOL, Mr. D. Sadly a large number of Minnesota voters must have been bombed last election day. Not counting the ones being transported from group homes of the mentally incompetent, of course. “That’s right, Gerald Ford is spelled M-A-R-K D-A-Y-T-O-N, Tommy. Good boy.”
April 7th, 2011 at 9:33 am
Mr D, you can come over to my house and clean the coffee off my monitor that I spitted out while reading your comment.
I still like the comment made last fall…..every time Dayton gets divorced, he runs for office.
April 7th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
“every time Dayton gets divorced, he runs for office.”
Then quits after the absorbs the settlement!
April 7th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
“he absorbs…”
April 7th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Rejection, psychotropics and an endless supply of money are the foundations of empire for Mr. Dayton. There are a half dozen physicians who will go into hiding if Sir Mark ever drops dead.
April 7th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Who knew Mark Dayton and Michael Jackson had so much in common?
April 8th, 2011 at 6:57 am
This post should be Exhibit A to the bill to ban Twittering by legislators while on public time.
Finish your damned job and go home.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:07 am
Does John Lesch maintain two twitter accounts? I wonder why. There isn’t much difference between @johnlesch and @RepLesch . *shrug*