Cue The Violins
By Mitch Berg
Now that Speaker Thissen has made the eminently sensible move of getting his party out of an issue that is vital to 4% of the voters and deeply unpopular outside the 494/694 beltway – an issue that scuppered the DFL in 2002, indeed – Rep. Michael Paymar has the vapors:
Rep. Michael Paymar, a Democrat from St. Paul who authored the “Gun Violence Prevention Act,” said he was “very disappointed and very angry” that the proposal was no longer moving toward a vote on the House floor. “I think this is the kind of thing that really makes the public cynical about politicians and about the political process,” he said.
That’s right, Rep. Paymar. You copied and pasted bills from other states, tried to ram them through after doing your damnedest to stifle public feedback, let a paid lobbyist introduce “Rep” Hausman’s bill, tried to jam your bill down on a wave of paid lies…
…in support of a bill that is considered absolutely vital by about 4% of the population, a bill that wouldn’t affect crime at all (which has been dropping faster as more people buy guns), with the aid of your buddies in the media that are perfectly happy to carry your lies without question:
Paymar painting the toenails of Jane Kay of “Moms Demand Action” (heh heh) and Representative Martens immediately after a hearing.
Why would anyone get cynical about that?
Try again next year, Mike. We’ll be waiting for you.
May 3rd, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Mmmmm….sweet, sweet tears of a moonbat that has been freshly deprived of its pelt. Nothing better, well almost.
May 3rd, 2013 at 1:02 pm
It sucks that I live in 64B.
May 3rd, 2013 at 1:18 pm
A St. Paul resident that I know, told me that after it was revealed that he was an socialist, Paymar got really scared and supposedly, bought a couple of guns and has them in his home. I certainly wouldn’t doubt that he sees right wing bogeymen behind every tree and bush, so he feels he needs them, but, if true, it would be classic to expose the little weasel for the hypocrite that he is.
May 3rd, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Fisch, you got that right!
Actually 64B is a great place to live, we just have poor representation. Or all our neighbors are nuts!
May 3rd, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Someone ought to ask Paymar how it feels to live in a state and country he despises.
May 3rd, 2013 at 5:03 pm
When I see this picture it looks as if it could be captured in the bowels of Macalester or Hamline. Turns out it’s in the state capitol. Same diff.
May 3rd, 2013 at 5:16 pm
. . .after it was revealed that he was an
socialistkulak, Paymar got really scared and supposedly, bought a couple of guns and has them in his home.Fixed it for ya’!
May 4th, 2013 at 10:24 am
Thanks, Terry!
May 5th, 2013 at 11:56 am
I’m sure that the Minnesota Mao and his cronies are quite happy to have steady work next session and for sessions to come. I doubt that success is as important to them as giving their supporters the impression that he and his allies are busy fighting “the good fight” and can’t be bothered with the other mundane, routine (but important) things. Can’t lose.
Who would Ms. Martens be without the evil gun owners to fight? Just one of many socially privileged seekers of high-profile, self-justifying causes easy to embrace and battle.
High-profile because like blood, guts, sex, and baby animal stories, the MSM can never get enough of it. Self-justifying because all the “right” people and entities also support it. Easy because the concept is (to her/them) simply defined and has a decades, maybe centuries-long, body of pre-scripted and “researched” schemes to follow. (note: my spell check offers “schemer” as an alternative to “Schumer”)
Like school district referendums, a drunken relative, and tent catepillars, they will always come back.