“We’re trying to find a caddy,” said a protester posing as Boehner. The Boehner impersonator stood beside impersonators of Minnesota Reps. Michele Bachmann, Erik Paulsen, Chip Cravaack and John Kline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The “impersonators” were actually people wearing large cardboard cutouts of unflattering photos of the various politicians’ heads, looking like they were cut out from “Dump Bachmann” and blown up. \u00a0After eight years of constant caterwauling, they can’t even muster the energy to do those annoying papier-mache puppets anymore.<\/p>\n
“The people that we were speaking with were the job creators. They’re the people who employ Minnesotans,” Cravaack said of the attendees. “So we’re asking the question to them, ‘What is it going to take for you to invest in yourselves and create jobs?'”<\/p>\n
He added that businesses are skittish about making that investment with the threat of new taxes and regulations from the Obama administration.<\/p>\n
“Taxing companies right now in a recession is not going to create jobs,” Cravaack said. “It’s going to take jobs away.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But to the progressive worldview, it’s government’s job to create <\/em>jobs.<\/p>\nHow?<\/p>\n
By hiring lots of people who’ve never used shovels for a living for “shovel-ready” jobs? (What the hell<\/em>\u00a0is a “shovel-ready” job? \u00a0Outside of patching streets, what job in the world today actually uses shovels?)<\/p>\nBy waving the magic government wand, perhaps?<\/p>\n
They can’t even think of original chanting points:<\/p>\n
Protesters accused the Minnesota congressmen of meeting with wealthy donors while proposing cuts to the middle class and not creating jobs. One sign read “People before profits,” and the crowd chanted “Hey-hey-ho-ho, corporate greed has got to go.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Criminy – even Saul Alinsky is rolling in his grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Poor “Progressives”. They can’t win elections. \u00a0Their politicians can’t do budgets (or, if they do, can never, ever make them work. \u00a0Even with years of unfettered control (from 2008 through 2010), \u00a0they can’t do anything useful with the economy. And now\u00a0even their protests suck:. “We’re trying to find a caddy,” said a protester posing as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,68,24,155],"tags":[161,162,166],"class_list":["post-21821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-culture-war","category-mn-congressional","tag-mn-cd2","tag-mn-cd3","tag-mn-cd8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21821"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23868,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21821\/revisions\/23868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}