{"id":768,"date":"2007-04-30T05:59:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/30\/betting-has-opened\/"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:51:54","slug":"betting-has-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Betting Has Opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib sets the stage for the usual, closing-rush budget battle in the Legislature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far, Pawlenty&#8217;s attitude has amounted to &#8220;fat chance.&#8221; Secure in the knowledge that DFLers need Republican votes to thwart his will, the governor instead has threatened to veto every spending bill in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Who wins the staredown in the final three weeks of the legislative session could determine whether schools get their biggest funding increase in years, who gets health care and whether Minnesota&#8217;s rich will pay the highest state income tax rate in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>That may sound like all the ingredients necessary for a stalemate similar to the deadlock in 2005, which led to a partial government shutdown and a special legislative session. But DFLers and Pawlenty sound acutely aware that there are few special session scenarios in which either side emerges a winner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take our bets for the stock characters we&#8217;ll see in the Strib over the next three weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans who criticize the Governor and side with the DFL being portrayed as &#8220;courageous&#8221;, &#8220;mavericks&#8221; and &#8220;a nod to the good old days when the GOP and DFL got along&#8221;; 2000-1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li>The Taxpayers&#8217; League portrayed as the villains: 22000-1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li>Schools being depicted as cash-starved underdogs: 300-1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li>Peevish huffing from Nick Coleman to the GOP to act the way the GOP did back in the seventies, when the GOP acted like beaten dogs who only wanted the DFL to love them:\u00a0 5-1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li>Arrogant snarking from Doug Grow to the GOP to act the way the GOP did back in the seventies, when the GOP acted like beaten dogs who only wanted the DFL to love them:\u00a0 12-1 in favor.<\/li>\n<li>Anguished plea from Lori Sturdevant to the GOP to act the way the GOP did back in the seventies, when the GOP acted like beaten dogs who only wanted the DFL to love them:\u00a0 500,000-1 in favor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The floor is open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib sets the stage for the usual, closing-rush budget battle in the Legislature: So far, Pawlenty&#8217;s attitude has amounted to &#8220;fat chance.&#8221; Secure in the knowledge that DFLers need Republican votes to thwart his will, the governor instead has threatened to veto every spending bill in sight. Who wins the staredown in the final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49844,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/49844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}