Republican Vs Democrat

GOP primarily delays day of reckoning in six July contests

Rep. Pasch and her supporters were actually itching to use that July Tuesday to take on incumbent GOP Sen. Alberta Darling, whose chirping rhetoric as co-chair of the joint finance committee failed to disguise how far she has departed from traditional middle-road Republican standards and the fundamental needs of her district’s children. If America can’t cut its way out of debt on the national level, why did Gov. Walker think he could do that by decimating education in Wisconsin under the fabrication of punishing teachers, taking hundreds of dollars away from every kid in the classroom? But Darling did more than steer Walker’s budget through the legislature – she contributed slash and burn ideas so extreme that they clearly cost money as well as potential votes, forcing him into vetoes and her into pretending she never proposed such goofs as paying police offices under criminal indictment – which she did – or arguing that she never fully understood what she was proposing, such as the later abandoned cuts in SeniorCare and the continuing destruction of the waiting list for cost-saving FamilyCare. Perceptive voters in her districts have now joined the protests or quietly sneer at her advertising blitz to the contrary. Yes, it was the loss of bargaining rights that upset unions, but she frankly doesn’t have that many union members in her district. The voters upset, as any stroll down suburban streets will reveal, are her own former supporters who now say she is demeaning the rights of teachers she pretends to respect. They are facing the reality that she has long abandoned the centrist rationale that earlier generations of voters on the North Shore had expected of her. It is her longtime supporter and contributor who is now pretending to be a Democrat, a brazenly undemocratic maneuver--- with a small D -- that mocks her previous welcome of the recall petitions as a chance to outline the differences between her and Pasch. Now she is running from the showdown, going to court to further delay the election and hoping that Aug. 9, the now scheduled date, will give her a chance to run more ads, more evasion and create more distance from her actual actions in the legislature. What allows her to wait until August is this unseemly game of the GOP turning all six July elections into primaries on the Democratic side. Darling and the state Republican Party are not acting embarrassed, as they should, at lying about party affiliation to force a primary.

What the Minnesota state shutdown is all about

Vox Verax "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities." — Adam Smith (1723–1790)

"We can have a democratic society or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both." — Justice Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court, 1916-1939

"Honest politicians, like good scientists, draw conclusions from facts. Dishonest politicians, like bad scientists, draw facts from conclusions. The same is true for the media." — Vox Verax

"If the choice is between belief and science, or between belief and fact, bet on belief. It's a sad part of human nature: Belief wins every time." — Vox Verax

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." — Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993)

People from across the country are hearing about the Minnesota state government shutdown. They know what's happening, and they may have heard that it's the Republican legislature vs. Democratic governor Mark Dayton impasse over the budget. The neutral media, such as Minnesota Public Radio and most of the state's major newspapers, have tried to reflect a "he said, she said" form of impartiality — an example of the unfailing creed of "Minnesota nice". The truth, however, is something different. As a state-legislator-who-shall-not-be-named, a Democrat who respects the views of members of both parties, has told me, it has a lot to do with the last election. First of all, he says, there are reasonable people in both parties. He gets along and can communicate with the senior members of the Republican Party, noting that they are reasonable, hard-working legislators. One of the problems, he notes, is that the new legislators, the first-termers elected in 2010, are absolutely committed to the new conservative agenda of absolutely no tax increases at the state level coupled with social agenda items such as prohibiting abortion, banning stem-cell research and limiting collective bargaining rights of public employees.

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