Minnesota hits government shutdown

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/928837/391/What-will-be-open-or-closed

Of course to the Republicans gay marriage was more important than a budget.

Reality check: the GOP passed a budget.

Dayton vetoed that budget after the legislature adjurned. Dayton has refused to call the legislature into special session to debate another budget bill.

Sounds familiar.  Oh yeah, like two years ago when Pawlenty vetoed the revenue bill that created a balanced budget after the DFL legislature adjourned and refused to call a special session, instead unconstitutionally single-handedly making the cuts he wanted.

1) Yours is a giant aside. The claim you made was that the attention paid  to man-woman marriage by the legislature prevented the legislature from addressing the budget was simply false.


2) You are offering the child's playground excuses that "Tommy did it first!, and, "Timmy did it worse!"


3) Taking you account at face value, I, suppose, that this creates the precident that Dayton could make the cuts he prefers over the cuts the legislature passed. Opps! Wait! Dayton wanted to raise taxes that requires a vote of the legislature. Never mind.

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Well, Dayton has been 50% right and the GOP legislature has been 100% right.

Can someone please call the dogcatcher?

[Landslide Lyndon]

And the Democrat caves. I'm ever so surprised.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/minnesota-shutdown-ending-mark-dayton-offers-deal/2011/07/14/gIQAOdxJEI_blog.html

I love the smell of Democrats capitulating in the morning. It smells like...

Unfortunately, no Democratic capitulation yet. Dayton has dropped the tax increase, but, not his insistence on funding abortion, increasing spending by $500,000,000, and protecting the jobs of bureaucrats. The half-billion dollar personal slush fund is a particularly egregious demand.

The shutdown will continue until the bureaucrats realize that 15% reductions are preferable to losing every nonessential position.

[Landslide Lyndon]

And the Democrat caves. I'm ever so surprised.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/minnesota-shutdown-ending-mark-dayton-offers-deal/2011/07/14/gIQAOdxJEI_blog.html

I love the smell of Democrats capitulating in the morning. It smells like...

Unfortunately, no Democratic capitulation yet. Dayton has dropped the tax increase, but, not his insistence on funding abortion, increasing spending by $500,000,000, and protecting the jobs of bureaucrats. The half-billion dollar personal slush fund is a particularly egregious demand.

The shutdown will continue until the bureaucrats realize that 15% reductions are preferable to losing every nonessential position.

I see you wish to pursue childish Alinskite tactics of substituting sarcasm for reasoned debate.

I will let the childishness of your actions speak for themselves.

Frankly, I don't like Alinski. I prefer Chuck Jones.