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02 July 2010
Much has been said about the DFL's current "chanting point," taunting GOP Gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer to define exactly "where he will cut" to bring State spending into line with revenues. Mr. Emmer is very wisely not
taking the bait. It's the same tired old playbook from the DFL. They spent the first half of last year running around the State complaining about the specifics of Governor Pawlenty's proposed budget, and never presenting a budget of their own. They knew how NOT to balance a budget, apparently, but had nothing positive to offer. In the final days of the session they did finally produce a spending plan, with details lacking but overspending considerably [therefore NOT a budget but a wish list], then howled like poo-flinging monkeys when the Governor vetoed their last-minute [literally!] tax increases and used his unallotment authority to get the budget into balance, as they KNEW he would. THEN they then went to court to demand the budget not be balanced at all.
Consequently, the identical problem came back to the legislature this year, and only in the final hours of ANOTHER session, they essentially approved the unallotments Governor Pawlenty made a year earlier! NO SOLUTIONS from the DFL, just two legislative sessions wasted obstructing the necessary and denying the obvious. The DFL legislature, in other words, has been absolutely worthless. There is no point giving them budget details. Let's just elect some adults to the legislature, so these poor dears don’t have to struggle with things they obviously can't understand.
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