Once again, the Winona Daily News isn't mincing words. Instead, Darrell Ehrlick, writing for the board, dices the Republican majorities in the state legislature, with a few extra jabs and slices reserved for Bluestem all-star Glenn Gruenhagen (R-The Onion).
In Our View: It’s time to ditch the wedge issues, Ehrlick writes:
Voters in Minnesota should demand their votes back.
Just like the false advertising premise of bait-and-switch, voters seem to have been the victims of a bait-and-switch tactic by many state lawmakers.
By and large, Republican candidates campaigned on the promise of fixing the budget and three words — jobs, jobs, jobs.
So far the only things that haven’t been touched by the Republican-controlled Legislature are the budget and job creation.
We’ve been duped.
Instead of worrying about the unemployed and the gaping budget deficit, GOP lawmakers have been busy with a whole bunch of pet projects, including gay marriage, abortion, union bashing and voter identification. . . .
And Glenn Gruenhagen (actually, he's from Sibley County, not the pages of the Onion) provides the gold standard--perhaps what teabaggers fretting about the Federal Reserve would prefer--for stupid pet project tricks, with his statement last week about how abortion perverts men:
Gruenhagen’s logic is imbecilic. To state that someone would reason: Let’s have casual sex because you can always have an abortion is a logic that defies explanation.
We don’t know whether to be more outraged that Gruenhagen would expect citizens to believe that, or that he’d be wasting precious legislative time on such an absurd argument.
Read the whole thing.
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Gruenhagen gone wild, redux: ladies, help men control themselves
Seeing dead people in the Public Safety committee: Gruenhagen berates Alfred Kinsey
Glenn gone wild: Gruenhagen gets public health crisis that leaves Bachmann stammering
FYI: Sibley county has some of the worst bridges in MN. http://t4america.org/resources/bridges/states/?state=mn
Posted by: Hazel Stone | May 19, 2011 at 08:14 AM