Bluestem loves a sassy metaphor, and Grand Forks Herald's Tom Dennis delivers with this extended analogy in the opening paragraphs of OUR OPINION: In Minnesota, Gov. Dayton's in the driver's seat:
The trouble with playing chicken is that every now and then, your car really does fly off the cliff.
That's not quite the situation Minnesota Republicans are in. Their "car" isn't sailing out over the void.
But it is teetering on the cliff's lip. And the drop to the next ledge is long.
Meanwhile, the guy with the tow-truck and the rescue rope—Gov. Mark Dayton—is parked nearby. He's whistling as he sits in the driver's seat, clearly in no hurry to pull the Republicans back onto solid ground.
Now, if you were the GOP, and you found yourself on the brink and in that situation, what would you do?
Read the editor's suggestions at the Grand Forks Herald.
The paper's latest editorial follows its earlier commentary, How Minnesota can end last-minute lawmaking, as well as editorials and staff commentary from the Morris Sun Tribune (see our post Morris editor calls out Speaker when Daudt asks Minnesota to ignore ugly process of session) and the Crookston Times that opined Speaker Kurt Daudt's like "a college kid partying like rock star all night long" (while still hoping for a make-up test in that 8 a.m. class he asked the prof to cancel).
Image: Maybe this sign should be posted in the office of Minnesota House Republican Executive Director Ben Golnik. With Golnik in the driver's seat, we don't think posting it in current Speaker and former used car salesman Kurt Daudt would be particularly efficacious.
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