Wednesday, September 05, 2007

The way Andy could be right 

Too busy for much posting, but here's the way in which Andy's notion* (with assistance from Margaret) that the DFL is carrying the upper hand can be right and I would be wrong about this.
  1. The DFL has to pretend not to control its membership...
  2. ...while convincing a broad majority of them to vote on a bill likely to be vetoed...
  3. ...convincing their constituencies that this was the best way to get them their goodies to keep them energized for 2008...
  4. ...getting the press to cover this as leadership denied by Governor Pawlenty, and...
  5. ...convincing voters next year that they were "getting things done".
Believing any one of those statements is fine. Hitting the super perfecta there? I don't know. Seems like a lot of things have to happen right, and Andy's concerns the sort of worries Charlie Brown has as he approaches the football. If Maggie and Pogie sign the agreement and then renege or "let the savages run wild" and we cannot show this for the treachery it would be, we do not deserve to run for cemetery management boards, let alone the state legislature.

You could be right. My money is going on the other side, though, unless you give me good odds.

* -- I am officially declaring that the term p3wned is banned from the blogosphere. Violators will be prosecuted.

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