{"id":25,"date":"2006-03-18T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:25:19","slug":"dean-dean-dean-and-we-dont-mean-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Dean Dean Dean and we don&#8217;t mean Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Minnesota GOP has a new Dean to bean. Its Dean Johnson the ex-Republican now Majority leader of the\u00a0Senate DFL caucus. Senator Johnson claimed to have gotten assurances from judges on how they were likely to rule. He did not realize that he was being recorded and is now rightly apologizing profusely. As a Democrat he is now free to apologize for his mistakes unlike, say, President Bush who still hasn&#8217;t been able to admit to any mistakes. Senator Johnson should have realized that\u00a0as a state legislator he had no right to speak for the State Supreme Court. If he had been\u00a0a private religious leader like, say, James Dobson, he could have waved around the thank yous sent him by\u00a0Supreme Court appointees and\u00a0made all sorts of claims about how\u00a0his friends on the Supreme Court would rule. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?page_id=26\">This is the email\u00a0Minn GOP sent me<\/a>. No one has alerted them yet about my party switch. Oh, and check<\/strong> <strong>out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mngop.com\/ma\/\">GOP&#8217;s new website on DOMA<\/a>.<\/strong> (The\u00a0Defense of Marriage Act)<\/p>\n<p>(by the by, I&#8217;m a little embarassed by this post. It is so blatently partisan. Its just the sort of piffle I&#8217;d expect the State DFL chair to spout. Still, its not bad for piffle is it?\u00a0I&#8217;ll\u00a0try to put a\u00a0&#8220;piffle disclaimer&#8221; on similar posts in the future. For me piffle is like the &#8220;gotcha&#8221; smart alecky ripostes\u00a0which have\u00a0little substance but are fun nonetheless.\u00a0An example would be\u00a0FDR&#8217;s teasing Republicans about about <a href=\"http:\/\/bushybarney.tripod.com\/fala.htm\">his scottish terrier Fala<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota GOP has a new Dean to bean. Its Dean Johnson the ex-Republican now Majority leader of the\u00a0Senate DFL caucus. Senator Johnson claimed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21207,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/21207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}