True North

Wonder why the 2010 elections are going to be important for conservatives to mount a real opposition?

Margaret Anderson Kelliher wants to gut the last protection Minnesota taxpayers have under Minnesota law (emphasis added):

I am going to say for the record that I believe you and the governor have taken the unallotment statute far too far. And in fact I believe it is going to be necessary for the Legislature to change the law next year to modernize the unallotment law in accordance with what other states do.

Y’know - all those states that are also way over budget…

No one could have imagined before this point that a governor would veto a balanced-budget bill in order to go it unilaterally and go it alone in balancing this budget.

Sadly, it is all too easy to imagine that a DFLer would call the tax-hiking, pork-laden abomination the DFL rammed through with fifteen minutes to go in the session before anyone had had a chance to read it a “balanced budget bill”.

“And so I think it’s very necessary at this point to put on the record that there will be a bill–there have already been two bills introduced, but I believe there will be a bill that legislators bipartisanly can hopefully support, so that this never happens again, whether the governor’s a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent. This has been a move that I believe is out of step and illegal in many aspects.

Watch for the DFL to keep harping on the unallotment being “illegal”.  It’s an ugly word, and sticks in peoples’ minds easily.  It’s straight out of Alinski.  It’s also a lie.

Kelliher, like every DFLer on the budget issue, is lying.

We will maybe never know if it is not challenged in court.

“If”!

But I do think the Legislature must retain the power of the Legislature has to change the law. And I think it is necessary to say that at this point that it is absolutely imperative that the Legislature curb the power of a chief executive in terms of impinging on the legislative powers of this state.”

On the off-chance that Kelliher has an intellectual point, and that unallotment is excessive power for an executive?  That might intellectually be true…

…provided we ever had a more responsible legislature.

That’s not going to happen with a DFL legislature whose intellectual marching orders come from Cy Thao:  “If you win, you get to keep your money.  If we win, we take your money!”

Wonder if Kelliher will show up at the Tea Party on Saturday?

Cross-posted and comments welcome at Shot In The Dark.