Back When They Knew Their Place
Reader (and writer) Gary Larson points out this little nugget from a tribute to the late Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen, that appeared in the Metro Section of Friday's Star Tribune:
Despite being a prominent and committed Republican, Dirksen believed in civility and compromise, pragmatism rather than ideology. He possessed "the rare but all-important ability to disagree without being disagreeable," as biographer Byron Hulsey put it.
Gary adds:
"Despite?" Let's see now, "Rs" are mean, uncivil, uncompromising slobs? Yeah, that's it! Just like they taught us in J-school. Thanks, staff writer Dick Parker of Strib, for revealing your partisan politics--and in NEWS copy, yet.
More than bias, this is just the latest example of the yearning for the "good old days" of politics in Minnesota. Days when the Republicans kept their heads down, politely and civilly caved on most issues, and "pragmatically" accepted "compromises" that usually consisted of the DFL getting 90% of what they wanted with an occasional bone thrown towards the Republicans as a sop.
Not surprisingly, the DFL wishes to return to these halcyon political days of yore when things were so much more "civil" (meaning they got their way). I guess it should not come as a shock to anyone that Star Tribune reporters feel the same way.
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