Go to Sioux Falls, get on the radio! Patrick Lalley allowed me into his hallowed KSOO studio again yesterday to talk live, live, live about the arguably equally rough trips of Marty Jackley to Washington and Kevin Woster to the Pennington County Lincoln Day dinner. Our segment begins at 34:00:
Our discussion of our Republican neighbors’ unneighborly approach to journalists arose from Woster’s early Tuesday blog post on SDPB. Our discussion of our Attorney General’s argument for online sales tax sprang from my first read of the transcript of Jackley’s Tuesday morning appearance before the highest court in the land. That conversation evolved into my more detailed analysis, published this morning, of the Supreme Court’s balky response to Jackley and South Dakota v. Wayfair.
Lalley seems to like our conversations, so keep tuning in to KSOO AM 1000 Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and I’ll keep coming up with interesting political topics to discuss on air!
I read Woster’s blog post and must say the behavior of the crowd at the Lincoln dinner was appalling. They should probably call it the Paranoid Party. What a hateful, angry, controlling, frightened bunch.
On the other hand, it’s good news to hear that there are sane snacilbupeR who avoided the proceedings. Maybe there is some hope for a sane SDGOP to rise from the ashes of the Mickelson, et. al. debacle.
Here is a thing I’d never heard of before involving an AG. Missouri’s embattled wingnut guv asked a judge for a restraining order against Missouri AG so the AG cannot investigate the governor.
Apparently some states AGs protect their governors from harm while others do not.
(A restraining order to prevent an AG from doing his job? Incredible… and perhaps impeachable.)
Debbo, I can understand why the Pennington County Republicans might feel paranoid. The more people find out what they are up to, the more bad press they get, and the more support they lose. Deep down, they recognize how indefensible their Trumpist racism and bigotry are. They recognize how honest reporting will always show them and their Dear Leader to be doing wrong. They thus face this hard choice: admit they are wrong and stop doing wrong, or get all the objective observers to stop talking about the wrong they are doing and get everyone else to stop believing the objective observers.
I would think that to stop living a lie would be easier than trying to get the rest of the world to believe a lie. But then I’m an honest person, and a rationalist, and a Democrat.
See Cory? That’s your problem right there:
“But then I’m an honest person, and a rationalist, and a Democrat.”