[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: If it's legal, it's moral

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
If it's legal, it's moral
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1242525859.shtml


   If it's legal, it's moral. Isn't that one of the tenets of the
   Democratic Party? OK, and of some Republicans, too? If there's no
   controlling legal authority, that's the end of it, right, at least
   from a moral perspective?
   Not this time, regarding the State Budget battle. Prime Minister
   Pawlenty's ploy to take the feather quills out of Pogemiller's and
   Kelliher's hands has them fuming. He's a dictator, he's going it
   alone, he's listening to the wrong people, he's out of touch, widows
   this, orphans that, and he probably cheats at golf. It may be legal,
   but it's sure as heck naughty.
   I can think of any number of DFL shenanigans, like surprise
   re-districting plans and Cheri Yecke. We're probably going to see
   another regarding Steve Sviggum. Even Roger Moe got sandbagged by his
   own party, forcing him to renege on a deal his party had accepted just
   a week earlier. (Education Minnesota was unhappy, I believe.)
   Know what I think of the DFL lecturing us about ethics? Pull my
   finger.