Hasta be SunnySide Up...

[lsanderson]

Breakfast of Champions
By CHARLES BAXTER

Minneapolis

THE Senate has been seated, and we have a new senator, Amy Klobuchar. But we’re still talking about the aftermath of the midterm elections.

Two friends from high school, guys I’ve known for 40 years, and I are at breakfast at a greasy spoon on Lyndale Avenue, watching the Minneapolis traffic. I ask for their analysis. My friend the estate planner speaks up first.

“I have it all figured out. Bill Clinton defeated Karl Rove,” he says. “The centrist Democrats, Bill Clinton types, beat out the Karl Rove types, the base voters. The base strategy isn’t going to work for a while. If it had worked, Mark Kennedy would have won the race for the Senate, and we’d have a scowling movement-conservative accountant as Minnesota’s senator. Instead, we have a brainy upbeat soccer-mom progressive. She won in a landslide. She was the antidote to despair. That’s what’s important.” More

Comments

For all the Optimisem

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

We are still left with the questrion:
Michelle Bachmann.
Why?

Re: For all the Optimisem

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Because without Spawn o' Satan, how can you tell they're not from the darkside?

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It's interesting to watch Minnesota politics to get all sorts of national attention.

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