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I can't believe I missed this one last week; Lori Sturdevant asks:

Is DFL Senate majority leader growing more conservative on the job?

That's easy.  No.

But Pogemiller's no idiot.  I mean, he doesn't have to be smart in the classical sense to keep winning a seat in his district, but he's not dumb, either.  He can see which way the wind is blowing.

And in a year when the dominant sentiment is "throw the taxing, spending bums out", having a statement like “I think it’s simplistic and naive to say people can spend their money better than the government" on one's record can't be good electoral mojo.

So it makes perfect sense that someone like Pogy would enlist some willing flaks - that'd be Sturdevant - to try to paper over that long record of "all of your money are belong to us"-type statements, made back when it looked like Obama's shirt-tails were going to stretch all the way into the next century.

But underneath it all?  It's gonna be the same old Pogy.

By the way, I'm going to put that quote on a sign to take to the Tea Party.

Along with Cy Thao's classic "When you win, you get to keep your money, when we win, we take your money".

Wonder if Sturdevant's gonna write a piece about Thao's newfound financial libertarianism?

Cross-posted at Shot In The Dark.