What was the Democrat rank & file reaction to the Democrat education proposal? Well….. Light mocking.

If you make a point and catch the weekly postings on Drinking Liberally Sioux Falls, this week you were treated to the Democrat rank and file reaction to the Democrat Party’s reaction to Governor Daugaard’s education proposal.

What was the reaction? I’d characterize it as light mocking, not too dissimilar from what we had noted on it earlier:

In Political News: Our Democratic Legislators in Pierre countered Governor Daugaard’s proposal to increase teacher salaries to an average $48,000 a year with an “Oh yeah! I will call your $48,000 and raise you $2000 more” proposal. To the Democrat’s credit they also tied their proposal to the elimination of the sales tax on food. We will have to see if the South Dakota Education Association (SDEA) backs our Democratic Legislators principled attempt to make our sales tax less regressive or if the teachers push the Democrats to drop their demand for this reform at the first sign of Republican resistance to the Teacher’s well-deserved pay increase. The cynic in me bets that the teachers will take the money without regard to how it is raised and the Democrats will fold like a cardboard box in a thunderstorm when it comes time to vote for the Governor’s proposal.

Read that here.

We docked Democrats points for lacking originality beyond saying “spend more,” and their own rank and file apparently did it too. It’s too bad that there are no original thinkers left over on that side of the aisle, but it’s hard to be original when you’re holding caucus meetings in the 3rd floor phone booths.

I also noticed recently that Drinking Liberally Sioux Falls has removed their advertising from Dakota Free Press. I suspect they discussed the renewal notice earlier in the evenings at one of their meetings, and they just hadn’t had enough to drink to think of it as a good idea. I suppose there are days when you just can’t drink enough….

Otherwise, keep on enjoying what the other side has to say at Drinking Liberally Sioux Falls, and stay tuned for more political stuff!