All hail, his [what's his title?]

I had been wondering about what we should now call our distinguished governor. I [and a few others] have used Governor Plenty, but that really is just a cheap shot based on a name, not a name which really reveals any particular insight into the person being named.

But his decision announced yesterday unallot and avoid legislative processes, evading normal legislative processes [about the closest thing allowed to a coup d’état allowed under Article IV of the US Constitution] tells us that he should be given a better title.

There is a post on the blog “Liberal in the Land of Conservative” which suggests the title “King Pawlenty.” I understand the thinking, but wonder whether that is the best title. King tends to suggest he obtained his power by inheritance, rather than by seizure. “Tsar” presents similar problems and even His Excellency does not have that level of power. The nature of this assumption of power seems more worthy of a “Generalissimo” but, despite playing commander-in-chief when the National Guard is deployed, he is not military enough. “Shah” seems just too strange to Western tastes. “Fuehrer” seems more appropriate to the way His Excellency, the governor, has assumed his power, but we cannot think of the word without thinking of Hitler and genocide and whatever his flaws.

I think I need to think a bit and welcome anybody’s suggestions.

Meanwhile, Senjum and Marty Seifert [“Sir Punisher”] and other legislative sycophants stood by His Excellency in front of that ornate mantle where governors haven given us their pronouncements on pretty much everything for years.

And I think my suggestion which I have raised several times for one weekly legislative session per month instead of 120 days concentrated in winter and spring has even more merit. [To be fair to CCM readers, I have never posted that here. I had intended to put it in after the legislative session was over and a better post mortem could be done and I probably will. In the meantime, you can dig out your slide rules and calculate 5x12x2.]