Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota’

Honoring Ronald Reagan

February 6th, 2013 | No Comments

Source: rightwingthinking.info via Robert on Pinterest   On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, let it be known 40 states choose to recognize his birthday.  It’s not a holiday or anything.  It’s just a note that someone very important to this country was born on this date.  Eight states choose to intentionally ignore his birthday.  It’s kind of [...]

That Hopey Changey thing: Eliminating filibusters

January 24th, 2013 | No Comments

Within one day after President Obama was sworn in for his second term, Harry Reid was putting in motion the vote to eliminate most filibusters. Here is the list of the Senators that think this is such a good idea they chose to co-sponsor it: Sen Baldwin, Tammy [WI] – 1/22/2013 Sen Begich, Mark [AK] [...]

Todd Akin and Missouri

August 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

You know the headlines already: Obama mocks Akin, says Akin missed science class And you know how people have reacted. Can Todd Akin win? Public OpinionPoll Results Now, what you probably haven’t thought about is this isn’t Los Angeles or New York that’s doing the voting. It’s Missouri. Missouri’s a little different place than you [...]

President Obama goes after greedy university administrators

October 27th, 2011 | No Comments

Yeah!  Tell me another one!  Whew.  OK.  Let’s get serious.  Obama, as usual, is attacking the concept of personal responsibility.  The concept that people willingly and knowingly incurred a debt is meaningless to Obama.  Completely.  Under his watch, the student loan program has been removed from the private sector and made federal  ( that’s called [...]

Culture of Corruption: voting felons prefer Al

July 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment

It’s now come to light that apparently felons in Minnesota gave us Al Franken. Imagine that. Nancy Pelosi has promised us that she will do everything in her power to diligently uphold the highest ethical standards in Congress that she possibly can and not allow HER Congress to return to the moral and ethical abyss [...]

Minnesota’s Joke

July 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

Minnesota chose Al Franken to represent them in DC. And we all thought electing a “professional” wrestler as governor was a joke. Everyone knows his SNL stint as the unfunniest of the initial SNLers.  But, I bet a lot of people didn’t realize he’s an accomplished author as well.  A couple of his tomes: Rush [...]

Bipartisanship and Medicaid

February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package.  I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way.  As such, I was interested in the numbers.  However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at.  In essence, [...]

Keith Ellison’s Utopia

July 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Representative Keith Ellison submitted this letter to The Hill blogs: We have to consider the 30 years of stagnant wages that your average Americans have had to face. That fact is that the reason we have people refinancing their homes, getting home equity loans, getting high rate interest credit cards and petty loans is because [...]

Larry Craig and the homophobe card

August 28th, 2007 | No Comments

I pretty much figured this would happen a lot sooner than I did find it.  Jeff Fecke at Shakesville ponders: ….if Craig had been arrested for public nudity or having sex in a bathroom stall, I could understand this better. If he’d been arrested for soliciting a prostitute, I’d be all in favor of him [...]

I35 Bridge and the completely expected rhetoric

August 3rd, 2007 | 11 Comments

There has been a lot of finger pointing and flat out lies already flying off tv and the blog world regarding the collapse of the I35 bridge. I have read several articles that blamed everyone from Bush for having troops in Iraq to Republicans not funding infrastructure properly since 1990. ( Best I recall, the [...]