Neither are most Americans

Loving my new senator.

Governor Pawlenty is just wankerific

Oh yippie. Governor and presidential wannabe Tim “hard times in the land of” Pawlenty wants to exempt Minnesota from reality. Isn’t that just precious, and not surprising since he unallotted thousands of the poorest of the poor from …the state’s health care coverage last summer.

Timmy – how about you stop trying to appeal to the “sensibilities” of South Carolina Republican’ts and start focusing on governing your own state for a while?

“Depending on what the federal government comes out with here, asserting the 10th Amendment may be a viable option,” Pawlenty said, when asked about it by a caller on a Republican Governors Association conference call. “But we don’t know the details. As one of the other callers said, we can’t get the President to outline what he does or doesn’t support in any detail. So we’ll have to see, I would have to say that it’s a possibility.”

Pawlenty made it clear that he and other Republican governors will be more assertive about the 10th Amendment: “I think we can see hopefully see a resurgence in claims and maybe even bring up lawsuits if need be.”

Oh please.

TPM observes:

The same view — properly called nullification, a doctrine dating back to the pre-Civil War days in the South — had previously been expressed by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).

More heartburn from ineffective governance and planning

MinnPost has the goods:

The Minnesota Department of Transportation’s recently released statewide transportation plan on policies and highway investments flags a startlingly large $50 billion gap between dollars available for roads and bridges and the $65 billion required to meet state needs in those areas over the next 20 years.

This deals with transportation infrastructure, but across the board – social services, education, environmental protection… Minnesota is falling apart.  The Republican administration has been hell bent on turning us into a northern Arkansas, and they’re well on track.

I am proud of my junior senator

Not gonna make the cut

So who CAN Obama nominate that would get GOP approval?

Love the Bachmann dig.

HT: Joe My God

The cost of budget cuts

An effective part two.

Caught red handed

You’d think the children in the Minnesota GOP could at least pretend to pay attention during budget meetings?

more about “Caught red handed“, posted with vodpod

This isn’t what Minnesota is about?

The bottom line is we’re still a billion short in revenue.  Governor Pawlenty wants to borrow and cut essential services.  That is not a solution.  We deserve better.

So stoopid it’s painful

When is the sixth district going to wake up?

Goodbye Norm

I’ve mentioned this before, but for the price of your morning cup of coffee, you can contribute to helping Norm Coleman go away, giving Minnesota the full representation in the US Senate it so desperately needs and deserves.

Help Norm Coleman Take a Hint

The company she keeps

From Minnesota’s most embarassing congresswoman, courtesy of Dump Michele Bachmann:

Bachmann doesn’t have time for reporters and constituents, but she has lots of time for an extremist bigot who wishes somebody would assasinate the President.

Goodbye Norm

Help make Norm go away.  Dontate today!

Go Away Norm

They elect her why?

How does this kook get elected?

A great piece on Minnesota’s embarassment, Michele Bachmann.

He should emphasize more the role of third parties in Minnesota, but it’s a well done, thoughtful piece.

Coleman’s days are numbered

Good post at Minn Post examining the legal precedents affecting Coleman’s challenge to the 2008 US Senate election.

Over recent days, Team Coleman has often faced the criticism that he is raising his arguments too late. This is a big one. Judge Kurt Marben (one of the ThreeJudges hearing the contest) specifically asked Team Coleman why the court should not follow the Bell v. Gannaway precedent and rule that challenges to the acceptability of absentee ballots must be made before the ballot gets into the ballot box.

It’s looking good for Franken.