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Last fall, voters in Minnesota’s Second District had a choice for who should represent them in the House for the next two years. Incumbent John Kline was seeking his sixth term and campaigned on the need to amend the US Constitution with a Balanced Budget Amendment while claiming “we are all conservatives” … not Minnesotans, [...]
The Minnesota Family Council apparently hates infertile couples who seek help in starting families. In North Dakota, they’re trying to abolish fertility procedures AND to outlaw some of the most popular forms of contraception. I’m struck by how the right, despite their abuse of the word Freedom, are consistently the ones who try to trample [...]
The Tweets versus Reality January 30, 2012 – The Honorable Chip Cravaack tweeted : The House will vote Wednesday on a bill to freeze the salaries of federal employees, lawmakers and congressional staffers. February 2, 2012 – The Honorable Chip Cravaack tweeted : I voted last night to freeze federal worker and lawmakers’ pay. As [...]
Mike Obermueller had a simple message in his 2012 campaign for the Second Congressional District … “there’s way too much waste” and “both parties are to blame” were the prominent lines from his “Washington Pizza” campaign commercial. His assessment — “I believe both parties are wrong.” His second commercial “Numbers”, which had been FactChecked and [...]
CONGRATULATIONS, John Kline on a personal victory ! The National Journal has issued its rankings of the Most Conservative and Most Liberal Members of the House of Representative … and the only Minnesota in the top tier is John Kline (R-MN-02) with a score of 89.7% coming in tied for 26th spot in the Most [...]
ABC News interviewed the Speaker of the House in which he said : “Now my job on behalf of the American people is to find a way to work with my Democrat colleagues and our Democrat President to solve America’s problems. If there was one mandate that came out of the election, it was find [...]
Quote of the Day : “This is a fantastic country with fantastic resources. Go past the political silos and appreciate that these are precious human lives that politics has affected.” – Dr. Jeffery Auletta, a hematologist and oncologist, on the impact of health care reform. The comment by Richard Mourdock expressing that “life is always [...]
John Kline (R-MN-02) is on record as a sponsor of legislation to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell legislation … and he it sounds like he might have an ally in the US Senate. Let’s ignore the fact that the individual is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and an accomplished pilot, became the second [...]
Aphorism : “The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting different results.” Donna Cassata pens a piece for the Associated Press : Listen up, voters, you’re the boss. Your employee has barely produced the past two years, has hardly showed up for work, hasn’t cooperated with others and [...]
Voters will go to the polls with a choice … Mitt Romney advocates increasing the military by 100,000 (without explaining what their mission would be although he acknowledges that he agrees that American and coalition troops will be out of Afghanistan in 2014) … or Barack Obama who has used Executive Orders to force changes [...]
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