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Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
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April 30, 2012 posting to the CravaackForCongress, entitled While Gas Prices Soar, Minnesotans Feel the Squeeze sets a populist tone … a strong-willed Congressman fighting against the Power of the President (highlights below): Under President Obama’s watch, the price of gasoline has shot up 95 percent. Washington politicians continue to put up artificial obstacles, and Follow this link to read more of: MN-08 : While Gas Prices Soar, Cravaack Leads (or Misleads?) To win the 1928 Presidential campaign, Hubert Hoover claimed that the everyone will be prosperous under a Hoover presidency with this slogan : A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage Well … in 2012, to let everyone know how prosperous they will be under a Romney presidency then this slogan is Follow this link to read more of: Romney-Yost 2012 : Everyone Deserves a Big Mac for Lunch The Wall Street Journal headline says it all : Private Jobs Turn Positive for Obama Presidency Private-sector Jobs With the latest report, total private payrolls are now higher than they were in January 2009. The latest count put private-sector jobs at about 111 million in April (reported as 111.02 million), or 35,000 jobs more than Follow this link to read more of: MN-02 : Kline Responds to Jobs Report By Promoting Cuts to Woman’s Jobs Program Expanding on Holly Cairns piece on the Senate’s rejection of Republican efforts to changing proposed NLRB procedures, it is appropriate to note the efforts in the House. John Kline (R-MN-02) as Chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee was presented with a companion resolution that matched the Senate’s — HJ Res 103. Chairman Kline was Follow this link to read more of: MN-02 : Businessman Questions Kline’s Claims – Ambush Elections Wreck Havoc Todd Akin (R-MO-02), a candidate for Senate said during a debate last weekend that government involvement in student loans has given the government a “stage three cancer of socialism”: AKIN: America has got the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has Follow this link to read more of: MN-02 : TEA Party, Kline Win Student Loan Battle Last week, the Republican-managed House successfully passed HR 9 The Small Business Tax Cut … the cost $45.95Billion … for one year … with a projected 39,000 jobs created … with no offsets – so the National Debt will rise. The Republicans plan to find offsets later. This week, the Republican-managed House is focused on Follow this link to read more of: MN-02 : After Passing Unpaid Business Tax Cut, Will Kline Increase Student Interest Rates Pay For It ? On Thursday, Raymond Cravaack (R-MN-08) spoke passionately on the House floor in support of H.R. 9, the Small Business Tax Cuts Act … specifically mentioning the complexity of the tax code and the tax burden on small business. Here are the highlights : American small businesses now spend between 1.7 billion and 1.8 billion hours Follow this link to read more of: MN-08 : Cravaack Purported Commonsense Bill Questioned By GOP Congressman Mitt Romney’s path to the Republican nomination has taken some unusual turns … oh, sure, there was the big economic speech in Detroit’s Ford Field which was shoeboxed into one corner (this was the speech in which he related to the audience about his wife’s two Cadillacs – not to be confused with his speech Follow this link to read more of: Romney, the Gypsum Industry and Plant Closings Erik Paulsen (R-MN-03) is campaigning hard in the 2012 New Media Challenge by taking to Twitter to encourage people to Like him. (Background : The New Media Challenge uses taxpayer-paid House.gov website and other taxpayer-paid services to “push the House GOP to be more innovative in its online communications. A spirited competition goes a long Follow this link to read more of: MN-03 : Paulsen Tweets Complaints, Then Pushes Bill That Compounds the Complaints Brett Neely at MPR has an interesting story about a tax cut that John Kline (R-MN-02) is pushing … Republicans prefer to use are “growth” and “opportunity” — particularly for small business. Which is why House Republicans, including 2nd District Rep. John Kline, have unveiled a one-year tax cut for companies that employ fewer than Follow this link to read more of: MN-02 : What Will Kline’s Tax Cut for the Super Bowl Champs Cost ? QUERY : Does a newspaper have the responsibility to provide reasonable Fact Checking when publishing a politician’s submittal on its Editorial page ? Recently, a number of newspapers moved cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s Doonsbury series on proposed legislating mandates requiring intrusive vaginal examination from the Comics section to the Editorial section … well, after reading Michelle Follow this link to read more of: MN-06 : Strib Lets Bachmann Cherry Pick I grew up around the investment banking world. I am well aware of how dirty, and how ruthless it can be, and that there are also some very intelligent and honest, moral people in the business as well. There is an intense and inherent conflict between the two, one I have seen play out many Follow this link to read more of: $ BUY- Partisan $, A high school senior who was worried about how he and his family would pay for college, asked Mitt Romney at a town hall meeting in Youngstown Ohio what the candidate would do about rising college costs if elected. What a softball question … after all, Mitt was once a high school student, himself, as Follow this link to read more of: The Kline Romney Education Plan – The U is You It was a few days before the Christmas of 2008. I was standing in the checkout line at a Wal-Mart, waiting to purchase the Tonka trucks and Buzz Lightyear action figures I had selected for my grandsons. As I looked around the store, I had to chuckle to myself. Somehow, that Wal-Mart reminded me of Follow this link to read more of: Romney Offers NO APOLOGY for New Ulm Workers |
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