Politicians regularly offer “free” advice of areas of federal spending that they deem wasteful, but let’s be honest “Talk” is cheap … yet, it is the “cost” to print that makes “talk” expensive. Listen to the advice and concerns expressed by Rob Woodall (R-GA-07) on the sequester that the cuts didn’t go down the way [...]
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 [...]
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Reading the Jim Ramstad and Al Franken OpEd Improving Care for Mental Illness illustrates that party politics should not prohibit addressing healthcare. The OpEd points to specific legislation — for example, in the House H.R.401 – the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act of 2013 has strong support (across political parties as well as geographically [...]
Gauging by the lawn signs, the Definition of Marriage Amendment question has made that old adage of never discussing politics and religion in polite conversation, a principle of a gonebydays. The Amendment question was authorized in a very close vote with four Republicans voting against it … including John Kriesel whose floor speech is now [...]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, defined the strategy for the Farm Bill would be not to pass the five-year legislation that was approved in a bi-partisan basis in the House Agriculture Committee and to have the Congress to agree on a short-term extension … and to “Wait for the [...]
Iowa prides itself in being the first state to weigh in on nominating candidates for President. The 2012 Republican caucuses thought they had picked the next president when it announced that Mitt Romney had won only to have to retract it later in favor of Rick Santorum. Well … it was close … so surely [...]
We’re talking here about the U.S. population, not Alaska versus contiguous states; I made the play on words in the title because some of the people I’ve talked with recently who hadn’t followed R-money’s latest mega-gaffe didn’t get the reference, mistaking it for the common reference to the location of states as in the ‘lower [...]
Have you seen the television commercial alerting voters in Minnesota Eight District of Raymond Cravaack’s votes on education issues ? Voiceover: In Minnesota, we have a tradition of valuing education. That’s why Chip Cravaack’s priorities are so wrong. Cravaack voted to cut Pell Grants for 23,000 Minnesota college students. He voted to cut overall education [...]
cross posted from Penigma Republican candidates too willingly fall in line with party politics and party economic policies, instead of having the moral character and political will to stand up with critical objections to these policies. We have Republican candidates calling Obama “the food stamp president”, as if the use of food stamps derives from his policies, [...]
cross posted from Penigma Watch for our Minnesota Republicans to fall into the line of surrogate goats in support of Romney and Ryan, to manipulate the conservative sheep, especially pandering to the more ignorant Islamophobes. As we learn more about the intentional and unintentional distribution of the hate movie made by the far right wing extremist Christian felon and friends, [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
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