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They Know; You SHOULD Know

Do They Think We Don’t Notice?

The MN GOP candidates have consistently held anti-women and anti-immigrant positions. When they tell us how much they are ‘on our side’, or ‘reaching out to us’——–do they think we don’t notice their positions?  Is their strategy our ignorance?  Are they so used to the Fox News misinformed and ignorant voter, the ideology fact averse Republican

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MN-02 : TEA Party, Kline Win Student Loan Battle

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

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MN-08 : Cravaack Purported Commonsense Bill Questioned By GOP Congressman

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

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Lies the Right Wing Legislatures Enact

cross posted from Penigma I thought the denial of information in Ignorance Only (what the right prefers to call the more modest sounding abstinence only sex ed) was bad.  I thought the insistence that the Ignorance Only sex ed that FORCED teachers to provide medically, scientifically inaccurate information about topics like contraceptive failure was bad.

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$ BUY- Partisan $,
Bought and Paid for Politicians

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

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Bought and Paid for Politicians

Like the Scarlet Pimpernell….Is he HERE? Is he THERE? We can’t find him anywhere…

This really is a serious topic – DOES Congressman Cravaack effectively, HONESTLY, still live in CD8?   But given how often politics is dull and boring, this seemed a much better way to ask an important question prior to the 2012 elections.

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The Right Wing Wants to Institutionalize Hate
to make it LEGAL to wrongly harm others
even kill them

I will be writing more on the failing of the vetoed Shoot First legislation separately, but I was struck this weekend by the racist overtones of a fatal shooting of a black teen by a white man with a violent past in Florida who had a legal carry permit.  It is an incident that is pertinent,

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to make it LEGAL to wrongly harm others
even kill them

MN-08 : It’s A Bonus To Work For Cravaack

Staff salaries for Raymond Cravaack (R-MN-08) increased substantially from $193,958 in the third quarter to $257,395 in the fourth quarter. This can partially be explained by changes in personnel and personnel assignments (theoretically, employees gaining more responsibility receive more compensation) but the other factor could be a practice used by some Members of Congress to

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MN-08 : Cravaack Dredges Up Excuses to Vote NO

Raymond Cravaack (R-MN-08) earned the nickname “Crash” during his military days (link to the Star-Tribune story), but his taxpayer-paid Congressional website lists the innocent-sounding moniker “Chip” … well after reading his latest press release, his next nickname may be “Baffling” or “Unbelievable” or “Untrustworthy”. Mr. Cravaack explained his vote on H.R. 2055 which covers spending

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Chip Cravaack Lies to His Constituents on the Taxpayer’s Nickel in Telephone Town Halls

This is my maiden post on Minnesota Roundtable, so I hope it is a good one; here goes! On Tuesday, November 15th, Chip Cravaack held an approximately one hour telephone Town Hall. This was not the first of these events in which I have been included as one of Cravaack’s constituents. In every one of

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Is Lying About Duluth Good Politics ?

ADAGE : The LIE becomes the TRUTH when someone comes to believe it. LIE DETECTOR : PoliGraph and other FactCheck organizations. If you feel that you are TaxEnoughAlready, you probably did not like reading Brian Reed’s September 27, 2011 column in INVESTING ANSWERS – Building and Protecting Your Wealth through Education. The title of the

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Job Pays $1,596 Per Day TAKEHOME But Few Takers

The work scheduled has been announced for next year … 109 workdays ! Imagine a “Job” where not only in which you “earn” $174,000 salary but also roughly another $110,000 in taxpayer-funded fringe benefits (including plush retirement plans {some could start receiving benefits at age 50}, paid time off, paid-for trips, paid-for vehicles, paid job-related

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Stink Bugs, Christmas Trees or Pell Grants – What Will GOP Cut ?

When John Kline (R-MN-02) went on his “pork-free” diet, he made “earmarks” a central part of his election campaign strategy … citing projects like — $211,509 for olive fruit fly research in Paris (The Olive Fruit Fly is the world’s most disastrous olive pest and has infested thousands of acres of California’s olive groves.) Mr.

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How Will Romney Pay For Hiring 100,000 Govt Workers, Increased Defense Spending and Foreign Aid ?

PANDERING : To manipulate one’s views in a manner that appeals to low-information voters with the objective of gaining the voter’s support while ignoring the consequences. A little known Dallas-area Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress grabbed the headlines on Friday when he espoused the position of the Southern Baptist Convention that Mormonism is “a cult.”

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