QUERY Which Adage Best Describes John Kline : – If you’re not a part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem. – If you’re not a part of the solution, you are the problem. – Both “As long as uncertainty hangs over our economy, small businesses and entrepreneurs will [...]
PONDER THIS : What would be the reaction if instead of profiling based on “TEA Party”, “Patriot” or “9/12”, the IRS focused on “Inner-City Muslim Action”, “North American Islamic” or “Committee on American-Islamic Relations” ? For those wondering which scandal (military sexual abuse, DOJ reviews of journalists’ telephone records, the Obama administration responded to the [...]
Anyone who reads the FY2012 Annual Report on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Strategy issued by the Department of Defense on May 7th, immediately is alarmed by Figure 4 (page 22) which reported that number of military members who made an anonymous report that they were sexually assaulted, but never relayed the attack to superiors, [...]
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QUERY : Why did Richard Hanna (R-NY-22) vote Against John Kline’s pet legislation ? John Kline (R-MN-02) has made a big deal out of H. R. 1406 Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 … as illustrated in his OpEd, his assessment is simple — working families need flexibility to “caring for each other during difficult [...]
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, [...]
“I’m not running for Senate, and I’m not running for governor,” John Kline (R-MN-02) told a group of reporters on Friday. “I am running for re-election and that’s where my efforts have been.” The occasion was so significant for the Chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee that he tweeted about it. Yep, Chairman Kline [...]
Mike Obermueller announces his candidacy for the 2014 DFL endorsement for the Second District on the program, Access to Democracy. In this broad discussion of issues, ranging from the GOP House’s failure to consider the Farm Bill to Chairman Kline’s failure to reform No Child Left Behind, Mike stresses focusing on the right priorities and [...]
With a simple message, Sona Mehring announces her campaign to unseat John Kline (R-MN-02): When a friend was in a time of crisis, I stepped up with an innovative idea to help her solve a problem. That idea became CaringBridge and has helped millions of families get through challenging times. Well, there is a crisis [...]
The picture in John Kline’s TV advertisement – “Forcing Washington to Be Responsible” – is quite emblematic … John Kline, alone. The lonely warrior, fighting a battle for a Constitutional Amendment. That seems to be what he wants to talk about … never mind that when President Bill Clinton left office, there was a surplus [...]
The conventional political opinion is that five states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Virginia) will determine the Electoral College and who will be President in 2012. That race will dominate the cable networks and Sunday news programs, but the real battle is for who (and which political party) will control Congress … with particular emphasis [...]
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