Category: MN Congressional
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One Day At DFL HQ
SCENE: At the state DFL headquarters in Saint Paul. Richard CARLBOM, new chair of the DFL, is sitting at a conference table with Edmund DUCHEY, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK and Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, all members of Amy KLOBUCHAR’s staff. CARLBOM: So, we’ve got a real problem with white males in rural Minnesota. That could be a big…
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Opportunity Runs Into The Door Like A Battering Ram At The Front Of An MRAP
The Piglet isn’t running for Senate: That leaves the field with: Lt. Governor Flanagan, the one-time extremist who has drifted toward the center-left, at least as compared to Ilhan Omar and Leigh Finke. Al Franken is also riumored to be thinking about wanting to go back to DC. Angie Crag, who just keeps barely portraying…
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Game Of Crones
Tina Smith is retiring from the Senate, citing health. So – who’s turn is it in DC? Tim Walz has made noises about running – and clearly lusts after DC real estate. More on that maybe next week. Peggy Flanagan came right out of the gate, though, and announced yesterday. No huge surprise there. Of…
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You Heard It On The NARN First…
When I saw Angie Craig jamming Mary Moriarty into the wood chipper last week… …. I figured there was a reason. And MPR apparently thinks so as well: Most congressional districts in the nation and in Minnesota are considered either firmly Republican or Democratic. That’s not the case in the 2nd District, which comprises much…
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Now Be Thankful
Amy Klobuchar should be thankful to the feminist goddess that Tina Smith is in Congress. Because as long as she is, A-Klo is not the dumbest Senator in our delegation. Shot: Chaser: To be fair, Smith says it because she knows Democrat voters don’t do critical thought.
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Place Yer Bets
It’s finally Election Day and we can all breathe easier now that we won’t have to see Angie Craig’s alternating rictus grin/contorted face of rage multiple times a day on television, social media and other media. But will we see Craig going forward? While I sincerely hope not, it’s difficult to know. So let’s hazard…
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Diligence!!!
They’ve been in office a combined total of thousands of years. Two months before the midterm elections, the three of them erupt in a spurt of tweeting about needing to reform congressional stock trading laws. Gosh, I wonder why? The good news for the three of them? This is the last that will be heard…
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Polled
I’m going to guess some internal poles give representatives Angie Craig and Dean Phillips a bit of a wake up call. 2022: representatives Craig and Phillips have a bit of a change of heart, just in time for midterms: I’m going to guess that all those soccer moms in Lakeville and Wayzata aren’t amused at…
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Ray Of Hopelessness
I wouldn’t say there was much in the way of “surprises“ in the primaries last night. Mostly confirmation of existing hunches, and a brief stab of hope followed by waves and waves of confirmation that Minneapolis is not only screwed, but seems hell-bent on participating in its own screwing. The marquee race, Don Samuels tackling…
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Open Letter to Rep. Phillips
To: The Hon. Rep. Dean Phillips (MN-03)From: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Burning Daylilght, Bucko Rep. Phillips. You recently tweeted this: Well that’s great. But I’ve got some questions. For starters: you’ve had two years with control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress. Why, 2.5 years into this period of complete control, are you…
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Open Letter To Rep. Craig
To: Rep. Angie CraigFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Your Superpowers Rep. Craig, The other day, you tweeted this: Please tell us what ability you, a Congressional Rep and member of the Legislative Branch, have to influence the price of commodities, like gasoline? Also – you’re aware that gas prices are falling because the market is…
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The Battle/s For The GOP
Every election, and GOP primary, is a “referendum on Donald Trump”. Just ask the Democrats and media (ptr), who want and need every election to be a referendum on Orange Literal Hitler. Of course, as a conservative who wants to see DeSantis mop the floor with whomever the order of succession puts up against him…
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Game Day
In addition to a number of primaries that may or may not be referenda on Donald Trump, depending on who you ask (more tomorrow, hopefully), today is the first of four drama-clogged elections in Minnesota’s First Congressional District. As the Strib notes, there are twenty candidates in the running. The DFL (8 candidates) and GOP…
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Coming Not To Bury, But To (Strange As It May Seem) Praise
This blog hasn’t shown a lot of love for Ilhan Omar. There are a lot of good reasons for that. But as Greenwald points out, there’s more than one dimension to keep in mind: The first point in particular – I was unaware of it, but am happy to see she stood on a principle…
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Public Notice
This past Saturday, I had a Minnesota Fifth congressional district republican congressional candidate Cicely “Cee Cee“ Davis on the show. Ilhan Omar is entitled to equal time. If you’re one of Rep. Omar’s people, have her call my people. she is entitled to equal time. I hope she claims it.
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Does Anyone But Me…
…get the impression that the members of the power-clique known as “the Squad” – AOC, Ayanna Presley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar – got the way they are because they were the “Mean Girls” in Junior High, and either never grew out of it or recovered that inner character flaw when they got into power?…
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Profiles In Courage
To: Senator KlobucharFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Whoah, There… Senator Klobuchar, Thanks for taking a clear, principled stance on controversial issues like… (checks notes) …repealing Daylight Savings Time. It’s a time for leaders to lead. But don’t fly too close to the sun. That is all.
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The Thing About Virtue-Signaling…
…is that as the things considered “Virtues” change, so do the signals.
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As Professor Reynolds Says…
…don’t get cocky. But a Democrat who’s in power and isn’t overreaching like a crack whore with a stolen Obsidian Card probably isn’t much of a Democrat. And it just may cost them.
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Contest
A friend of the blog writes: I say we name a snow plow “Amy Klobuchar”. She’s not getting named to anything else. Not making it to post(electoral) season. How very Minnesotan.
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Expect 30 Minutes Of Tina Smith Ads Per Hour For The Next 12 Days
Usual disclaimers about “the only poll that counts is on November 3 [1] inserted here. But pessimist that I am, I really didn’t see this coming KSTP/SURVEYUSA: Tina Smith 43%; Jason Lewis 42%; 12% undecided; 3% people other. Confidence Interval +/- 5%. Smith had 11-point lead in September and 7-point lead earlier this month. pic.twitter.com/mX91q0MI6X…
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Serious Question
We’re told as of yesterday that Senator Klobuchar’s husband is in the hospital with National Healthcare VIrus. In the statement, Klobuchar said [husband John] Bessler had a fever and was coughing up blood. He was checked into a hospital in Virginia and is receiving oxygen but is not on a ventilator. “I love my husband…
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Twin Cities Media, Then And Now
Twin Cities Media and Left (ptr), 2015: “Black Lives Matter were heroes for shutting down I94 during rush hour! Speak truth to power! Up next – Amanda Shapely at the Boat Show” Twin Cities Media and the Left (ptr) 2020: “Black Lives Matter are a bunch of hooligans! Why weren’t the police able to keep…
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A-Klo Belches, Calls It “Chanel Number 5”
Senator Klobuchar, fresh off having a third-place finish in a decreasingly important primary hailed like the victory march in Paris by a local who has acted like her personal PR firm ever since they were all getting pass-out drunk with her father, has this to say about gun control: During the first 2020 Democratic…