After nearly a decade of demanding that the rest of America never ever call them unpatriotic, Gallup and Pew pollsboth show that, in fact, Democrats are:
Gallup found 58% of GOPer’s calling themselves “extremely patriotic,” as opposed to only 20% of Democrats so identifying. The numbers were a bit closer in the Pew poll, where 69% of Republicans called themselves “extremely proud” to be an American, and 43% of Democrats answered the same.
On one level, the general results should not be surprising. After all, the Right more likely to view America in terms of preserving the core principles that make it great, while the Left is more likely to be fixated on its foibles and failures (both real and imagined).
It’s yet another change Obama has brought us:
But what explains the increase in patriotism on the Right, particularly from 2006 to the present, when Democrats and progressivism has been on the rise? My hypothesis would be that the current version of the Democratic party, and the Obama administration in particular, has transformed big government into a cultural issue.
Every few years, we, as Americans, get to sit back and literally watch history being made in front of our very eyes. We get to see our country’s future being written. We get to- Oh my God! Is Al Franken falling asleep? He totally is!
During Elena Kagan’s opening remarks today, Sen. Franken had a bit of a hard time keeping his eyes open. In his defense, I’m sure many people who watch the confirmation hearings felt the same way. Seriously, do these people know how to blather, or what? Still though, you’d think Franken, as a graduate of live television, would know better than to nod off with so many cameras around.
Tom Horner and Matt Entenza answered questions specific to the legal world. They agreed on concerns about the politicizing of judicial elections. But they disagreed on taxes, with the former Republican-turned-Independent Horner being more open to increased sales taxes than DFLer Entenza.
When asked about extending the sales tax to legal services Entenza said “I’m not going to take a pledge, but I don’t think expanding the sales tax is the direction we want to go.” Horner on the other hand cited a nearly $6 billion shortfall saying “we’re going to need new revenue, I do think we need to increase the sales tax.” The IP-endorsed candidate added that some business taxes should be reduced as well as possibly lowering and broadening the sales tax.
…”Horner is a republican; Horner is a republican; Horner is a republican; Horner is a republican; Horner is a republican…”
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Does anything about this “story” sound familiar to you?
Tom Emmer recently came under fire for his ties to the organization You Can Run But You Can’t Hide International, and its leader Bradlee Dean who has equated homosexuals with pedophiles and encouraged his followers to stand up and “enforce God’s laws” on their own.
Why yes – if you read Shot In The Dark for the truth about current events, you have.
When asked to address his relationship with Dean and his organization, Emmer simply said “these are good people.”
Now, if you are smart you know everything that the DFL say about Tom Emmer is a filthy, rotting lie, and if it’s in the Minnesoros “Independent” or any other leftyblog you need to distrust but verify.
An almost-two-year-old “donation” of $250, in the form of buying seats at a You Can Run benefit dinner in November of 2008. This, by the way, was long before YCR was on the regional media radar – although Birkey continues to refer to this “donation” with context and time frame carefully buried.
Tom Emmer stopping by and getting photographed at the YCR booth at the Minnesota State GOP Convention (as he had stopped by every single gathering of conservatives anywhere in Minnnesota for the past year).
An appearance on “Sons Of Liberty”. By that token, RT Rybak, a former NARN guest, must be a conservative sympathizer.
Tom Emmer calling Bradlee Dean and his associates “nice people“. It’s perhaps an inconvenient truth to Andy Birkey that Bradlee Dean and Jake MacMillan are nice people. They may have different beliefs than Andy Birkey and, also, me. And perhaps it’s easier to believe people who disagree with you are foul people with horns growing out their heads. But Dean and MacMillan and their wives and associates are a genial bunch.
And that’s it. That, according to Birkey, is the extent of Tom Emmer’s “link” to YCR.
There is no involvement. To say otherwise is a lie.
But this is the DFL we’re talking about:
“Is Tom Emmer kidding? Good people indeed,” said DFL spokesperson Donald McFarland. “Tom Emmer stood up for a man who called members of the GLBT community predators, who has encouraged violence against homosexuals and would like to impose his narrow-minded beliefs on the whole of America.
OK, Donald McFarland, here’s your choice:
Show is where Emmer “stood up for”Bradlee Dean”, or
Last week, in his video tongue-kiss to Obama before his (disastrous) “We Have Nothing To Fear But Oil Itself” speech, Fast Eddie Schultz wrote:
“Mr. PresIdent, I want to see the boot on the neck of BP tonight… it’s OK tonight to act kind of like a dictator and call the shots saying this is the way it’s going to be.”
Granted, Schultz is one of very few talk show hosts who actually is as stupid as conservative talk radio is supposed to be.
Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund to be provided by BP to compensate people harmed by their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
In other words, the Republicans who “apologized” to BP – over the perversion of US law, as opposed to over accountability – were right? Hmm.
Many among the public and in the media may think that the issue is simply whether BP’s oil spill has damaged many people, who ought to be compensated.
But our government is supposed to be “a government of laws and not of men.”
If our laws and our institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion — or $50 billion or $100 billion — then so be it.
But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without “due process of law.”
Technically, it has not been confiscated by Barack Obama, but that is a distinction without a difference.
Because the problem is the next victim of government overreach won’t be a big bad capitalist like a BP.
With vastly expanded powers of government available at the discretion of politicians and bureaucrats, private individuals and organizations can be forced into accepting the imposition of powers that were never granted to the government by the Constitution.
If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you don’t believe in constitutional government.
“We are all in this together. The enemy is the oil,” said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Dan Lauer.
But the Coast Guard ordered the stoppage because of reasons that Jindal found frustrating. The Coast Guard needed to confirm that there were fire extinguishers and life vests onboard, and then it had trouble contacting the people who built the barges.
Er, if the Coast Guard shares the same mission as Louisiana does, why couldn’t they have lent them the damn life jackets? I’m told they own a few.
In addition to the story, I want you to listen to two things in the following video:
1. Bobby Jindal – who is kicking as much butt as federal regulations will allow him to in this crisis, and who would seem to have redeemed himself from his flop of a speech last year, and I think it’s fair to say will be going back on the short list for GOP Presidential hopefuls shortly here. He’s doing a great job with this catastrophe in a way that his buck-passing predecessor did not with Katrina. Side note: Hearing a man of Indian descent talking in a fluent Louisiana accent is a kick for this language geek.
2. Do you hear that other sound? That wobbly sound in the background? That’s the sound of the wheels coming off Barack Obama’s presidency.
The chirping of the bird outside your window sounds like a scrap-metal shredder. Your eyes wrench themselves open into the searing early-morning sun blazing through your window.
Your body does a silent status check. Head: a searing toxic void. Esophagus: Making room for expansion. Stomach: Calling out “Outoing!”.
You shamble to your feet, and lurch for your door as you dimly remember yelling “Yes, we CAN…play quarters with Windsor!”. You half-stagger down the hall, bouncing off the wall twice, as you race the impending stream of toxic heat racing up from the stomach to the bathroom.
You slap the door aside with your forehead and fall to your hands and knees in front of the throne, barely in time for the high-pressure jet of toxic spew blast forth from your mouth, nostrils and, near as you can tell, ears. As your stomach spasms and your mouth curdles from the acid and your brain tries to hammer its way out the back of your head, you dimly remember telling a sternly disapproving-looking Macalester Womyn’s Stydies major “I hope you change your mind” and trying to remember what “extended middle finger” meant before everything went all cloudy. You will your eyes to stay closed even as they roll open to see a roiling toilet bowl full of things you remember the nuns warning you about.
You crawl downstairs and lay on the couch, and lie in the fetal position as the air conditioner roars like a Stuka on its attack run, a stack of bills staring at you accusingly, mocking you for the fun you had the night before.
…exactly what all of us were telling the nation two years ago; that legislators’ experience is lousy preparation for the Presidency:
American voters have taken many zigs and zags over the years when choosing their country’s chief executive.
But one of the amazing consistencies is: They prefer chief executives in the executive office. Five of the last six presidents have been executives — four governors and one sitting vice president.
The only exception is the current incumbent, Barack Obama, who as his bipartisan critics tried to point out in 2007-08, had never even run a candy store, let alone a country.
Huh. Do tell, L. A. freaking Times? Do you finally think so?
He was a law lecturer
…which was put out there as a key qualification. “Constitutional Law is great background for a president!”, they say. To which I, and a growing plurality of the American people, respond the President doesn’t need to litigate the constitution; he just needs to follow it. The President needs to know the Constitution exactly as well as a fairly competent policeman to do his job.
a state senator and, briefly, a U.S. senator.
And it looks like the American people are finally starting to catch up with the GOP:
Overall, a new Rasmussen Reports poll indicated Wednesday, only 42% of Americans currently approve of Obama’s job, while 57% disapprove. Or compare Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s 66% state approval for his hands-on spill work vs 60% disapproval for the presidential visits, all four of them now.
Jindal is a great comparison of the difference between a real executive – someone on whose desk the buck stops, someone who makes decisions and gets things done – and a fake one like Obama, who is seemingly more into
Fact is, the two main political parties didn’t give American voters a….
… choice in 2008, nominating legislators for three of the tickets’ four spots — Obama, Joe Biden and John McCain. The fourth — gee, her name escapes us right now — was an elected top state executive, who seemed to gather more public attention than any of the others.
DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza Thursday will release a “a bold education plan,” his campaign said Wednesday.
He’ll talk about the plan on campaign stops in Duluth, St. Paul and Rochester.
Entenza, who is vying in a DFL primary, took a hit at Republican candidate Tom Emmer in making his Wednesday announcement.
“During his tour Entenza will highlight a basic premise: to make Minnesota great again, we need to make our schools great again. It is a concept that Tom Emmer has failed to grasp,” the campaign release said.
Of course, you won’t see Mark Dayton or Margaret Anderson-Kelliher releasing “plans”. Entenza, trailing very badly in the race, has nothing to lose.
Except that when he says it’s going to be a “bold” plan, set your expectations accordingly. Entenza was the founder of MN2020, a think tank that has, among other things, been effusive in supporting the Teachers Unions, and in reinforcing our wretched status quo at the expense of any new, better ideas.
So I believe it’s a safe bet that Matt Entenza’s education plan will be “bold” only in the brazenness of its support for the status quo and demands that we peasants fall in line.
n a somewhat surprising move, the AFL-CIO opted NOT to endorse a gubernatorial candidate “at this time.’
In recent days, the DFL-endorsed candidate, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, has been picking up the endorsements of individual unions at an impressive rate. But this afternoon, a big one — the AFL-CIO endorsement — got away.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess they’ll come up with one right about August 11.
A name popped into my head today: Bob Woodward. I wonder if he’s still working. If he’s working, I wonder what he’s working on. I wonder if he’s working on … President Barack Obama, much as he did President George W. Bush, multiple times. Woodward’s “Bush at War” was published in November of 2002, recounting the first few months after the 9/11 attack. So, will there be a Woodward book this fall of 2010 on some aspect of the historic Presidency of Barack Obama?
It’s not like there’s not material:
The problem is, of course, where to start. The Stimulus that didn’t. National socialist health care? The Gulf oil spill? His mess of a foreign policy? The bailouts? Where to start? Maybe it won’t be Woodward, but I have to believe some Obama perspectives will be appearing in time for Christmas.
“This will not be so much an anti-tax-and-spend election as an anti-incumbent election!”
It’s one of the things that Dems tell themselves to comfort themselves as they face what looks to be a fairly ugly year for them.
And they’re right. The latest Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll shows that it is going to be an anti-incumbent year.
Anti Democratic incumbents, anyway; the Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll shows 37% of respondants in Republican-controlled districts want to flush their incumbents. It’s 49% in Dem-controlled districts.
Yeah, I know. It’s just a poll taken six five months before the election. And it’s only the Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll. Still, I don’t think anyone would have expected this two years ago.
CORRECTION: I mistakenly referred to the “NPR Poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research” as the “Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll”. I regret the misunderstanding.
The BBC reports of Barack Obama’s speech last night are about as derisive as it would be possible to be about someone you were describing only a few months ago as the incarnation of Hope and Optimism. Yes indeed, the romance is over. The British media have decided that it was all a cruel deception: Obama is just one more ranting populist president who will do anything to divert attention from his own failure to get a grip. And this is not just about BP and the fate of all those pension funds.
And his polls in Muslim countries are collapsing, too.
Tom Emmer has taken some heat – unjustified as usual – for a (out of context) remark in the Marshall newspaper last year:
“I don’t think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat,” Emmer said. “I don’t think that’s a grassroots Democrat who says now ‘That’s not what I voted for, this isn’t the America I want.’ It’s the leaders of the Democrat party.”
Some Democrats have gotten exercised over the quote, lately – out-of-context, naturally. Of course freedom-loving people can be Democrats…
Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered to work in close concert with high level Soviet officials to sabotage President Ronald Reagan’s re-election efforts and to arrange for congenial American press coverage of General Secretary Yuri Andropov, according to a 1983 KGB document.
That’s Ted Kennedy.
The patron saint of the mainstream Left in America.
Actively working with the KGB against then-President Ronald Reagan.
That’s the KGB; they of the Lubyanka and the Black Marias and the Gulag and show trials and sixty million dead Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Germans. The KGB of the Holodomor, the government-imposed starvation of Ukraine.
One more time from the heart: Ted Kennedy worked with the K G freaking B against a sitting President.
Specifically, Kennedy offered to have “representatives of the largest television companies in the U.S. contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview.” The idea here would be for the Soviet leader to make an end run around Reagan and make a direct appeal to the American people.
Kennedy suggested that Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters and Elton Raul, the president of the board of directors for ABC, be considered for the interviews with Andropov in Moscow.
That’s Yuri Andropov – former KGB head, one of the architects of the “Prague Spring”, a man with rivers of human blood on his nicotine-stained hands – for whom Ted “Camelot!” Kennedy, leader of the “Mainstream” American left, was serving as a Public Relations flak.
Question for all of you liberal hamsters who were calling Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party “seditious” for fomenting suspicion of government, and who huffed “Don’t you dare question the left’s patriotism” between 2001 and 2008; where is the revulsion?
I’m sure it’ll happen as soon as the mainstream media covers Kennedy’s treachery:
The confidential correspondence between Sen. Kennedy and Soviet agents first came to light in a Feb. 2, 1992 report published in the London Times entitled “Teddy, the KGB and the Top Secret File.
To sum up: A mainstream liberal leader goes behind the back of the sitting President to double-deal with not just any foreign power, but the most murderous group of butchers in human history, because he saw them as the reasonable party.
Of course it was a rare, one-off aberration, right?
I’d like to invite you to come on the Northern Alliance Radio Network for a couple of segments one of these Saturdays. Ed and I are respectful but acerbic interviewers; we’ve interviewed RT Rybak, Dane Smith, Rochelle Olson and Erik Black, and overall I’ll put the quality of our “across the aisle” interviews up against anything on the radio in Minnesota, public or private.
Since across-the-aisle conversation obviously concerns you as much as it does us, I hope you’ll avail yourself of the opportunity to address the conservative audience.
The idea of Democratic Party unity – in Minnesota and nationwide – has passed beyond “charade” and “myth” into outright fraud.
No, I”m not talking about the primary battle; while the Dems’ three-way battle for the Gubernatorial nod is a sign of a deep split in the party, it is simply how things are done under our current caucus/convention/primary system.
No – even after the primaries are done and Mark Dayton once again proves that the DFL endorsement is in fact the kiss of death, and the party supposedly “unites” behind the former Senator, all that “unity” talk will be a complete fraud. The DFL – indeed, Democrats nationwide – will be misleading the people by saying they are united.
Why?
Because I”m not one of them. Not anymore.
I was a Democrat, and at least on economic policy a fairly liberal one, until I was in my early twenties. I am a former Liberal Democrat.
And even though the only Democrats I’ve voted for in the past 25 years were Randy Kelly and Norm Coleman, and I”ve been a conservative activist for fifteen years and a conservative talk show host on and (mostly) off for 24 years, now, the fact that the Democratic party at any level say that they’re united without me, Mitch Berg, former Democrat, is proof that they are lying to the people about being “unified”.
Even though I believe absolutely none of the things that the DFL is currently about. Zero.
It doesn’t matter. As a former Democrat, I am what matters.
Absurd?
Not a whole lot worse than the Minnesota left’s current, desperate meme – that the GOP is split because Tom Horner – tax hiking, big-government insider with a client list of groups that will be Happy To Pay For A Better Minnesota (for them) – is really a Republican.
Anyway, I rambled through this series of events to make a very long winded point. Nowhere in that back and forth did you see a single Democrat mentioned as any part of this. Yet, it is the Democrats who gain the most traction in the poll.
In the same way that I”m “getting traction” with Scarlett Johannson by continually repeating how very much her destiny that I am. But I digress.
In this battle of (nit)wits [Oh, Dave Mindeman – you did not just do that – Ed.], all the players are Republicans or “former” Republicans…Horner is, himself, a former Republican Party analyst.
Yes, Dave Min(adequateanalyst)deman(glerofcontext) – in exactly the same way that I’m a “former” Democrat.
And don’t you dare argue with me, Dave. It’s for the good of party unity.
On Tuesday, voters in the Golden State will chose nominees for the state’s U.S. Senate general election. And while most of the media oxygen for the race (already fighting for air against the uber-expensive GOP gubernatorial primary) has been sucked up by the Republican electoral 3-way, Democrats must thin their herd as well. Only two Democrats are saying “no ma’am” to another term for incumbent Barbara Boxer: a disheveled, quixotic blogger and a vainglorious Hollywood “producer” whose campaign seems to be an excuse to post pictures of him with famous people.
No, this is not your typical Senate campaign command center; but then again, [Mickey] Kaus is not your typical Senate hopeful. His lair speaks more to his career of the last 10 years — prolific blogger and professional curmudgeon — than the one he’s currently aspiring to. As the one-man show behind Kausfiles on Slate, Mr. Kaus was one of the first political bloggers, after a print career that included stops at publications like Newsweek and Harper’s…
“If you’d asked me is he ever going to run for Senate, I’d say, ‘Are you crazy?’ ” says Michael Kinsley, editor at large of The Atlantic Wire and a longtime friend. “He seems like a classic blogger — someone who is happier in front of his computer than he is out kissing babies.”
But Mr. Kaus has thrown himself into his quixotic campaign with surprising earnestness, undeterred by his prospects (grim) and general diagnosis (insane). He is the first person to admit that he has absolutely no chance of becoming California’s next Senator, but contends that this is not really the point. He says he is running as a protest candidate in order to draw attention to his pet issues.
California has often been viewed as political laboratory – from recall elections and an ever-expanding list of constitutional propositions – even if most of their creations have taken on a Frankensteinesque quality in recent decades. So it might as well be that the strengthes and limitations of the first fully blog-based candidate be demonstrated on a West Coast ballot.
Much like the blog, Kaus Files, that launched him into prominence within the punditry, Mickey Kaus’ candidacy has been rife with political paradoxes. Instead of focusing on areas where he agrees with the Democratic base, Kaus is solidly running to Boxer’s right on unions and immigration. Attacked as a closet Republican, Kaus invokes Paul Wellstone is his campaign’s sole TV advertisement. Treating his campaign as a Dave Barry/Gore Vidal joke candidacy one minute, the next Kaus is writing serious political manifestos.
Yet it’s hard to escape the feeling that had Kaus taken himself – or his campaign – more seriously, his spoiler candidacy might have done more than simply garner a few memorable press clippings for his scrapebook.
If the mood of the electorate is hostile across the country, California voters appear ready to find the nearest Bastille. Every single major party candidate has their approval/disapproval numbers upside-down, including Boxer at 37/46 – and that’s relatively healthy compared to most of the other statewide candidates. And whether California Democrats wish to acknowledge it or not, Kaus’ pet issues of unions and immigration are two big parts of the mosaic of problems that have painted the state forever in the red.
When even the LA Timesrefuses to endorse the incumbent, you know the political climate has turned stormy. But the limitations of Kaus’ own personality precluded him turning the non-endorsement to his advantage. Or as the paper put it: “But we can’t endorse him, because he gives no indication that he would step up to the job and away from his Democratic-gadfly persona.”
Blogging has certainly give Kaus an leg-up otherwise undeserved by his campaign. What other forum would allow a candidate with a $36,000 budget, no visible support and with such blunt honesty about his chances that he was deined a speaking slot at the Democratic convention, as much media fanfare as Kaus has enjoyed?
But persuading an electorate is world’s away from simply unleasing opinions into the ether of the internet. Even recognized as one of the Founding Fathers of internet journalism and blogging, the height of Kaus’ popularity was 40,000 unique visitors each day – a tremendous audience in blog terms but a pittance in political value.
“The Kaus blog speaks to a very smart and important influential niche, but it’s still just a niche,” says the conservative blogger Jonah Goldberg, who has supported Mr. Kaus’s campaign in the National Review Online. “The universe of bloggers is a hell of a lot smaller than a lot of bloggers like to think.”
UPDATE: So much for the New York Times. Kaus was demolished, as expected, but surprisingly finished in 3rd – 55,000 votes behind Hollywoodd hanger-on Brian Quintana for 5.2%.
After watching a huge national disaster on the Gulf Coast, a propensity to golf while the world falls apart, a dearth of press conferences, a slew of risible verbal faux pas, a year of ramming unpopular legislation down the peoples’ throats, adopting and accelerating all of the aspects of the current War on Terror Man-Caused Disaster that were considered so noxious three years ago (including every single element of the Patriot Act), and watched epic corruption up to the White House Door, I thought “When will our media – which was so punctual about “investigating” each of these things before 2009, get on the stick.
Somewhere around the millennium, a new style of aggressive, public-interested, and astute reporter began sermonizing in print, advising on the Internet, and lecturing us on television. At the time I mistakenly assumed that reporters were too often partisans who were creating new, almost impossible standards of probity in order to embarrass conservative opponents: they wanted Republican scandal first, news second. But now, I see that they were simply laying nonpartisan new ground rules for the Bush administration so that they could later prove their integrity and professionalism when a member of their own faith would come into the new crucible of public examination. There was never, you see, a hate-Bush media. So we will shortly see that now as they unrelentingly turn their scrutiny on Barack Obama and his legion of ethical and competency lapses.
Say what you will about Matt Entenza. The current #3-runner in the DFL primary race knows what makes liberal voters (as opposed to DFL activists) swoon. He ended a couple of days of speculation yesterday by picking Channel 9 anchorette Robyne Robinson as his running mate.
In a news release from the Entenza campaign, Robinson said: “Whether it’s his vision for the clean energy economy, his dedication to reinvesting in schools, or his commitment to civil rights, Matt has spent his career standing up for Minnesota families. I am humbled and honored that he asked me to join his campaign. I look forward to traveling the state over the next months on the campaign trail and then getting to work making Matt’s bold vision a reality.”
Entenza’s “bold vision”, of course, is the same as that of Margaret Anderson-Kelliher and Mark Dayton (and his “Independence” Party rival, crypto-liberal Tom Horner); more m0ney. More money for PC boondoggles, more for the Minnesota Federation of Teachers (with fewer strings attached), more money for molding Minnesota to the DFL’s vision.
But Entenza has differentiated himself, and perhaps shrewdly, by picking Robinson.
Unlike Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s faux-bipartisan mock-reach-across-the-aisle to died-in-the-wool liberal John Gunyou (who is “bipartisan” because he was budget director for Arne Carlson, which is like saying Meier Lansky wasn’t a mobster because he wasn’t Italian), and Mark Dayton’s dreary shoring-up-with-the-activists choice of Yvonne Prettner-Solon, Entenza has shown that he understands the real lessons of the Obama victory; go shallow. Play for surface effect.
The mere possibility of an Entenza-Robinson ticket generated more heat for Entenza’s campaign than he’d been able to produce on his own, despite his year long campaign and his first-in-the-race television ad presence. While Fox 9 isn’t seen in every corner of the state, she has fans all over and adds star power to his campaign.
“This reinforces our message; we’ve got to do things a new way and we have to get refocused as a state. The old ways aren’t working,” Entenza said Thursday.
Robyne Robinson; bringing that vaunted TV Anchor rigor and knowledge to the Entenza ticket.
This morning, President Obama will meet with the NCAA men’s basketball champion Duke Blue Devils at the White House to honor their 2009-2010 championship season in the Rose Garden.
Keeping up the sports theme, the president and the vice president will take a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team and former President Bill Clinton, who is chairing the 2018 World Cup bid, on the North Portico. The White House has previously announced that Vice President Biden and Jill Biden will attend the World Cup in South Africa next month.
Afterward, the president will a private have lunch with President Clinton in the Private Dining Room.
The answer is obvious, if you’re a respected social theorist: Barack Obama hates bayou people.
In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks on the BP oil spill and the conclusions of his ordered 30-day safety review and hold a press conference in the East Room.
“There’s a sense of some things unraveling” to them, said Kerry.
But don’t do business agains the family!:
But he said that the D.C.-directed attacks are hypocritical, since many of those attacking Washington spending presumably want to keep their Social Security and Medicare and want Washington to play a big role in the Gulf Oil cleanup. “There’s a huge contradiction on a daily basis,” he said.
The great liberal conceit; that if you want some government services, you have to accept all of them.
I’ve been doing some checking – and talking with some sources. And I’m boggled by how very very disingenuous the DFL’s “LGA cuts are destroying Minnesota’s Cities!” meme is.
How disingenuous?
One of my multi-part series starts around noon today.
Robyne Robinson, who will leave her longtime post at FOX 9 this week, said Monday that she is considering signing on to be DFLer Matt Entenza’s running mate in the race for Minnesota governor.
But that makes it far from a done deal.
“I’m not saying yes or no to anything yet,” she said, confirming that she has been invited to be on the ticket. “When you’re approached with an offer like this, something very serious, very humbling, you can’t just give a frivolous answer.”
It’d be a good move for Entenza, who’d get access to Channel Nine’s Investigative unit.
Either does Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who compares the opposition he receives as head of a lobotomized blue state with what happens in Washington:
“It seems like child’s play compared to what is going on in Washington, where it is almost at the level of sedition, it feels to like me,” Patrick said.
Merriam-Webster.com, the dictionary site, defines sedition as “incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.”
But for goodness’ sake, don’t question his patriotism!
After the forum, Patrick explained his remarks.
“I think that the number of people in the Grand Old Party who seem to be absolutely committed to saying ‘no,’ whenever he says ‘yes,’ no matter what it is, even if it’s an idea that they came up with, is just extraordinary,” the governor told reporters after the forum.
If everything he says and does wrong (and everything he takes from us is used to soften things up for something equally loathsome), then why should we say “yes”? For the sake of Deval Patrick?
Two weeks after caterwauling that Tom Emmer had “stuck to his extreme right-wing agenda” by selecting Annette Meeks as his running mate, two of the three DFL gubernatorial candidates have…
…stuck with their extreme left-wing agendas in their choices of running mates.
Gunyou served as state finance commissioner during the first term of Republican Gov. Arne Carlson. He’s also worked as finance director for the City of Minneapolis and most recently as city manager of Minnetonka.
In other words, he ran the budget for a governor whose answer for everything was to raise taxes, then for a city that is falling apart, and finally as a manager for a third-tier suburb with a huge corporate and business tax base that can keep even the most megalomaniacal budget afloat…for a while.
And today came word that Mark Dayton has picked Yvonne Prettner Solon. Prettner Solon is a legislator from Duluth who has a lifetime 14 out of 100 rating from the Taxpayers’ League – and only a 7 in this past session.
The lesson for average Minnesotans is clear; elect Tom Emmer, or just attach your wallets to a shop-vac and save everyone the trouble.
