Tag: Pawlenty
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Connected
Something I missed in the crush of events this past week: the north and south banks of the Mississippi are connected again: Image is from the MNDoT webcam. You don’t want to drive on it yet, naturally – but last Wednesday, the contractors did the final pour to connect the main segments of the northbound…
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Speak The Language
When you earn your living by trying to explain things to other people, one of the first lessons you learn is “try to use language your subject can understand – language that is accessible to the person you’re trying to expain to”. I try to apply this lesson to the rest of my life. Molly…
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The Veepstakes
Since the GOP nomination’s been wrapped up for almost three months, now, the question “Who’ll Mac pick for VP” has been gurgling about the place. Governor Pawlenty, of course, has been a key contender for a long, long time; young, great approval, decent if not invincible record of success as governor and legislator, conservative enough…
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The Right Vote Of Conscience
A few weeks ago, when the Legislature overrode Governor Pawlenty’s veto of the Transit Subsidy “Transportation” Taxpayer Gougefest Bill, we were subjected to an endless, nauseating, hypocritical run of up-sucking from the DFLMedia/Sorosphere about the eight RINOS who betrayed the governor and their party when it came time to try to save the veto –…
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A Further Reason…
…if any were needed, that liberals must be kept away from the machinery of power, since they just don’t know what they’re doing; Jeff Fecke over at Sorosmania the MinMon (and I swear, this is not satire) covers Governor Pawlenty’s tax cut proposal (emphasis added): Saying that “The economy in our country is under great…
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Absolute Conformity
Last week, the Minnesota GOP acted against the six House “Republicans” who voted with the Tics to override Governor Pawlenty’s veto of the “Transportation” Bill. The House GOP Caucus stripped the six of their committee leadership positions and other party-assigned perks; movements to unseat them proceeded from the bottom up as well, with Kathy Tingelstad…
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Kick It In The Throat
Governor Pawlenty vetoes the Mass Transit Subsidy Act “Transportation Bill“. Republicans, consider yourself on notice. Screw the governor on this, and the regional alt-media will be on you like lobbyists on a Gold Card. And we forget nothing. Over at True North, Gary Gross writes: This sets up an override showdown that’s likely to start…
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Undercutting the Governor and Conservatism
Andy Aplikowski gets the scoop of the week, over at RezFor and True North. The DFL plying Republicans to try to get them to override another gubernatorial tax-bill veto: I followed a tip this evening down to Monte Carlo in downtown Minneapolis. I was told that Republican Reps. Bud Heidgerken (R) 13A & Dean Urdahl…
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A Blade of Grass Grows in Saint Paul (and Minneapolis) – Part I
The inner cities have their issues. If you’re in Minnesota and reading this, you know about them; you’ve either fled them, are paying for them via your taxes, or are – like me – living among them. Minneapolis and Saint Paul are taxed half to death; Minneapolis’ crime rate has fallen from brutally-high to merely…
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The Lady’s Not For Triangulating
Sue Jeffers is not amused by T-Paw’s slip to the left: OK Governor Pawlenty, we know you have jumped on the green band wagon. We got it. We knew it with E-85, we knew it at the Governor’s Convention, we knew it with the Renewable Energy Bill, and we knew it with the Global…
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Go Ask Alice, When She’s Ten Feet Tall
I’m amusing myself at the moment by pondering this question: How would Lori Sturdevant describe a leader among conservatives, one who was unswerving in his devotion to conservative first principles and in their forwarding in the Legislature? Someone like, say, Michele Bachmann or Phil Krinkie were, when they were in the State Senate? Or like…
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Premature Capitulation
The groundswell is growing; Minnesotans don’t want the DFL to hijack last week’s tragedy to ram through a shopping list of their pork projects. 57% of Minnesotans aren’t buying it. I’ve heard some lefties respond to this poll “of course people oppose a new tax; you need to ask them what the tax is…
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I’m Not So Much Amazed…
…that failed Air America host-ette Randee Rhodez took the same pro-forma shot at Governor Pawlenty that every single other liberal pundit, activist and media figure (and instant civil engineer) has taken this past few days…: What you’re watching, should have the chyron underneath, instead of it saying Governor Tim Pawlenty, or news conference on bridge collapse, or…
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The Bridge: Almost Too Loathsome To Loathe
My pal and neighbor, Flash at Centrisity, notes the part of Minnesota’s response to the Bridge Collapse that we’d all like to focus on: Minnesotans have shown their true colors with displays heroism and unconditional support. Through this tragedy we will rediscover the pride we have in our fellow citizens. What he said; except that there’s…
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Anonymous Sources: “Shut Up And Go Away”
It’s been a week since I and my readers noted several instances of the the Minnesota Monitor’s Jeff Fecke publishing quotes of statements uttered during interviews he did not attend, and which would seem, in several cases, to have been taken from Associated Press wire copy. These quotes were made without attribution. When questioned, he…
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Anonymous Sources, Part III – In Someone Else’s Words
This is Part III of a three part series. Part I appeared last Wednesday, and Part II was published last Friday. ———- Here’s the story, so far. In Part I, we noted that Jeff Fecke, when pressed about the attribution of a quote from MNGOP chair Ron Carey, in a story in this article…
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Biased, Unbalanced, and Fact-Challenged
Rentablogger Jeff Fecke yet again bobbles his “facts”. In the midst of an exceedingly obtuse whack at Governor Pawlenty, Fecke – who may be the most fact-challenged “journalist” in Minnesota today – writes about Luke Hellier. Hellier is a conservative Republican whom Pawlenty has nominated for one of the student spots on the MNSCU Board…
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Baby Step?
Matt Abe at Scholar’s Notebook notes a couple of GOP-sponsored bills that might just be a step in the right direction: A pair of bills with bipartisan support (HF 2007 and SF 1768), including Senate authors Sen. David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) and Sen. Warren Limmer (R-Maple Grove) and a raft of DFL authors in the…
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Berg In The Morning
One thing about BlogTalkRadio – everyone seems to want to do their webcasts in the evening. Contrarian that I am, I had to ask myself – why? So, as an experiment, I’m going to try something else; a morning webcast. My current plan is to do something early in the AM, somewhere between 2-5 mornings…
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Mommystate Alert
Actually, some modestly good news from the Capitol on the DFL’s proposed statewide smoking ban; thank goodness for outstate DFLers: The momentum toward a statewide smoking ban was slowed on Wednesday in a key Senate committee. But the bill survived a crucial amendment that supporters say would have “gutted” the proposed legislation if it had…
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Pawlenty’s “Education” Bill
With much ado, the Governor is pushing a new education bill. Like most all such bills, it’s another take on rearranging the deck chairs on the Lusitania. It’s the same tired mix of money, “accountability” and perks to the teachers union, with no addressing of the real problem; Matt from North Star Liberty writes: Rather…
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Hang Onto Your Wallets
The Strib is happy with Pawlenty’s tone at his inauguration: As Pawlenty acknowledged, achieving shared government won’t be easy I love that term; “shared government”. You can bet that had Mike Hatch choked a few thousand more votes out last November, the “s” word would be nowhere to be found. especially if it’s to achieve…
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Open Letter to Gov. Pawlenty
Well, it looks like you did it. Unofficial estimates of the projected revenue surplus through June 2009 range up to $1.2 billion, a far cry from the $4.5 billion shortfall that greeted Gov. Tim Pawlenty and legislators in 2003, a hole the state has been digging out of practically ever since. That heavy lifting has…
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100 Reasons I’m Voting Republican Tomorrow
I did this two years ago (and on the air two weeks ago); people seemed to like it. Time for a reprise. This bit isn’t aimed so much at the undecideds, or at those of you who are planning to vote DFL/Democrat. No, this is aimed at those of you who are Republicans who are…