Democrats in Congress are readying a formal rebuke, but U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann tells Newsmax TV that “Joe Wilson spoke truth on the floor of the U.S. House.”
Besides U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson bellowing “You lie!” Wednesday, two leading House Republicans were paying President Obama no mind — or respect — during his Wednesday address to a joint session of Congress. Minority Whip Eric Cantor, who had promised…
U.S. Rep. John Kline knows his buttons. As a Marine, he stayed at the side of Presidents Reagan and Carter, carrying the satchel known as the “nuclear football” that holds the how-to kit for pressing the most…
Repurpose the trade missions, Gov. Pawlenty. Pack your old USO suitcase, Sen. Franken. Minnesota needs its most experienced road warriors for an emergency PR mission to the rest of the world: Neutralize Richard…
The auditorium at Oak-Land Junior High School in Lake Elmo was nearly filled to capacity an hour before the main attraction was slated to appear. Several hundred additional folks gathered to watch the proceedings on a television screen in the school’s cafeteria. If by no other standard than attendance, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s first town hall meeting on health care reform was a smashing success.
Updated: An apropos line (or two) from the original 1951 sci-fi movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” got a big response from a packed house Monday night at the Heights Theater in Columbia Heights, just…
The Republican Party of Minnesota and the Republican National Committee released a pair of ads on Tuesday attacking Reps. Tim Walz and Collin Peterson on health care reform. The spots spoof the ubiquitous television ads for prescription medications…
U.S. Sen. Al Franken has acceded to a formal request from Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) that the Minnesota senator add Alaska and Hawaii when he draws freehand maps of the United States as a parlor trick. Franken, whose 2007…
What kind of “crack research” is Fox’s Gretchen Carlson smoking? The Fox & Friends co-host and former Miss Minnesota claimed today that after spending “a tremendous amount of time” researching the issue, she found that only two cash-for-clunkers…
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann again ripped the U.S. Census at the outset of an August congressional break that she’s bookending with trips to Israel and Colorado.
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