Barack Obama

Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared on Neil Cavuto’s program today on Fox News. He was, not surprisingly, dismissive of President Obama’s health-care address.
“His speech last night was essentially the public policy equivalent of leftover cold pizza,” Pawlenty said. “It was the same thing that the country’s already rejected with a few minor exceptions.”

While Rep. Michele Bachmann was acting a tad like a presidential candidate last night — she held a national conference-call rebuttal to Barack Obama’s address with bloggers — she tells Newsweek she’s not interested in running for the nation’s top job in 2012.

It must take a lot for a sitting congressman to shout “You’re a liar!” to the president of the United States at a rare joint session of Congress. Although Republican Rep. Joe Wilson has apologized for his outburst last night, John Tomasic at our sister site in Colorado still has a question: “Is Wilson paid [...]

President Obama will headline a rally for health insurance reform at Target Center in Minneapolis at 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Saturday, just three days after his nationally televised speech on the same topic. Why the Twin Cities? Maybe the White House saw the DFL fervor on display at health care reform rallies here last month. [...]

The Becker School District in central Minnesota’s Sherburne County will be joining schools in the Fergus Falls area in tape-delaying President Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday morning, according to a memo from superintendent Steven Dooley.

Rep. Michele Bachmann hit the stage at the Steamboat Institute’s first Freedom Conference in Colorado on Saturday. Ross Kaminsky of the Denver Post — who says he publicly commended Bachmann at the event for “kicking so much ass” — recaps her “brief but dynamic talk.” He writes that the 6th district Republican said President Obama [...]

President Obama called Congress’ “liberal lion,” Edward Kennedy, the “greatest United States senator of our time” — and his burial at Arlington National Cemetery will match that praise. But conservative bloggers are already complaining about his funeral, forecasting it’ll be a “Wellstone memorial on steroids.”

Orly Taitz, the “birther” attorney who gained a sort of official movement leadership status with this week’s appearence on “The Colbert Report,” is bragging that Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), and seven other members of Congress have accepted her friend requests on Facebook. Other new digital friends: radio host Michael Savage and Heritage [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is viewed unfavorably by 48 percent of Minnesotans, while 44 percent view him favorably, according to a new survey by Public Policy Polling. The lame-duck governor’s standing has faded since the polling firm’s last survey, when he won approval by a 46-40 percent margin.

A new poll suggests Sen.-elect Al Franken would have trouble following President Barack Obama’s vault from a single Senate-election victory to the White House. Beyond that, it’s not clear why it matters that 44 percent of voters across the country have an unfavorable view of the Democrat or that 34 percent like him at least “somewhat.” [...]