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Amy Klobuchar pressed to sponsor Defense of Marriage Act repeal

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By Andy Birkey | 07.20.11 | 9:45 am

On Tuesday, two groups called on Sen. Amy Klobuchar to sign on as a cosponsor of a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) noting that she is the only Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee who has not taken that step.

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President Clinton: Bachmann, new Republicans in political ‘parallel universe’

By Andy Birkey | 02.07.11 | 8:00 am

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, former President Bill Clinton said that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s assertion that the United States has the best health care system in the world is not true and that the new crop of Republicans in Congress are living “in a parallel universe divorced from reality with no facts.” Clinton was responding to comments Bachmann made during her Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

Clinton calls Bachmann ‘stupid,’ Bachmann calls Clinton ‘bizarre’

By Andy Birkey | 09.21.10 | 12:21 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann lashed out at Bill Clinton on conservative radio this weekend after the former president criticized Bachmann at a fundraiser for her DFL opponent Tarryl Clark last week. Both Clinton and Bachmann have been prolific with fundraising emails…

Bachmann: Net neutrality is ‘censorship’

By Andy Birkey | 04.20.10 | 2:40 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Monday to defend herself from critiques lodged against her for her claim that President Obama and the Democrats are running a “gangster…

Bachmann hits back at Bill Clinton: ‘I am nothing’

By Andy Birkey | 04.19.10 | 8:15 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann laughed off criticism leveled at her by former President Bill Clinton at an event hosted by the Chicago Tea Party Patriots and the Chicago Republican Party on Saturday. Clinton said Bachmann’s statements about President Obama and…

Clinton, McCollum, Blackburn challenge Bachmann’s ‘gangster’ remarks

By Andy Birkey | 04.19.10 | 8:00 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann is taking heat over statements she made at a Tea Party gathering in Washington, D.C., last week when she called the Obama administration and Democratic Congress a “gangster government.” Those remarks have prompted a strong rebuke from…

TPM’s Marshall recalls Franken’s ’99 stint as an accidental reporter

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.11.09 | 11:37 am

TPM’s Josh Marshall, sparked by a photo of Sen. Al Franken at Obama’s health care speech this week, digs up an anecdote from early in his career when he was covering President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. The year…

Saberi art show coincides with Clinton’s visit to North Korea on behalf of jailed reporters

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.04.09 | 10:51 am

saberi21Update: CNN confirms that North Korea has released and pardoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
As a Fargo artist renders one local symbol of press freedom in stencils — journalist Roxana Saberi, who was accused of…

SCOTUS also-rans carried more campaign-donor baggage

By Chris Steller | 05.28.09 | 11:31 am

0504court_articleBarack Obama’s White House would rather not fight or switch when it comes to making nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court. So it wouldn’t be surprising if Sonia Sotomayor’s clean slate on political campaign contributions weighed in…

As transportation secretary, Republican LaHood travels well

By Andy Birkey | 12.18.08 | 7:44 am

President-elect Barack Obama is making good on his promise to include the opposition in his cabinet: He’ll be nominating Republican Rep. Ray LaHood as the next Secretary of Transportation. While some in the liberal blogosphere are outraged that Obama is naming a moderate Republican to the post, I’m not. I cast the first vote of my life for LaHood, a native of my hometown, Peoria, Illinois. And many others, from Central Illinois Democrats to my conservative mom, a self-described “dittohead,” are calling LaHood a solid, pragmatic choice.