Dick Cheney

Norm Coleman went farther than other Republican eminences have in moving from praise to outright endorsement of Gov. Tim Pawlenty for higher office: “If that’s what he chooses to do … I think he’d make a great president.”

Can the Twins beat the New York Yankees? We’ll know the answer by the time Vice President Biden arrives for an Oct. 15 Democratic Party fundraiser at the Edina home of a member of the Pohlad family that owns the Twins. It’s Biden’s first time back since taking St. Cloud by storm last spring, and [...]

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.

By way of explaining his decision not to seek re-election, Gov. Tim Pawlenty bragged to Fox News host Sean Hannity last night that “in Minnesota [we're] good about taking turns.” In view of Pawlenty’s past, his highlighting the concept of taking turns is highly suggestive about how he sees his future.
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“Deadeye Dick” Cheney could learn a few things from Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson. While Cheney peppered his pal with shot in a 2006 hunting outing, Peterson’s more adept with firearms: Roll Call (subscription only) reports that the 7th District Democrat is Congress’ best shot.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann may have started it last fall with loopy comments on national TV about her congressional colleagues’ “anti-American” views. Last week, she again tried to “out” fellow lawmakers, this time for supporting AIG’s bonuses, while a widely quoted (but anonymous) banker termed the U.S. House of Representatives’ bonus tax “anti-American” — helping [...]

This zoom-able online panoramic photo of the presidential inauguration is a “Where’s Waldo” puzzle for fun-loving political junkies (with slight stalker tendencies). One Minnesotan could school those vain attendees who went sans chapeau: U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar knows that hardiness means wearing a hat. And isn’t that Oberstar’s brother-in-beret and fellow committee chairman U.S. Rep. Henry [...]

Cities aren’t their base, so Republicans in federal elective office generally don’t talk about urban affairs. In fact, they went so far as to delete the phrase from the name of the House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (now the Committee on Financial Services) – in a fit of “Republican political correctness,” according to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank [...]

Thanks for the memories. Now please go away. Yes, we’re talking about you, Rudy Giuliani. And you, Wolf Blitzer. We no longer wish to be a swing state. Henceforth the residents of the state of Minnesota promise to vote reliably Democratic. Or Republican. It doesn’t much matter which — just as long as you people promise to stop showing up in our little slice of the frozen tundra seeking to feel our pain. But to memorialize the horrors visited upon us during the (still ongoing) campaign season, we offer — in honor of our favorite member of the Statewide General Election Canvassing Board — the G. Barry Anderson Awards.

Madoff, Palin, Bush, Blagojevich… Bachmann? The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky ranks Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District Rep. Michele Bachmann fifth in “America’s hall of shame.” Her suggestion that journalists should investigate whether Barack Obama and other members of Congress have “anti-American views” — which Tomasky calls “the single most appalling political statement of the year” — merited [...]