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Minnesotans saw a strange spectacle Wednesday — and not only the freak funnel cloud that visited Minneapolis. At about the same time, just blocks from where the twister struck downtown, their governor was spouting off on national TV about health care as if nothing had just happened.

In the Bizarro Land that is modern American politics, all is turned upside-down. Conservatives are toting dog-eared copies of “Rules for Radicals” by the late lefty Saul Alinsky, Jon Stewart has dubbed Fox News the “new liberals,” and — wait for it — Michele Bachmann, a vehement abortion opponent, is telling the government to keep [...]

Meteorologists may have failed to forecast yesterday’s freak tornado, but political scientists are now able to predict when U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will next appear on a national cable news show: Aug. 27.

Speaking with Fox’s Sean Hannity Tuesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann asserted that health care reform is not constitutional, and falsely equated a public option with a “national takeover of health care.”

Gov. Pawlenty got off an international flight from Iraq and Afghanistan and immediately took to the domestic airwaves. The health care reform plan is a “joke” he told Fox News, and President Obama is ”scamming the American people” — with “false advertising,” he added on Minnesota Public Radio. On his WCCO-AM show this morning, Pawlenty interviewed Colin [...]

“Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election,” pronounced the Wall Street Journal’s editorialists today. Election-law expert Edward Foley was quick to respond: “[T]his election was about as far from ‘stolen’ as any extraordinarily close and intensely disputed election could be — and to use that term in this context is [...]

Fox News reported yesterday that although taking Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election to federal courts “could take years, election law experts say it may be the only way to satisfy everyone.” But Fox’s one expert (not “experts”) is Hans von Spakovsky, whose controversial appointment by former President George W. Bush to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) [...]

“Minnesota Representative and free-range cougar” Michele Bachmann got prominent play on The Daily Show last night as a key example of conservatives “speaking crazy to power.” At 2:50 into the clip (below), host Jon Stewart plays Bachmann’s recent comments that an expansion of the AmeriCorps program might lead to PC “re-education camps.”

In England, police are warning about a “Summer of Rage” to be ushered in by riots during an April meeting of the G20 group of nations in London. Economic conditions might inspire even the middle class to take to the streets. Back in the States, Glenn Beck and his Fox News friends had fun teasing [...]

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, appearing on Fox News’ Hannity’s America program Tuesday, described Minnesota’s election process as having favored rival Al Franken since the recount started. Coleman did not directly dispute host Sean Hannity’s assertion that the State Canvassing Board “was conflicted” and “only allowed the recount for … precincts that would tend to favor Al Franken.”

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