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Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he might not sign an election certificate to seat Democrat Al Franken or Republican Norm Coleman in the U.S. Senate, even after the Minnesota Supreme Court is done with the disputed election.
“I also would want to look at what the courts did with the case in terms of leaving issues for [...]

As we reported yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been saying that Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade plan for global warming will cost households $3,100 each year in energy costs. Only trouble is, the author of the MIT study she’s citing said last month she’s flat wrong. Now MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is calling out the Minnesota Republican for [...]

More newspapers, online media outlets and political pundits are offering former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman free advice — mainly that he look in the mirror and see that he’s toast.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty moved from one media platform to the next yesterday, topping off three hours as guest host on a local Christian talk radio station with six minutes on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Pawlenty stepped gingerly around Rush Limbaugh’s “I hope Obama fails” comments and seemed confident that his own comments to Maddow [...]

MSNBC must stand for Minnesotans Speak Nightly By Cable. For the fourth straight night, the TV news channel carried a segment featuring a prominent elected official from the state. Thursday it was again Gov. Tim Pawlenty, this time on “Hardball” representing Republican governors who opposed the federal stimulus bill but will accept the money (a [...]

And on the fourth day they rested? Minnesota’s top two elected officials spent the last three days talking economic stimulus on the airwaves and cable lines of two supposed bastions of liberal media, MSNBC and National Public Radio. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on successive nights, [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty told MSNBC on Monday that Republicans need to allow President Barack Obama to carry out his agenda, particularly with regard to fixing the economy.
“We need to give him a lot of latitude,” Pawlenty said. “He wants to be forward-looking, forward-leaning, and we should give him some space in that regard.”
Pawlenty and his [...]

On ABC News Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged knowing about and approving of the torture technique known as waterboarding.
“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do,” Cheney said. “And they [...]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington picked their list (PDF) of the nine most embarrassing reelected members of Congress. Among the Democrats and Republicans featured in the watchdog group’s booklet, Rep. Michele Bachmann gets top billing (they listed members in alphabetical order).
CREW noted the controversy created when Bachmann appeared on MSNBC and questioned the [...]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s 180-degree turn on Barack Obama has made her a New York Times cover girl today, the lead example in a front-page story on Republicans whose opinions of Obama have undergone drastic makeovers in the five days since his landslide victory in the presidential election. But hers wasn’t an immediate conversion, or even overnight as the Times has it. The political calculation required to move from worries about Obama’s “anti-American views” to his gladness over his African-American background took a little more time, even for a woman who also promised him a kiss.