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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty made an election eve appearance on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday — a rare visit by a conservative on Maddow’s fledgling cable-TV companion to her popular Air America radio program. His key message, with an eye to 2012: “I’m available, I’m available.” Video after the jump, with a transcription of Pawlenty’s comments on McCain and Obama, the Franken-Coleman U.S. Senate race in Minnesota, and whether Gov. Sarah Palin is a drag on the ticket or a future leader of the party.
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent Hardball blow-up has undoubtedly endangered her re-election prospects. But what do constituents in the 6th Congressional District think of Bachmann’s latest episode of foot-in-mouth disease? On Tuesday afternoon Chris Steller and I ventured into the northern suburbs to speak with voters about the controversy and their feelings regarding Bachmann. The responses were diverse, from a man who calls Bachmann a “nutcase” to a woman who shares Bachmann’s concerns about Barack Obama to a man who no longer votes because he feels all politicians are crooks.
Minnesota’s entire Democratic Congressional delegation, Republican and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman…
Rep. Michele Bachmann now says her words were “misconstrued” when she said she wondered if Barack Obama has “anti-American views,” and she says MSNBC’s Chris Matthews used the A-word first. A look at the transcript shows she’s correct — but that just before Matthews did, she described Obama and other Democrats by using a Russian word that had its heyday in Stalin’s time.
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