Hundreds gathered at the Minnesota Capitol on Thursday for a Tax Day Tea Party to express their displeasure with President Obama and the economic policies of Democrats. While no politicians were invited to speak, Rep. Michele Bachmann phoned in a message to attendees, calling Democrats “piggies” who look at Tea Partiers as “chumps.”
Rep. John Kline was one of nine House Republicans — and the only Minnesotan — at President Obama’s bipartisan health care reform summit Thursday. Kline spoke about the Republican plan to create small business associations to pool health insurance…
In a fiery fundraising pitch for the American Conservative Union Strikeforce, Rep. Michele Bachmann asks supporters, “Will you let Barack Obama KILL conservatism?” Calling the president a “political street fighter,” she says his “agenda is a dagger pointed right…
Minnesota’s best chance at a mention during the State of the Union — barring an unlikely shout-out to accused phone-repair impersonator Joe Basel — is Sen. Al Franken’s new jobs bill, inspired by a Minnesota program.…
Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate election is making some old Minnesota political names new again. Brown calls himself an “Independent Republican” — the same name Minnesota’s GOP used for 20 years after Watergate.…
In a move that is being hailed by LGBT advocates and derided by the religious right, President Obama made his first appointment of a transgender person to a federal post this week. Amanda Simpson will be the new…
Al Franken says he was only following orders to keep the health-care debate moving when he cut off Joe Lieberman’s speech in the U.S. Senate at the 10-minute mark.
“The Nobel Committee gambled and lost,” says Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, assistant professor of justice and peace studies at the University of St. Thomas. President Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize was “a defense of war and militarism. … With this…
In a matchup between President Barack Obama and Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Obama would win by ten points, according to a new St. Cloud State University poll (pdf) released Tuesday. When asked who they would vote for in 2012, 49…
U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen is one of 33 Republicans in Congress who have “a giant target on their back” after voting against an overhaul of health-care system Saturday. That’s according to the Democratic National Committee, which announced…
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