Rush Limbaugh

President Obama isn’t the only politician to be featured in this year’s seed art competition at the Minnesota State Fair. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann inspired two different crop tributes — although the works aren’t exactly flattering.

Vice President Joe Biden has been booked for Al Franken’s swearing-in as a U.S. Senator, and Franken says he will be accompanied at the ceremony by former Vice President Walter Mondale and Sen. Amy Klobuchar. It “looks like” it will happen next Tuesday, he said — a date that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office [...]

Norm Coleman is giving the keynote speech at the Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference, which began in St. Louis today. The two-day conference features such hard-right luminaries as Phyllis Schlafly, Rush Limbaugh’s brother and Grover Norquist. Does the endorsement of Coleman — who’s always tried to project himself as a moderate — suggest a shift in [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is no longer swimming at the deep end with the Republican Party’s top 10 ‘influencers,” says The Fix. But he had another visit from the person in the fish suit during his radio show today — a sure sign it’s time to declare a winner in last week’s caption contest.

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 [...]

Democrats have invented an online tool that generates apology letters to Rush Limbaugh with a series of drop-down menus for filling in the blanks.

The morning after Rush Limbaugh repeated his “I hope Obama fails” during the keynote to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told TV’s “sabbath gasbags” (Calvin Trillin’s term) that Limbaugh “is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.” But Minnesota’s self-described senator-elect called that [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty probably wishes he hadn’t been included in the presidential straw poll at the just-concluded Conservative Political Action Conference. Pawlenty was the top choice of just 2 percent of voters to be the GOP’s standard-bearer in 2012.
The winner of the straw poll was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, garnering 20 percent of the [...]

The State Canvassing Board’s determination earlier this week that Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race by 225 votes has caused some rather unseemly frothing among right-wing pundits. The talking points were initially established by the Wall Street Journal editorial board, which after years of railing against “judicial activism” strangely castigated the canvassing board for [...]

The Daily Beast has a provocative piece up today theorizing that Sen. Al Franken might be just the remedy for an ailing Republican Party. Writer Benjamin Sarlin posits that Franken presents exactly the type of frothing, over-the-top liberalism that the GOP needs to demonize Democrats as out of touch with mainstream Americans. He cites Franken’s [...]