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Times to Coleman: Drop Dead

By Chris Steller | 04.16.09 | 7:52 am

times-over-normAdd the New York Times to the list of newspaper editorial boards that want Norm Coleman to quit while he’s behind.
UPDATED after the jump with more new newspaper editorials.

New GOP Video: In case you haven’t heard, Franken screwed up his taxes

By Paul Schmelzer | 02.06.09 | 3:47 pm

The Minnesota GOP dropped a new web video today, linking Al Franken’s failure to properly pay taxes to Obama cabinet nominees like Timothy Geithner (now Treasury Secretary) and would’ve-been HHS secretary Tom Daschle. But it’s not…

Video: Facing Cadillac tax problems, Daschle should’ve kept the Pontiac

By Paul Schmelzer | 02.03.09 | 11:50 am

Here’s an ironic footnote to news that Sen. Tom Daschle, the South Dakota Democrat and Obama’s pick for Health and Human Services head, failed to pay taxes related to a Cadillac that carried him about Washington…

Dems push for Ramstad to lead mental health, drug abuse agency

By Jonathan E. Kaplan | 12.10.08 | 8:52 am

While Rep. Jim Ramstad’s name has been floated as a possible choice for “drug czar” in the administration of Barack Obama, the retiring nine-term congressman has apparently set his sights on another job, head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — and the Republican has enlisted Democrats, notably Sen. Edward Kennedy and Reps. Patrick Kennedy and Pete Stark, to lobby on his behalf.