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Pawlenty bows to tea-partiers in GOP weekly address

By Chris Steller | 04.11.09 | 6:11 am

mary-pawlenty-bows-to-tim-pawlenty-stillIn the Republican response to President Obama’s weekly address today, Gov. Tim Pawlenty regurgitates the right-wing Tax Foundation’s discredited “Tax Freedom Day” calculation to claim that ”the average American has to work from January 1st until this Monday, April…

Obama speaks of floods, FEMA and the Fargodome — but not Hurricane Katrina

By Chris Steller | 03.28.09 | 9:08 am

President Obama devoted his weekly address today to the communities of Minnesota and the Dakotas that are fighting record floods this weekend. He didn’t mention Hurricane Katrina.

More, including a full transcript, after the jump.