Bill Baar's West Side (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
CC chastises failures to google . Made me recall Blackfive's recent post on Obama Salutes, and this link to the NYT . Reagan started the practice..... Presidents have long been saluted, but they began returning salutes relatively recently. Ronald Reagan was thought to be the first, in 1981. He had sought advice on the matter from Gen. Robert Barrow, commandant of the Marine Corps. According to John...
Dump Michele Bachmann (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Eric Black covers the IP convention's decision, and the implications at Minn Post . The most immediate impact of the change is that Dr. Maureen Reed, who was seeking the endorsement of both the DFL and IP in her race for Congress in the 6th District, will completely focus on the DFL process, according to her campaign manager, although he said that she was already focused on the DFL before the IP policy...
The Power Liberal (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
if you aren't on here and should be, please email me or tweet me here. I assume you can copy/paste the code from here. If not, contact me so I can email it to you. Minnesota Progressive Blogs Across the Great Divide At the Hillocks of Hysteria Barataria Blog of the Moderate Left Blue Man in a Red District A Bluestem Prairie Both of Us Centrisity The Cucking Stool Dump John Kline Eleventh Avenue South...
EckerNet.Com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Construction contractor Dan Powers, of Burnsville, has announced he intends to challenge Rep. John Kline, for Minnesota’s Second District, in 2010. And from his statements so far, he’s fully embraced the sacrificial lamb role for which he’s destined. Powers says Kline’s stance against earmarks has hurt the district. He says he wants universal health care and [...]
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This post originally appeared on the Alliance for a Better Minnesota blog, where I work. There is a lot to get excited about at Netroots Minnesota . With two days of engaging panels and workshops, there is sure to be something for every progressive looking to learn how to grow our movement in Minnesota. In addition to all of the panels and trainings, attendees of the conference this weekend are going...
Kicking Ass (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Call 'Em Out series continues this week -- and this time we’re calling out the House GOP . All but one Republican member of the House voted against health insurance reform last Saturday. During the 12-hours preceding the vote, GOP members stood at the podium spouting lie after lie in a last ditch effort to kill reform. Watch our video showing all of the outrageous lies from the House debate...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Rep. John Kline (R-MN) most recent elevation to ranking minority on the House Education and Labor Committee means that he needs to do everything humanly possible to obstruct, oppose and attack anything the Obama Administration tries to accomplish on education. Most recently, he's conveniently forgotten the 8 years of the Bush Administration's politicization of every single department of our government....
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"Presidents have long been saluted, but they began returning salutes relatively recently. Ronald Reagan was thought to be the first, in 1981. He had sought advice on the matter from Gen. Robert Barrow, commandant of the Marine Corps. According to John Kline, then Mr. Reagan’s military aide and today a member of Congress from Minnesota, General Barrow told the president that as commander...
Gavin Sullivan (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Condoleezza Rice spoke this evening at the conservative [in both senses] Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park --and Women Against Military Madness arranged an anti-torture rally outside the event. [ Strib , KSTP , Fox , MPP ] About one hundred protesters showed up. It was almost 60°F outside with no precipitation--a rarity for mid-November. While there I chatted briefly with Coleen Rowley , who...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This is one of the signs displayed at Bachmann's rally against health care. Congressman John Kline told a radio audience that about one hundred members of the Republican Conference in Congress appeared in person in outside the Capitol to support the demonstrators. So: do lawmakers like Bachmann and her Republican colleagues have a responsibility to condemn the hate signs they see at these events? Or...
Dump John Kline (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Representative John Kline (R-MN) has been an out-spoken opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Kline has framed this issue as one of protecting us from tyrannies that use secret ballots. “There are sacred principles that epitomize American democracy ,” wrote Rep. John Kline (R-MN), attacking EFCA. He's even gone so far as to introduce a 'secret ballot protection act' . Yet now...
The Debate Link (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The final tally was 344 in favor to 36 opposed (22 "present"). Among the nays were three Republicans: Charles Boustany (LA), Geoff Davis (KY), and Ron Paul (TX), with two more GOPers voting present (Walter Jones (NC) and John Duncan (TN)). All the folks who have represented me in Congress (Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), John Kline (R-MN), and Bobby Rush (D-IL) voted aye (full roll call here )....
Potomac Flacks (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Ryan Murphy has been hired as Press Secretary on the Republican staff of the House Education and Labor Committee for Ranking Member U.S. Representative John Kline (R-MN), beginning in November. Murphy is now Communications Director for Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). He previously was Deputy Press Secretary for Rep. Tom Price (R-GA). (CQ’s “People on the Move” column)
Dump John Kline (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
How Representative John Kline makes decisions: War Heads : Must do it now…fast, hurry up, no time to waste, don’t think about it, now is the time for action… “The failure to take action sends a loud and clear statement to the world about America's commitment -- or lack thereof …” Health Tails : Stop, Slow down, push the reset button, let’s rethink this,...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Some 30 citizens braved the cold Monday evening, October 26, 2009 to light candles and to plead for a smidgen of health care for the American people. They stood in from of Congressman Erik Paulsen's Eden Prairie office, our representative who smugly announces he will vote against any health care improvement because. "We need to go slow." Decades have passed, Americans get sicker and die,...
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