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gregladen | June 10, 2009I put this below the fold because Sean Hannity is obscene.
Did she say "We believe in rational discord?" (at about 1:38)
Hat Tip DMB
gregladen | June 8, 2009... Entire state breaths collective sigh of relief ...
Speculation was mounting in St. Paul and elsewhere that Gov. Tim Pawlenty's decision not to seek a third term in 2010 -- perhaps to seek the 2012 Republican U.S. presidential nomination -- means Coleman is planning to end his legal battle with Democrat Al Franken to overturn his recount loss in November's Senate race and instead run to replace Pawlenty.
But unnamed Coleman sources say that's not the case, the Washington publication Politico reported Monday.
"Not at all," said the source. "He ran for U.S. senator, wants to continue being…
gregladen | June 4, 2009Legal experts are largely undivided in the opinion that Norm Coleman's Minnesota Supreme Court bid to overturn a lower judicial panel's decisions regarding the vote count in the Minnesota Senate race is senseless and has no chance whatsoever of winning.
This opinion was widely held prior to the presentation of arguments by Coleman, but now, with some real face time in the high court behind us, in which we see the arguments for real, and see the reaction by the judges, it is confirmed and certain that Coleman's fate is sealed.
But what is not known at this time is the fate of Governor Pawlenty…
gregladen | June 2, 2009Bachmann implies that killing doctors and other terrorist acts is the expression of a "difference in opinion," and that people who are against killing doctors is merely an "interest group".
She calls for the investigation of those who would call right wing killers "terrorists."
Read more here.
Bachmann's comments are in response to Janet Napolitano's concerns over right wing extremism. These concerns were voiced before the murder of Dr. Tillman by an anti-abortion activist with Operation Rescue. The document mentions single-issue anti abortion or anti-immigration leanings together with…
gregladen | May 31, 2009Erratum published in the Times Observer:
An errant classified "personal" ad which appeared in Thursday's Times Observer has drawn the attention of law enforcement officials.
A person from Warren placed the ad, which apparently alludes to the wish that President Obama meet an untimely end by linking him with four assassinated presidents. The ad representative didn't make the connection among the four other presidents mentioned and mistakenly allowed the ad to run.
Upon realizing the mistake early Thursday morning, the ad was immediately discontinued and the identity of the person who placed…
gregladen | May 31, 2009Somebody's got to put the Cheney's back in the bottle!
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One thing is missing in this report, and Rachel, if you're reading this, maybe you can address it. Why does Liz Cheney get to see top secret document? Huh?
gregladen | May 15, 2009More proof that Republican = Loon. And I'm not talking about birds.
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gregladen | May 15, 2009Important note: This 'gaff' (=offensive remark) was made in a private meeting but 'got out' via Twitter, and eventually nailed down by a blogger.
Welcome to the 21st century.
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gregladen | May 12, 2009I always liked Jesse. I didn't agree with about half of his policies, but I did not have the automated lefty knee jerk reaction against him that almost everyone I know had. Hey, he did after all, beat Norm Coleman in that governor's race!
Of course, he also beat my candidate, Humphrey. But in so doing Ventura demonstrated what happens when we Democratic Farm Laborers in Minnesota get together to put up a candidate for governor: We screw it up. Humphrey was not the candidate for that election. So we got Ventura. Hatch was not the candidate for the last election. So we got Pawlenty.
I…
gregladen | May 1, 2009US Supreme Court David Souter will retire at the end of the current court term.
Amerians: THIS is why we needed to elect a Democrat to office.
NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term.
The vacancy will give President Obama his first chance to name a member of the high court and begin to shape its future direction.
NPR
This, of course, makes two things very very important. Listen carefully.
1) Franken has to get to Washington.
2) All other progressive and Democratic Caucus Senators have to be preserved in place and it…
gregladen | April 28, 2009Apparently, this is being seriously considered. By whom you may ask?
Michlele Bachmann! Who else!?!?!?
Bachmann is quoted in the Star Tribune as saying that it is an "interesting coincidence" that the last swine flu outbreak also occurred under a Democratic president.
That, of course, would be Democratic President Gerald Ford. Who was a Republican.
To be fair, Bachmann is saying that she really isn't blaming Obama for the swine flu. She just finds it "very interesting." Just sayin'
I certainly hope that she does not find out that Woodrow Wilson was president at the time of the 1918 flu…
gregladen | April 26, 2009Only 28 percent of Minnesotans think Coleman's current appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court is appropriate. Sixty four percent think he should give up now. Seventy three percent feel that he should not go beyond the State Supreme Court if he loses there. The will of the people has been heard in both the voting booth and the polls.
This will not affect former Senator Norm Coleman's strategies, because the will of the people is of no concern to him. Coleman will continue with the State Supreme Court appeal, and when he loses there (and he will) he will continue on to the US supreme court.…
gregladen | April 24, 2009The first 100 days of totally stupid crap about Obama from the right wing.
gregladen | April 22, 2009Norm Coleman has requested a more "leisurely" (as the Star Tribune calls it) schedule for his recount appeal. What is more leisurely? The Coleman team would like oral arguments to begin no sooner than mid-May, and easily later than that.
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Clearly, the hypothesis that Norm Coleman is simply playing a delaying game stands, still, unrejected.
gregladen | April 20, 2009A joint project by Democrats has flipped traditional fund-raising on its head, by starting a campaign aimed at collecting $1 a day from supporters "to make Norm Coleman go away."
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a new group working to get like-minded candidates elected, has teamed up with Howard Dean's Democracy for America to tap the wallets of Democrats who are disgruntled by the five-month-old ballot contest in Minnesota between Mr. Coleman, the former Republican senator, and Al Franken, the Democrat.
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gregladen | April 18, 2009Eric Black of MinnPost Dot Com has made an interesting observation. Last week the three judge panel charged with hearing Norm Coleman's "Election Contest" (that's a thing ... an election contest is a kind of suit claiming that an election did not go properly) finished their job. They ruled against some of Coleman's claims, but they did count extra ballots as Colman had insisted. That addition of new ballots -- all absentee ballots -- resulted in Franken's lead growing.
From that ruling, the plaintiff has ten days to file an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The appeal itself is a…
gregladen | April 17, 2009"The commies have infiltrated our country as part of their fifty year plan! I know what I'm talking about, I'm in the marketing business! Only the FOX network knows the truth!" ... and so on and so forth.
These are real people. Be afraid. Trust no on. I am not joking even a little. You must listen to the end, or at least, focus on the last 90 seconds or so.