By a vote of 217 to 212, the House approved additional spending for "shovel-ready" construction projects and money to avoid layoffs of teachers, police and other public employees. No Republicans voted for [...]
Over the weekend Redstate's Erick Erickson made an impassioned plea that Republican Senators avail themselves of every parliamentary device at their disposal to obstruct the nationalization of health care. We posted a long response from a GOP Senate source in "How is Obamacare to be stopped?" Today Republican [...]
ATLANTA — In the late 1920s, the Republicans crowed about how their policies had put a “chicken in every pot.”
The White House this week is dispatching Vice President Biden to southern Appalachia - the historic backdrop for economic hardship - to update that slogan to “a broadband [...]
Last week, the Republican Party of Minnesota [...]
Yesterday, Governor Tim Pawlenty made his first trip as a non-surrogate for Sen. John McCain to the first primary state New Hampshire. Check out the full coverage of his trip below:
Pawlenty told a high-powered group of Republican activists that he’s concerned about the national debt and [...]
Yesterday, Pawlenty sets special election date in Senate District 26 for January 26; with a January 12 primary should one be required. For now, no DFL candidate has come forward, but contenders in the Independence and Republican parties are declaring their interest. According to the [...]
“Are you in favor of reinstituting the military draft, as Democrats in Congress have proposed?” That’s one of 15 questions the Republican National Committee uses to drum up funds in a “2010 Obama Agenda Survey” that arrived in Minnesota mailboxes this week. A search of current [...]
Over the weekend Redstate's Erick Erickson made an impassioned plea that Republican Senators avail themselves of every parliamentary device at their disposal to obstruct the nationalization of health care. We posted a long response from a GOP Senate source in "How is Obamacare to be stopped?" [...]
Republicans have forced the Senate clerk to read aloud a 767-page amendment to healthcare reform legislation, paralyzing action on the chamber floor as Democrats approach a Christmas deadline.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) objected to a request to dispense with the reading of the amendment, a courtesy that is almost always [...]
"If you think this movement is more circus sideshow than actual threat, you'd be mistaken. Republican candidates are falling all over each other to get [Sarah] Palin's endorsement, and the tea party movement is responding. Money is pouring in.
"Either we match the passion and activism of these new forces' [...]
"If you think this movement is more circus sideshow than actual threat, you'd be mistaken. Republican candidates are falling all over each other to get [Sarah] Palin's endorsement, and the tea party movement is responding. Money is pouring in.
"Either we match the passion and activism' [...]
Two years ago, Republican Chuck Bradford voluntarily dropped his bid for the Minnesota House 29A seat to support fellow Republican Rep. Randy Demmer.
Bradford has jumped into the race after Demmer announced he was running for the 1st Congressional District seat held [...]
The Democrats are accusing us Republicans of trying to delay and stonewall their government takeover of health care. You know what? They’re finally right.
The question is, will this strategy really win [...]
KELLIHER EMBROILED IN CAMPAIGN FINANCE SCANDAL
Kelliher “Under Fire” Over Effort To Circumvent State Campaign Finance Laws
Star Tribune: Kelliher Is “Under Fire From Democrats And Republicans For A Deal With Her Party That May Trigger A State Campaign Finance Investigation.” “Margaret Anderson Kelliher, speaker of the Minnesota House and a leading [...]
Some leftybloggers famously dubbed themselves the “reality-based community” – a clumsy, junior-high shot at neo-conservative “faith based” ideal.
Apparently the lefties got the idea at a seance from Egyptian political philosopher and lobbyist Ram-Gar:
“Conservatives and Republicans report fewer experiences than liberals or Democrats communicating with the dead, seeing ghosts and [...]
Sen. Al Franken grilled his Republican colleague from South Dakota, Sen. John Thune, over what Franken said were inaccurate statements regarding the health care reform bill currently being debated in the U.S. Senate.
“You know, again, we are entitled to our own opinions; we’re not [...]
Liberal pundits have claimed that 2010 wouldn’t be another 1994 bloodbath because things are different this time. Specifically, they’ve said that one of the reasons why Republicans won 54 seats that election was the extraordinary amount of open seats that fell into the GOP’s hands.
Of course, that’s revisionist history, with [...]
Liberal pundits have claimed that 2010 wouldn't be another 1994 bloodbath because things are different this time. Specifically, they've said that one of the reasons why Republicans won 54 seats that election was the extraordinary amount of open seats that fell into the GOP's hands.
Of course, that's revisionist history, with [...]
MNGOP RELEASE:
St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton issued the following statement this evening regarding shifting accounts of Speaker of House Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s actions directing donors to give to the DFL Party. On Friday, Kelliher claimed she had directed only three donors to give to the DFL [...]
Dick Armey, former congressman and current FreedomWorks chairman, likes him some Tim Pawlenty. In an interview with CBS News’ Declan McCullagh, he cites Minnesota’s governor as a Republican who’s “becoming emergent” as one of the “most effective voice[s]” in the party. “My own view is that [...]
Will Tom Horner be the Independence Party candidate for guv?
By Eric Black | Monday, Dec. 14, 2009
Tom Horner, a lifelong moderate Republican, is thinking about running for governor and, if he did so, it seems most likely he would do so [...]
Will Tom Horner be the Independence Party candidate for guv?
By Eric Black | Monday, Dec. 14, 2009
Tom Horner, a lifelong moderate Republican, is thinking about running for governor and, if he did so, it seems most likely he would do so [...]
Former Anoka lawmaker, state commissioner and Pawlenty chief of staff Charlie Weaver hopes that former U.S. senator Norm Coleman decides to jump into the governor’s race.
“I do,” said Weaver.
“It’s not a bad (current Republican) field, but it’s an unknown field,” he said.
While describing Coleman as a good senator, Weaver said [...]
