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 [...]
Minnesota's Governor Tim Pawlenty was in New Hampshire yesterday. He gave a long interview to the Manchester Union Leader:
"President Obama was here in New Hampshire on New Hampshire primary night and said he was going to fix health care by bringing Republicans and Democrats together," he said. "Well, here" [...]
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 [...]
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 Oklahoma's [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
In Washington, it's being rumored that there is no health care "reform" bill for which Harry Reid can get 60 votes. Meanwhile, in Nevada, Reid is trailing every Republican challenger by an almost identical margin. The Democrats are dying on this issue: the current Rasmussen survey shows opponents of [...]
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 [...]
Bluestem Prairie is reporting that State Rep. Patti Fritz is not running as the DFL candidate for Senate. I am still hearing rumors from that area that State Rep. Kory Kath is considering a run. I should have more information on that tonight.
There are also a few Republicans [...]
Byron York notes a Pew survey on Americans' spirituality that has some entertaining findings:
Conservatives and Republicans report fewer experiences than liberals or Democrats communicating with the dead, seeing ghosts and consulting fortunetellers or psychics.
Specifically, Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to say that they've seen a ghost and [...]
Over at Redstate, Erick Erickson makes an impassioned plea for Republican Senators to stop Obamacare in its tracks. Erickson essentially argues that unused parliamentary devices could and should be used by Republicans to oppose Obamacare in the Senate.
It's a terrific post and I couldn't agree more with' [...]
The Democrats want to raise the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, but don't want to make their members cast a publicly visible vote. So what do they do? They use their current favorite trick--attach the debt ceiling to the bill that funds America's military. Who could vote against that?
Republican Congressman' [...]
Here is the press release and complaint filed by the Republican Party of Minnesota against Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL Candidate for Governor:
St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb today filed a formal complaint with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board regarding [...]
Minn. GOP to seek probe of Kelliher’s use of donations
By Rachel Stassen-Berger
The Minnesota Republican Party will file a formal complaint with the state campaign finance board against House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, asking the board to investigate Kelliher’s use of coordinated donations to purchase a DFL party database.
Kelliher, who [...]
Who: Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb
What: Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb will discuss the campaign finance scandal involving DFL gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher
Where: Room 181 of the Minnesota State Office Building, St. Paul
When: 11:30 AM [...]
Brodkorb’s recipe: thick skin and a sharp tongue
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: December 9,2009
Time posted: 4:50 pm
Senate Republicans’ comm director remains a polarizing figure
The only people who don’t have an opinion about Michael Brodkorb are those who have never met him.
The man who serves as communication [...]
The Democrats' effort to brand the Republicans as the "Party of No" has failed, but many conservatives have recommended that Republicans adopt the slogan for themselves. I would amend that advice by suggesting that Republicans complete the sentence: we are the Party of No More Stupid, Wasteful Government Programs that' [...]
With Senator Dick Day’s retirement yesterday a seat will be open for special election in the next few months in the Owatonna area. The seat has been in Republican hands for years.
Any thoughts on this race? Any candidates thinking of running? I am hearing a few names, but nothing [...]
Those who live in glass houses, etc., etc.
Majority Leader Harry Reid tarred opponents of his health care bill yesterday as the equivalent of those who opposed equal rights for women and civil rights for blacks.
In a remarkable statement on the Senate floor, Mr. Reid lambasted Republicans for wanting to [...]
From the House Caucus website:
ST. PAUL, December 8, 2009 – House Republican Minority Leader Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, and 20 other House Republicans today sent a letter to US Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken expressing the members’ opposition to the cap-and-trade bills making their way through Washington.
Excerpts:
Our agriculture [...]
St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton today issued the following statement regarding the gubernatorial candidacy of R.T. Rybak.
“R.T. Rybak puts the ‘R.T.’ in raise taxes. Whether he’s backing tax increases on property, gasoline or sales, Rybak is an extreme liberal [...]
St. Paul- At a Capitol rally today, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Senator Amy Koch, Representative Paul Kohls, Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton, Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb and energized grassroots activists rallied [...]
Harry Reid drew some of the most over-the-top analogies in Senate history today, as he claimed that Republicans who oppose the Democrats' government medicine proposals are like those (Democrats, although Reid didn't mention the fact) who stuck up for slavery. Also, they are like those who opposed women's suffrage and' [...]
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