Has the near-demise of the John McCain presidential bid ended Tim Pawlenty’s chance of being on the GOP ticket in 2008?
No, says Larry Jacobs, because that chance was always “remote and bordering on delusional.”
This caught me off guard. My buddy Jacobs, director of the Humphrey Institute’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, is […]

Michele Bachmann has a mean streak.
On May 6, 2006, the day she was endorsed by the Sixth District Republican Party for the nomination to become a U.S. Representative, she threatened to retaliate against a woman who had opposed her nomination.
“You will pay, you will pay,” Bachmann said to the woman in front of a dozen […]

David Strom, the affable former president of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota will give a Citizens League “Policy and a Pint” audience this evening (event details here) his thoughts on what makes the price of gasoline go up and down. And those thoughts are these thoughts:
The price of gas would be a lot lower, except […]

Article 2, Sec. 4, of the U.S. Constitution says:
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
About 15 House Democrats, led by Ohioan Dennis Kucinich (who is also a presidential candidate) and including […]

As Congress prepares for a new raft of votes on funding for Iraq, an unnamed White House official tells the Associated Press that President Bush will have to acknowledge shortly that progress in Iraq has failed to meet any of 18 benchmarks that Congress established earlier this year. The administration was always loath to commit […]

A new 30-second TV spot pressuring Sen. Norm Coleman to come out against the continuation of the Iraq war hits Minnesota air today and was released for preview at a 1 p.m. news conference. There’s a link below so you can check it out yourself.
The ad, by Americans United for Change, doesn’t contain any surprising […]