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Dennis Tester

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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Posted on 08/13/11 at 11:39 am in response to Did 'tough guy' tactics against Bachmann hurt Pawlenty more than they helped him?

Yeah, Alec. If Newt was a democrat like Clinton he'd be considered a respected senior statesman in the party and not essentially persona non grata.

Even though Clinton was disbarred, impeached, accused of rape and found guilty of sexual harrassment of a young government employee, he's still the godfather of the democrat party even though everything he gets credit for accomplishing resulted from signing Newt Gingrich's legislation. A total class act.

Posted on 08/11/11 at 12:07 pm in response to GOP candidates may have delicate line to walk to avoid 'going too far' in tonight's Iowa debate

1. Remember Reagan's 11th Commandment.
2. Whoever has the most effective attack on Obama wins the debate.
3. Look for a consensus on restructuring the tax code to make it flatter to increase revenues and reducing the corporate income tax to zilch to attract foreign investment and jobs.
3. Democrats should watch something else. The economics discussion will be over your head and you won't be voting for any of these people anyway so why bother?
4. These people...

Posted on 08/11/11 at 12:29 pm in response to How ready is Rick Perry to run for president?

Write this down: Perry/Rubio

Posted on 08/10/11 at 08:09 am in response to Four senators survive recall, barely keeping GOP control

"The fight today now mainly reflects the same debate Wisconsin voters had just before they booted Democrats from control of the state government."

The democrats' dilemma was that they couldn't win an election with an argument that the public employee unions deserved more power. They had no choice but to change the subject and "republicans cut the budget" wasn't a winning argument.

And weren't these six districts cherry-picked because the democrats figured they had the best...

Posted on 08/08/11 at 08:34 pm in response to Minnesota will apply for a No Child Left Behind waiver

Obama and Dayton know which side their bread is buttered and who butters it. God forbid anyone be held accountable for our failed government schools.

Posted on 08/08/11 at 08:36 pm in response to 'What Happened to Obama?' Provocative NYT essay offers skewed view

"When he wants to be, the president is a brilliant and moving speaker ..."

When his teleprompter is working.

Posted on 08/05/11 at 12:02 pm in response to Short-term FAA deal passes, but parties still differ on policy

The National Mediation Board doesn't have the authority to re-write labor law. That's the role of congress. Requiring only a majority of voting employees to approve a union, and not a majority of all employees, is a violation of federal law.

So if the FAA wants to continue to operate, perhaps they should obey the law.

Posted on 08/05/11 at 12:32 pm in response to McCollum blames stock drop on Tea Party

The last real job Betty had was selling lipstick at the cosmetics counter at Dayton's. I don't think her views on how the economy works should be given any credence.

Posted on 08/05/11 at 12:27 pm in response to Lessons of the debt deal -- politics in the age of American decline

Professor Schultz is wrong on a couple of points.

He's right that the tax code is inefficient and inequitable, but not for the reasons he states. It's inefficient because with the system of differing rates, deductions and exemptions, it doesn't collect the amount of revenue that the effective tax rates should theoretically generate.

It's inequitable because the top 10% of the wage earners pay 70% of the taxes, while 49% of U.S. households paid no federal income tax at all....

Posted on 08/04/11 at 12:45 pm in response to Gov. Dayton's sons open Minneapolis bar/restaurant

If they're successful, maybe they can teach their father something about free market capitalism. He might be willing to listen to his own flesh and blood.