GOP leadership realizes that the Mouth that Roars is better suited for Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly than actual governing. Rep. Bachman will continue to be the voice of misinformation and malicious rumor, and leadership can deny responsibility.

March us on Michelle! Back to the 1890s we go, Karl Rove's beloved Golden Age of American democracy. 120 years later the new robber barons continue to rule.

Dayton is the only one with the nerve to tell the rich that they will have to pay income taxes at a level equal to what they paid in the 1990s, a time when state government provided for our essential community needs (the purpose of government, I believe.)

Sadly, the rich (or their apologists like Sinna) now act as if it's their birthright to exploit the rest of us for fun and profit without the need to pay their fair share, a hang-over from the Ventura-Pawlenty-Bush mentality. It's...

Al Quie, when he was governor in the 1980s, was one of the most conservative leaders we had. This is a testament to how extreme the Minnesota Republican Party gubernatorial candidates have become, as even a true conservative like Quie cannot bring himself to support the endorsed candidate and his one-trick platform of "no new taxes."

Even Quie recognizes that governments exist for the purpose of doing things that are in our common interest, and we need to be responsible and pay for...

I've been at the Ellison campaign headquarters in Minneapolis, and he actually has hundreds of volunteers that show up and make phone calls, go door knocking, and otherwise connect with voters, who have sent him to Congress with substantial majorities in each of the past 2 elections. As a middle-aged white suburbanite, I feel that Congressman Ellison and his inclusive agenda reflects the best in our people, and his other volunteers apparently agree.

As to jobs he has created, though...