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Tom Christensen

New Hope, MN
Commenter for
2 years 13 weeks

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Posted on 12/11/12 at 04:25 pm in response to Minnesota leaders off to a rocky start at legislative ‘preview’

Message from the voters: The Republican's don't have the correct message nor the correct messenger. Their message is still the same message George W. Bush used to drive the country into a financial canyon. All Pawlenty did was kick the can down the road in an effort to make himself look presidential. Voters told him he didn't have the correct message and he was not the correct messenger. It is going to be a long Republican dry spell unless they figure out how to put the word "COMPROMISE...

Posted on 11/26/12 at 10:42 pm in response to Cantor: Put health care law, device tax on fiscal cliff negotiating table

Cantor has already been soundly defeated on the elimination of Obamacare. The Republicans dug their own hole in the last election with their zealot positions on a lot of issues and they were soundly defeated. Now Cantor wants to keep digging and disregard what the voters told the Republican Party loud and clear on election night. That is two elections in a row the Republicans have been soundly beaten. How many more elections are they willing to go before they make meaningful changes to...

Posted on 11/19/12 at 04:16 pm in response to Post-election Republican agonizing on ‘Meet the Press’

Badly beaten in the last election means Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Mitch McConnell, Grover Norgquist, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and their likes need a new story line as their last story line has fallen on its own sword. It has never been this quiet on the Republican side. Now they are tring to figure out who they are, where are they going and who is their leader. They are leaderless, out wandering in the political wastelands, dazed with mis-belief that they lost. The tea party took...

Posted on 11/15/12 at 08:43 am in response to DFL leaders 'vague' on what to do with Brodkorb lawsuit

The Bordkorb case is as close to certainty as you can get that it will spill over into the DFL majorities lap. It is the GOPs way to just kick the can down the road. In the tradition of Tim Pawlenty's 6 Billion dollar deficit gift he left upon his departure. No way, no how should the Brodkorb case been funded by anybody but Brodkorb. The self imposed title of Fiscal Conservative has no meaning as proven daily by the Republican's. It is okay to spend money as long as it is not the GOP's...

Posted on 11/15/12 at 09:55 am in response to Minnesota sets a northern record for going blue 10 times in a row

All the red offered was a guy who offered "elect me and then I will tell you what I'll do" and platitudes from the rest of the red candidates. The voters made the right choice except in the Bachmann case. I must say Graves got close enough to Bachmann to scare her enough to keep her quiet at least for a few weeks. The reds were only against everything and offered no alternatives. You can't have a war on women, tick off the Hispanics, offer only irrational fact-less ideas that would only...

Posted on 11/12/12 at 07:47 pm in response to While GOP leaders defend amendments, some losing candidates disagree

The Republican's lost the elections locally and nation wide in just about every category you can mention. They however are demonstrating why they are bound to keep on losing. They are still defending their losing positions after election night routs. What they think doesn't matter. All that matters is what the voters think and the voters have spoken very loudly and very clearly. They don't want any of the Republican messengers or any of their messages. Republican's, it is time to...

Posted on 11/12/12 at 12:03 pm in response to GOP blaming big union money, false advertising for losses

The Republicans have forever had the inability to look inward for their problems. Things like the message and the messenger. It is always somebody else who is the cause of their problems. I recommend they stay on their current path and see how long it takes before the voters replace them with people who are willing to work for the good of all Minnesotan's. You can't legislate just for the special few, based on false pretenses, and expect to win. I'm stunned at how out of touch the...

Posted on 11/12/12 at 01:03 pm in response to GOP blaming big union money, false advertising for losses

In the beginning the Republican leadership couldn't figure out if they should cozy up to the tea party or not. They now have their unequivocal answered, a resounding NO. The tea party has taken the Republican Party right to its knees with the likes of Bachmann, West, Wilson, and add your own list. The tea party is nothing more than the extreme radical fringe of the Republican Party. The Fox News story line has been decimated. The Republican base is out wandering in the vast political...

Posted on 11/09/12 at 05:34 pm in response to Tim Pawlenty talks about GOP woes and fiscal cliff in separate interviews

Absolutely amazing hindsight. Too bad he didn't have the foresight to tell his party before the election they needed to focus on Latinos, women, and laborers. I guess they were too busy saying there wasn't a war on women, ignoring immigration reform because the Latino's could self deport, and union busting would get them a lot of votes from the laborers. Pawlenty is definitely in the right party, he fits right in with the rest of the losers. T-Paw is absolutely Paw-Thetic.

Posted on 11/06/12 at 09:01 am in response to With so many fact-checkers, why are politicians lying more and more?

We have television networks that lie daily to boost their ratings, and there is no penalty. We have politicians lying everyday to make them seem far more relevant then they deserve to be, and there is no penalty. Bankers purposely sold products they knew could not be managed by the buyer, and there was no penalty. Lawmakers make laws and frequently get caught trying to circumvent those same laws, and there is no penalty. Romney says Jeep will be sent to China, the Jeep CEO denies it,...