Mike McIntee is very busy today, working on a special project, so he asked yours truly, the ol’ TwoPutter, to take over hosting duty today at 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm on AM-950 radio’s “Quick On The UpTake” show.
I’ll be joined in-studio by Coleen Rowley, and we’ll be talking about health care, torture, and we’ll finish with a tribute to Ted Kennedy. So dial your radio to 950 on the AM bandwidth, or link here to listen on your computer.
And we’re happy to take your phone calls – especially during the Ted Kennedy segment, where you can offer your own tribute to America’s “Liberal Lion.”
The Call-In Line is (952) 946-6205; and again, to listen live on your computer, link here.
(crossposted from MnProgresiveProject)
OK, I got my foursome together, and we’re teein’ it up at the DFL SD 42&43′s “Divots For Democrats” event in two weeks, on Saturday August 8th.
And you can, too!
Registration info is here: Divots For Democrats
Again, registration info is here: Divots For Democrats
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
Yes indeed, it’s summer, which means: it’s fundraising time again! I’m happy to report that the DFL SD42 and SD43 combine for their golf outing on August 8th – 9 holes with dinner to follow. I don’t play a lot, what with all my ailments, yada yada yada, but: I’m playing in this one. And, I’m looking for 3 Regular Readers of MnProgressiveProject to play with. Here’s the deal: I’ve never had a bad round of golf. I’ve had some really (bad) scores; but: NEVER a bad round. Play with me, and you’ll have fun. Probably won’t win, but: you’ll have fun! Plus, you’ll be helping the DFL’s SD42, home district of State Rep Maria Ruud! So, watch the following YouTube, and then decide if you want to tee it up with the ol’ TwoPutter or without the ol’ TwoPutter….and that miss? That was my FIRST putt; I sunk the second…..
(registration info, here: Divots For Democrats)
(crossposted from MnProgresiveProject)
…today’s GreedOverPrinciples party.
It’s been a tough day for the GOPers. Fortunately for Kurt Zellers, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford – who turned down Federal Stimulus – got caught gettin’ some international stimulus:
Chris Cillizza
washingtonpost.com Political Blogger
Wednesday, June 24, 2009; 3:30 PMGov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) admitted in a press conference in Washington today that he had an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina and that he will resign his position as president of the Republican Governors Assocation. (Washington Post)
Yep – a “Family Values” republiCon, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, wasn’t “hiking the Appalachian Trail” as aides first claimed; he was down in Argentina – “catching up on foreign affairs”.
Which is good for Zellers; that diverts attention away from his history of campaign finance screwups. Well, and the video Dusty Trice found and posted today – the video of Zeller trashing former Governor Arne Carlson just last May. Let’s look!
That’s Kurt Zellers, trashing former two-term Governor Arne Carlson. Way to make the small tent smaller, Kurt!
And speakin’ o’ the Small Tent Party, Lieutenant Colonel Joe Repya split ranks from the likes of Zellers, Sutton, Brodkorb, et al. In today’s Pioneer Press, Colonel Repya explains why:
“Over the years I have raised tens of thousands of dollars for GOP coffers, donated many thousands of dollars to local and national GOP candidates, worked many hours at the grass-roots level and been asked repeatedly to run for state or federal office by Minnesota GOP officeholders. So why on Earth have I decided to leave the Minnesota GOP?
Simple: When a political party becomes so dysfunctional that it no longer can operate without tyrannical domination over the grass-roots, it is time to stop enabling bad behavior from that party. I have come to the conclusion that a majority of Minnesotans and many Republicans no longer trust the message of the Minnesota GOP.
After years of ineffective party leadership resulting in a record number of defeats, lack of transparency in party dealings, alleged financial impropriety by former party employees, and numerous Federal Election Commission problems, can you really blame the electorate for abandoning the Minnesota GOP?”
OK, now I’ll surmise that the “…alleged financial impropriety by former party employees,…” has something to do with this:
Read the “confidential memo” from the Minnesota Republican Party that is the basis of CREW’s FEC complaint
(Submitted by crew on 16 July 2007 – 1:26pm. FEC Minnesota Republican Party)
CREW filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint today against the Republican Party of Minnesota and its former treasurer, Marina Taubenberger, alleging multiple egregious violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) and FEC regulations. The complaint is based primarily upon a February 15, 2007 confidential memorandum from former Republican Party of Minnesota finance director Dwight Tostenson to the Party’s Executive Committee. You really have to read that memo. Here it is:
OK, so what happened when Colonel Repya tried to ask about the alleged financial impropriety” at the state convention? Let’s watch!!!
Way to go, Tony Sutton, a/k/a “Mr. Lost Credibility”!!! Oh, and in the comments section, of the PiPress? A guy by the name of Nathan Hansen has this to say:
I am Deputy Chair of the Fourth Congressional District and one of the newer anti-war Republican activists. It’s difficult for words to describe how happy I am that you are leaving our Party. The roots of your “neconservative” philosophy lie in Straussian Trotzkyite Communism. “Corporate money” influencing our Party? Nothing compared to the damage your military industrial complex (that Eisenhower warned us about) has wreaked on our Party and our Country.
I hope you will find a happy home among your fellow communists. Your days of endless illegal wars and military industrial complex domination of our party are over.
Obama is ramping up his War in Afghanistan and continues to illegally bomb Pakistan. Perhaps you can join him to satiate your bloodlust. (emphasis added)
ROFLMAO!!! The Deputy Chair of the GOP’s CD-4 not only told Colonel Repya “don’t let the door smack ya on yer arse” — he called Joe a “commie”, too!!!
Ya really gotta admire how those in current GOPer party leadership positions honor the troops, doncha??!?
Ever hear that those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it? Well, an astute Regular Reader (thanks, Ricardo!) sent me a link demonstrating how today’s GreedOverPrinciples party’s leaders are doing just that, in an e-mail entitled “The Current State of the GOP Party”! Let’s watch!!!
Oh, and think today was bad for the local GOPers? Watch what happens if ol’ Smokescreen gets his walking papers tomorrow!
Stay tuned!!!
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
Yes indeed, it’s summer, which means: it’s fundraising time again! I’m happy to report that the DFL SD42 has their golf outing on August 8th – 9 holes with dinner to follow. I don’t play a lot, what with all my ailments, yada yada yada, but: I’m playing in this one. And, I’m looking for 3 Regular Readers of MnProgressiveProject to play with. Here’s the deal: I’ve never had a bad round of golf. I’ve had some really (bad) scores; but: NEVER a bad round. Play with me, and you’ll have fun. Probably won’t win, but: you’ll have fun! Plus, you’ll be helping the DFL’s SD42, home district of State Rep Maria Ruud! So, watch the following YouTube, and then decide if you want to tee it up with the ol’ TwoPutter or without the ol’ TwoPutter….and that miss? That was my FIRST putt; I sunk the second…..
(registration info, here: Divots For Democrats)
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
Those aren’t my words; that’s what Attorney General Michael Mukasey called the behavior of Boy Blunder’s inJustice Department. And he called the behavior disturbing at a speech before the American Bar Association. Here’s the money quote:
The conduct described in those reports is disturbing. The mission of the Justice Department is the evenhanded application of the Constitution and the laws enacted under it. That mission has to start with the evenhanded application of the laws within our own Department. Some people at the Department deviated from that strict standard, and the institution failed to stop them.
I want to stress that last point because there is no denying it: the system failed. The active wrong-doing detailed in the two joint reports was not systemic in that only a few people were directly implicated in it. But the failure was systemic in that the system – the institution – failed to check the behavior of those who did wrong. There was a failure of supervision by senior officials in the Department. And there was a failure on the part of some employees to cry foul when they were aware, or should have been aware, of problems. (emphasis added) ( US Dep’t of Justice)
Two points, from the ol’ TwoPutter:
- It’s a good thing the AG is recognizing the problem, but:
- He’s BLAMING THE EMPLOYEES??!?
Say, Mukasey? Remember a girl named Valerie? Valerie Plame? What did this misAdministration do, when hubby stood tall and told the truth??!?
The Plunderers in the misAdministration put people’s lives at risk ’cause hubby blew the whistle – what makes anyone think that career Justice Dep’t employees didn’t take note, and wonder what THEIR fate might be?
Sorry – the ol’ TwoPutter ain’t buyin’ this Thema Culpa by Gonzo’s stand-in.
Ladies and Gentlemen, you shouldn’t either. If Mukasey was serious about career employees standin’ up, he’d have announced a program to cover their back when they did. He didn’t; he isn’t.
And since he’s sandbaggin’ the problems his boss, Boy Blunder, created – what else is he sandbaggin’?
Oh – and a H/T to Tony Mauro at LegalTimes for bringin’ this latest pile of horse(apples) from the misAdministration of Bush The Lesser to my attention.
(originally published at MnBlue.com)
