What’s worse: Budget cuts or face-saving spending

A line in this morning’s post from Joe Bodell at the Minnesota Campaign Report struck me. At the end of a write-up about how Gov. Pawlenty’s vetoes of bonding bill line-items really seem to have stuck it to the capital city, Bodell says:
Perhaps it’s simply a matter of geography: since the I-35 bridge collapse happened [...]

Republicans Seize Educable Moment

The Minnesota Republican Party was savvy to immediately launch a television ad blistering the transportation tax increase passed by a bipartisan super-majority in the Legislature.

It’s not a particularly good ad. It looks like a thousand other doomsday political attack ads, and its glum tone is so over-the-top that many will tune out. [...]

More Barriers Crashing Down

The atmosphere over Minnesota’s own Governor Tim Pawlenty becoming Senator John McCain’s running mate is absolutely electric.

And why not? Imagine at long last breaking through America’s highest and hardest glass ceiling by making Pawlenty the first mullted American in the White House!
- Loveland