Minnesota Press having a stroke

[MikeBjerum]

This week I have been on the road a lot and had the chance to listen to a variety of media - mainstream, public radio, Christian, talk and news only.  A big topic has been Minnesota's huge budget deficit.  Gov. Pawlenty has been a topic because during his tenure he has dealt with deficits almost every year.

Amazing how even though nearly everyone has blasted the Gov. over the years for his budget cuts and then blamed him when agencies increase fees and schools and cities raise taxes rather than make the cuts, this year people are actually supporting him ... until they realize what they are saying.  The talking heads and the thinkers are putting everything in perspective and saying "based on what he has been faced with ..." and "nation wide ..." and "federal gov. ..." and "other states ..."

A big topic yesterday was how in difficult times state govs. don't cut back, but Gov. Pawlenty has done his best to make cuts in the state budget.  They would talk about how running up deficits and debt ruins your ability to compete as you come out of difficult times, and that our Gov. is doing his best ... and then the libs realize what they are saying and get quiet.

It is refreshing to see rays of hope ... right up until their thick skulls tell them they are changing sides with their reasoning 

[crusader rabbit]

T-Paw is bright, likeable, and a ray of hope in an otherwise desolate political landscape.  Amazing that he comes from a place that voted against Reagan twice, and spawned both Hubert Humphrey and Al Franken.  Maybe it proves what Ann Coulter has been saying for years:  Libralism is a mental disease.  And maybe T-Paw is the hoped-for cure in Minn.  But, I am afraid he is a solitary voice in the wilderness--at least in that part of the country.

[tt11758]

This week I have been on the road a lot and had the chance to listen to a variety of media - mainstream, public radio, Christian, talk and news only.  A big topic has been Minnesota's huge budget deficit.  Gov. Pawlenty has been a topic because during his tenure he has dealt with deficits almost every year.

Amazing how even though nearly everyone has blasted the Gov. over the years for his budget cuts and then blamed him when agencies increase fees and schools and cities raise taxes rather than make the cuts, this year people are actually supporting him ... until they realize what they are saying.  The talking heads and the thinkers are putting everything in perspective and saying "based on what he has been faced with ..." and "nation wide ..." and "federal gov. ..." and "other states ..."

A big topic yesterday was how in difficult times state govs. don't cut back, but Gov. Pawlenty has done his best to make cuts in the state budget.  They would talk about how running up deficits and debt ruins your ability to compete as you come out of difficult times, and that our Gov. is doing his best ... and then the libs realize what they are saying and get quiet.

It is refreshing to see rays of hope ... right up until their thick skulls tell them they are changing sides with their reasoning  beginning to use reason.

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[twyacht]

I thought for sure it was you m58 that put up the billboard..

Too bad the ray of hope is clouded with Stewart Smalley,,,,er, uh,.....Sen Al Frankenfurter....

Because dog gonnit SOMEBODY liked him enough to elect him.....

[tombogan03884]

I thought for sure it was you m58 that put up the billboard..

Too bad the ray of hope is clouded with Stewart Smalley,,,,er, uh,.....Sen Al Frankenfurter....

Because dog gonnit SOMEBODY liked him enough to elect him.....

To bad he isn't "smart enough, and Good enough" as well        

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