U.S. Politics

Michele Bachmann explains why all the single ladies should vote for Mitt Romney [VIDEOS]

SEE ALSO: Michele Bachmann says Romney is best presidential candidate because Obama is too wealthy [VIDEO]Ladies, Michele Bachmann wants you to know that you're best off voting for Mitt Romney this November because... he'll make gas cheaper?Strange as that may sound, it's Michele Bachmann's party an ... More >>

MNGOP: 'No state party may be in worse financial shape,' writes Politico

Late last year, the MNGOP announced that it was a whopping $2 million in debt.The party's dire financial predicament led to Tony Sutton's resignation as the chair of the party. Sutton was replaced by Pat Shortridge, but the damage was already done, according to a Politico analysis of the balance she ... More >>

Bachmann may face tough reelection battle

Bachmann: From presidential front-runner to out of Congress in 14 months? It could happen.​Though it won't be for the office she was hoping for, Michele Bachmann may still face a tough election fight this November. Sometime between now and early June, Bachmann must decide whether to seek reelectio ... More >>

Bachmann: God will facilitate victory in Iowa

Polls indicate you are as likely to win tonight's Iowa caucuses as Michele Bachmann​Michele Bachmann believes God will intervene in tonight's Iowa caucuses and propel her to what would be an astonishing victory in her home state.Seriously -- she does.

Michele Bachmann dumbstruck by 8-year-old's comment: 'My mommy's gay, but she doesn't need any fixing'

Screen shot from Youtube.Elijah delivering the message to Michele Bachmann.​Michele Bachmann must be getting sick of kids trying to challenge her political ideology. Last May it was Amy Myers, the high school girl from New Jersey who wanted to debate Bachmann. Now we have Elijah, an 8-year-old ... More >>

Business as usual for state GOP during shutdown, including salaries

Tony Sutton will still get paid during the shutdown.​With Gov. Mark Dayton and a slew of legislators not taking their paychecks during the state government shutdown, City Pages thought it would check up on the state political parties. Eleven of the 14 state senators skipping their salary are Repub ... More >>

Limbaugh defends Bachmann from right wing media attack

Made for each other.​It's one thing for the mainstream media, or an alt weekly like City Pages, to call out Michele Bachmann for hypocrisy and political hackery. But it's another matter entirely when a conservative news website turns on one of its own and does the same thing. That's why we r ... More >>

Katherine Windels ordered to stop threatening Wisconsin Republicans

Katherine Windels got carried away.​There's no doubt that pro- and anti-union forces used almost every trick in the book during the assembly battle over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's bill to strip public employees of their collective bargaining rights. But while there was a lot of shouting, scre ... More >>

Kathy Nickolaus refuses to resign over Wisconsin election screw up

Kathy Nickolaus admits she screwed up, but says she won't resign.​Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus appears to have been exposed as either a ham-fisted political hack, or simply incompetent. Or maybe it's both. But just because she flipped a much-watched Wisconsin Supreme Court election i ... More >>

Pawlenty will run for president or get off the pot in two weeks [UPDATE]

It's make-your-mind-up time.​Tim Pawlenty says he will decide once and for all in the next two or three weeks whether he'll make a 2012 run for the White House. After three epic campaign commercials, a national book tour, frequent-flyer excursions to New Hampshire and Iowa, and incessant sucking ... More >>

Wisconsin senate Democrats getting homesick, Republican says

Sen. Scott Fitzgerald says some of the 14 Democrats want to come home.​As long as 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats stay on the lam, GOP Gov. Scott Walker can't push his controversial union busting bill through the Legislature. So he threatened again today to start laying off 1,500 public sector ... More >>

Tom Emmer concedes governor's race to Mark Dayton [UPDATE]

Tom Emmer says it's time to move on.​Given the steady drip, drip, drip of his failed ballot challenges and dead-end legal maneuvers since Election Day, it almost seems anticlimactic that Republican Tom Emmer has finally concluded that his race for governor is lost. A lot of GOP insiders, and ... More >>

Fair-y Tales

Jeremy Giefer, accused child molester, got Pawlenty pardon to open childcare center

City PagesJeremy Giefer, the sex offender now accused of molesting his daughter, was pardoned by Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.​Jeremy Giefer served time in jail in 1994 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl. But you wouldn't know it to look at the record of the man now charged with sexually mo ... More >>

Did Fox News just call Tim Pawlenty a wimp?

Fox News thinks Tim Pawlenty is small fry.​Fox News news is up with a feature called "12 in 2012," a kind of working list made up of potential Republican challengers to President Barack Obama in the next general election. The good news for Tim Pawlenty is that he made the list. The bad news i ... More >>

Bachmann "put that gavel in John Boehner's hands" [UPDATES]

Bachmann bumps into Boehner.​Forget that, as the libertarian magazine Reason recently put it, Michele Bachmann is a bit of loon. She's also facing an uphill battle for a House leadership position because she wears a skirt. Maybe this is what Republicans mean when they talk about traditional ... More >>

Keith Ellison rolling to re-election

Ellison swept his opponents off the map​With 95 percent of the precincts reporting, looks like Keith Ellison has won a second term to Congress. The numbers came in fast and decisive: Ellison, 68.5 percent, Joel Demos, 23.6 percent.This race had more than its fair share of bigoted overtones. 

Margaret Anderson Kelliher no longer to be unemployed

Nick VlcekMAK attack on the technology industry.​Margaret Anderson Kelliher will not be unemployed come January. The outgoing Minnesota House Speaker landed a job as president of the Minnesota High Tech Association, a non-profit that advocates for the state's technology industry.

Slug endorses Matt Entenza for governor

The Matt Entenza gubernatorial campaign has been full of WTF moments. Remember, this is the guy who picked a FOX 9 news anchor/jewelry entrepreneur to be his running mate. Then there was that false report that the Minnesota faction of the National Organization for Women endorsed Entenza over Marga ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's 'House Call' protest cost you $14K

​You might think that Michele Bachmann's "House Call" rally last November, railing on the health care reform bill, would have been paid for by some independent group angry about the size and scope of the federal government's power, or the way the federal government keeps finding new ways to w ... More >>

Drinking Liberally pairs progressive politics and a social hour

Minnesota's chapter meets weekly and launched in 2004

Bachmann leads in new poll; most say she prefers DC limelight

The District 6 congresswoman is crazy like a fox, but maybe a little too in love with Fox.

Joe Scarborough and Tim Kaine call for Coleman to quit

Norm. You lost. You know you lost. It's getting ridiculous. Exit with... just exit.

Reid: Coleman should concede, Senate ready to seat Franken in April

Reid said the Senate Democratic leaders were ready to seat Franken as soon as April if the contest continues to drag on, but Coleman should be the hero and concede.

Harry Reid: Franken will be certified winner in recount

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Pawlenty on Blagojevich, Franken stealing Senate seat

Gov. Tim Pawlenty made yet another appearance on Fox Ne ... More >>

Blagojevich didn't put Senate seat on eBay, but everyone else did

Recount recap: Coleman down 70; Franken down 27

The second day of the recount is starting today, so here is what you missed yesterday.

Bachmann still hated by everyone except her 6th District voters

NRSC says Franken's campaign trying to steal election

Celeb gossipers love Franken and Coleman

Minn. exit polls: Obama and Franken up (don't trust it)

Another poll shows Coleman ahead of Franken

Former GOP Minn. Gov. Carlson endorses Obama

Coleman's buddy Jeff Larson bought Palin's clothes

Minn. Poll: Obama in the lead, Senate race still a toss up

What does Hillary Clinton have to do to get you to vote for Obama?

Biden: Hardcore Dems say "meh," public gives thumbs up. Meanwhile, everyone hates Pawlenty

Is Minnesota Really a Battleground State?

Everybody hates John McCain

Why is Hillary suddenly so magnanimous? The payoff.

Joe Biden calls bullshit on George Bush

Why it is a terrible time to be a Republican

What would Bush's Jesus do? Endorse Obama, apparently.

What your candidate reveals about your sex life

Reichgott Junge's Republican pals

The CIA leak investigation: Bigger fish, deeper water

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald isn't finished with the Bush White House yet

Mark Kennedy: Will he be nailed by love for the Hammer?

Hot Air

Fred Phelps and federal lawmakers blast homosexuals

Logrolling on Capitol Hill

As evidence of public disgust mounts, Congress and the White House are continuing to stonewall on campaign finance reform