March 23-24, 2010
Mar 23 03:39 Editing Reuters Mar 23 11:02 Too Clever By Half Communications Mar 24 01:57 St. Cloud State CR's Host Why I'm a Conservative Night Mar 24 12:27 Tarryl: "There's More To Do" Mar 24 15:00 Blogger Conference Call Notes Mar 24 18:19 Questions For Tarryl
Prior Years: 2006 2007 2008 2009
Editing Reuters
I'm sure it will shock people to find out that a wire service article needs editing. That's precisely what this article needs. Here's what they wrote about some Republican ad buys:
Vulnerable Democratic U.S. lawmakers who backed President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan are being targeted with freshly cut Republican TV attack ads.It's amazing that people get paid for writing such drivel. "The spots" don't need to "convince voters that the landmark healthcare measure" "is a bad idea." In this situation, the right word is reinforce, not convince. Here's Dictionary.com's definition of convince:
The spots hope to convince voters that the landmark healthcare measure, which narrowly won final congressional approval on Sunday, is a bad idea and that the lawmakers who supported it should be defeated in the November election.
"After all this wheeling and dealing, we still have a cost-raising, tax-increasing bill," an announcer says in one of a number of ads by the House Republican campaign committee set to begin airing this week. "Stop the madness."
to move by argument or evidenceHere's Dictionary.com's definition of reinforce:
To strengthen by adding extra support or materialSince the vast majority of people think that the Democrats' health care legislation is a bad idea, these ads presumably bolster people's thinking. The convincing happened months ago. Support for the Democrats' legislation, or, more accurately, the lack thereof, has been consistently lousy. That's why people have rightly said that they won't tolerate being ignored anymore. That's a big motivation factor behind the TEA Party movement.
We The People repeatedly told the Democrats that we oppose, on substantive grounds, their health care legislation. We oppose the tax hikes included in the Democrats' legislation. We oppose the individual mandates, too. We oppose the government telling us what does or doesn't constitute a legitimate health insurance policy. We've told the Democrats that we're adults perfectly capable of making health care decisions.
The Democrats' response has been predictable: We know better than you. We The People reject the Democrats' elitism. Now all that's left is for people to remind us that we don't support the Democrats' health care legislation. That's what these ad buys supposedly do.
With Obama expected to sign the measure into law on Tuesday, surveys show the public opposes it, by about 50 percent to 40 percent.When people see their state taxes raised to pay for increased enrollment in Medicaid, the people will be furious. Lost in this discussion are the tax increases and unfunded mandates that this legislation imposes both directly and indirectly.
The legislation would expand the government health plan for the poor, impose new taxes on the rich and bar what are seen as insurance industry abuses, such as refusing to cover people with pre-existing medical conditions.
States are already having difficulty balancing their budgets. They certainly didn't need the federal government mandate that they increase their Medicaid expenditures. Rest assured, Republicans will remind voters that they're paying more in taxes for health care.
President Obama and Speaker Pelosi talked about lowering health insurance premiums but that's an illusion. That's only true if you don't add in the tax increases needed to pay for the new bureaucracies.
That's something that Republican ads will remind voters of in 2010 and 2012. I'm betting that Democrats will cringe each time they see that type of ad. That's what I call justice.
Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:51 AM
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Too Clever By Half Communications
After reading this article , I've spent a little time wondering what its purpose is. Here's what PIM is reporting:
Minnesota GOP kingmaker Bill Cooper today endorsed Marty Seifert for governor.This isn't news. Team Seifert announced on Oct. 1, 2009 that Bill Cooper was part of their team. Here's their announcement :
Cooper is a former Minnesota Party chairman. He is chairman and CEO of Minneapolis-based bank TCF Financial Corp.
ST. PAUL - Representative Marty Seifert is proud to announce his campaign "Leadership Team" in advance of this weekends Minnesota GOP convention. This team is made up of supporters of leaders from every corner of the state who are energized by Marty Seifert's message of common-sense conservatism.Did Team Seifert think that people forgot that he'd announced Bill Cooper as a supporter last year? If they did, then they aren't giving GOP activists enough credit. This is what the Lady Logician talked about in this post :
"Over my 30 years of involvement with the Republican Party, I know we're most successful when we stick to our principles," said George Cable. "Marty Seifert never wavers from his convictions and I'm confident he is the strongest candidate to lead the Republican Party of Minnesota forward."
The campaign has been to 104 events since announcing in July and recruited over 1,000 volunteers.
"Marty has a conservative 7-point plan that Republicans will get excited about," said Lisa Weik. "With the political tide turning, this plan will bring new people to the Republican Party next fall."
"I am very proud to have the support of such a diverse group of people," Seifert said. "These people represent a broad cross-section of Minnesota and the Republican Party."
SEIFERT FOR GOVERNOR LEADERSHIP TEAM
George Cable - Former MN GOP Deputy Chairman, Lindstrom
Bill Cooper - Former MN GOP Party Chairman, CEO TCF Financial, Wayzata
John Daley - Second Congressional District Activist, Chaska
Kurt Daudt - Isanti County Commissioner, 8th Congressional District Vice-Chair, Zimmerman
Brent Frazier - Seventh Congressional District Activist, Pelican Rapids
Norma Friedrichs - Third Congressional District activist and SD 33 BPOU Chair, Hamel
Representative Steve Gottwalt - State Representative, Saint Cloud
Harold Hamilton - CEO Micro Control, Coon Rapids
Heidi Huckleberry - Third Congressional District Activist, Brooklyn Center
Jim Knoblach - Former State Representative, Saint Cloud
Rory Koch - Former Fourth Congressional District Chairman, Saint Paul
Darrin Lee - Fifth Congressional District Activist, Bloomington
Ryan Lorsung - Third Congressional District Activist, Brooklyn Park
Rene Ramirez - Fifth Congressional District Activist, Richfield
Michelle Rifenberg - Former State Representative, former GOP Deputy Chair, La Crescent
Judie Rosendahl - Former Seventh Congressional District Vice-Chairman, Madison
Eileen Tompkins - Former State Representative, Rosemount
Lisa Weik - Washington County Commissioner, Woodbury
Jennifer Wilson - Eighth Congressional District Activist, Duluth
Lori Windels - Former Fourth Congressional District Vice-Chair, Saint Paul
Dr. Scott Wright - First Congressional District Activist, Rochester
The sad thing, for many of us, is that the Seifert campaign is running the type of campaign that lost the MNGOP seats in 2002, 2004, 2006 and culminated in 2008 with a comedian becoming the Junior Senator from MN over a sitting senator that, like him or not, had a policy gravitas that neither current Senator will ever HOPE to obtain! Many of us activists have begged and PLEADED with the MNGOP establishment to please, please PLEASE give up their penchant for slash and burn campaigns! Some have learned the lesson....apparently Marty Seifert and his surrogates have not.Instead of laying out a positive vision for Minnesota, Team Seifert opted for gimmicky press releases that don't inform the activists or the general public. That's the type of pre-internet communications that won't work in today's information-starved environment.
If this is the kind of campaign that Rep. Seifert intends to run in the General Election he will lose to whoever the DFL puts up, just as Norm Coleman lost in 2008....just like John McCain lost.
The public doesn't approve of communications that don't inform or, worse yet, that talk down to the people. Team Seifert's re-announcement of Bill Cooper as a supporter should be viewed by the activists as Team Seifert talking down to the activists.
It's time that the Seifert campaign returned to fight on the battlefield of ideas instead of putting out too-clever-by-half press releases. Minnesotans are thirsting for leadership. That isn't the message being conveyed by the Seifert campaign.
Team Emmer has taken a different approach, eschewing gotcha communications and opting for consistently communicating a positive vision for Minnesota. That's what this campaign should be about. It shouldn't be about cute press releases to make it sound like a campaign just got a new shot of energy.
DISCLAIMER: I'm a proud member of Tom Emmer's Steering Committee.
Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:02 AM
Comment 1 by Ryan at 23-Mar-10 02:49 PM
Gary,
Marty Seifert introduced a budget balancing plan last week that is chock full of specifics. I don't think it's fair to attack him considering this. (in full disclosure, I am a Seifert supporter)
RM
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 23-Mar-10 02:56 PM
Ryan, Had Marty stuck with his budget balancing plan & not gotten into this re-announcement, I wouldn't have written about this. What purpose does this re-announcement serve if not to make it sound like a new endorsement?
St. Cloud State CR's Host Why I'm a Conservative Night
Tuesday night, I attended a great event hosted by the SCSU CR's. Featured guest speakers were Steve Gottwalt, Rhonda Sivarajah, Barb Davis-White, King Banaian, Sondra Erickson, Dale Walz and Craig Westover.
The first speaker was Steve Gottwalt. Steve started by explaining why he is a conservative before explaining to the CR's why "younger people" should be, too. Steve emphasized the point that the college students in the Atwood Cascade Room should work on recruiting more students to adopt conservative principles. Steve also said that people of the CR's age group would be hurt by the excessive spending currently happening in St. Paul and DC.
The next speaker was Rhonda Sivarajah, Marty Seifert's pick for his lieutenant governor running mate. Ms. Sivarajah said that she wasn't affiliated with a political party when she started running for an open seat on the Anoka County Commission. She said that the turning point for her came when a strong conservative from the area asked her what she believed in. After some questioning, the gentleman who was asking her the questions said that it was obvious she was a conservative and that she needed to be a Republican.
The most interesting part of Sondra Erickson's presentation focused on how her father taught her about the importance of free markets. She said that her family ran a grainery that competed with a co-op. She said that the family business relied on selling the farmers' grains at top prices, thereby assuring the farmers and the business of a profit. She said that that experience served her well in the legislature. She told the audience that she'd once again gotten endorsed to be the GOP candidate for HD-16A.
King followed Sondra Erickson to the podium. The lesson King taught was illustrated by a pencil. He said that the pencil was a great illustration of an important economic principle because no one person put the pencil together. If I understood the principle behind the illustration, I think what King was teaching was how command and control economies couldn't do the things that free markets could.
Another important lesson taught by the pencil illustration is that free markets allowed people to flow to their areas of expertise, which allowed a group working on a shared goal to accomplish something that a command and control structure couldn't manufacture.
Barb Davis-White's presentation was electric, which is the standard for her. Saying that she's got mad speaking skills is understatement. She talked about how freedom and conservatism can't exist without each other. Barb talked about the importance of understanding and trusting the Founding Documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Federalist papers.
Before Craig Westover's presentation, people in the audience spoke about why they were conservatives. I was the last person in the audience that spoke. I said that I'm a conservative because conservatives are the only people who trusted capitalism. I then said that capitalism is nothing more than betting on human nature. I said that trusting human nature is the best way to get people to make the right decisions.
Finally, Craig Westover spoke about the difference between conservative values and conservative principles. Craig illustrated his point with the Minnesota GOP party platform. He said the standing platform was a great illustration of the party's values.
Craig then made the case that teaching conservative principles was more important than agreeing with the GOP's values because principles will help people think things through before reaching a decision. He said that two conservatives might have different values but that they might make the same decision because they applied the right principles.
Based on comments made aftwards, I'd judge the event to have been viewed as a success. Young collegians were taught great lessons by some of the state's most articulate conservatives. After the event's final speaker, the collegians and guests spoke about everything from economic theory to "Natures' God" to the importance of trusting eternal truths.
Based on what I heard, I'm optimistic that this nation will be well-served by the next generation of conservatives. I'm optimistic, too, that they'll be more disciplined with fiscal matters.
I commend Samantha Walz of the SCSU College Republicans and Jacquie Silseth of the SCSU Young Americans for Liberty for the job they did introducing the speakers and for putting such a great roster of guest speakers.
Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:57 AM
Comment 1 by Walter Scott Hudson at 24-Mar-10 02:23 AM
Sounds like a fun night.
It's interesting that you say your conservatism exhibits a trust in human nature. I think I understand what you mean, that individuals can exceed when given the liberty to act on their own judgment. I agree with that. However, I would say conservatism also exhibits a distrust of human nature. I do not trust any human being, no matter how intelligent or well intended, with unbridled power, because their human nature will tend toward abuse.
Comment 2 by Gary Gross at 24-Mar-10 11:33 AM
Walter, Look more closely. I said that capitalism is betting on human nature. I then said that conservatives are the only people that believe in capitalism.
Comment 3 by chriskmn at 25-Mar-10 09:43 PM
I certainly do commend the young women at SCSU for a fantastic lineup of speakers! It was a truly informative evening with some critically important discussion. I feel sorry for those who missed it!
Response 3.1 by Gary Gross at 25-Mar-10 09:51 PM
Chris, Thanks for your contribution to the discussion, too. The more events like that we can put together, the stronger we'll be as a movement.
Tarryl: "There's More To Do"
Following the signing of the Democrats' health care takeover bill, Tarryl Clark spoke at an SEIU rally on the Capitol steps :
A health care union, SEIU Minnesota State Council, rallied about 200 people to the steps of the Capitol in support of the federal bill. They included state Sen. Tarryl Clark, DFL-St. Cloud, who secured SEIU's endorsement and is seeking the DFL endorsement to run against Republican 6th District U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, an outspoken critic of the bill.Here's my first question: What's a "health care union"? We've all read about the deal that the White House initially struck with the unions that exempted them from a hefty excise tax on the so-called Cadillac plans.
"We have more to do, but it was important to be doing something to be helping families rather than always saying no and standing in the way of help and relief like Congresswoman Bachmann," Clark said.
If the unions all have expensive health care benefits, why should they care what type of health insurance policies other people buy? Why should they tell a small business what type of coverages their health insurance policies must include? Isn't that a significant overreach on their behalf? I'm positive that SEIU would complain if small businesses told them what their health insurance policies should cover.
What I'm most curious about, though, is what Tarryl thinks still needs to be done. Explicit in her statement is that there's more to be done. I'd love to know what's missing from supposedly comprehensive health care reform.
Here's the transcript of Tarryl's speech to the SEIU gathering:
TARRYL: It took your and all your partners' committed effort working long and hard to reach this beginning steps of health care reform and it's a big deal. Now you've heard two incredible stories. What's incredible about them is they're not unusual. But I'm going to tell you one more story because I think health care insurance and health care reform is important to all of us.After listening to that, I have a bunch of questions.
So my short story is about how important health insurance has been for my family is that when I was newly married and when Doug and I were having our first son, we didn't have family insurance. We did not have coverage for maternity care. And what that meant was two young adults, struggling just to pay our bills, we had to figure out to pay for an ob, how we were going to pay for a hospital. We had to prepay for the hospital or else I couldn't even tell you how much it would've cost. And anything that was extra was alot extra.
So health care reform means alot for other people like Doug and me, they're gonna be able to get the affordable coverage they need and they deserve and it's been far too long in coming.
It's important in this legislation that we're seeing the beginning of relief from the incredible burden placed on Minnesota families by skyrocketing health care costs, faced by Valerie and her family and so many other Minnesotans and Americans.
And it's important that we're eliminating those discriminatory insurance practices faced by Emory and her family and so many others. It's important that we're finally closing the Medicare Part D donut hole so that our seniors can finally afford their perscription drugs.
Now we do have more to do. But it was important to be doing something to be helping families rather than always saying no and standing in the way of health care reform like Congresswoman Bachmann.
So I'm here today to thank you and to keep up the good fight and we're going to keep up the good fight in the Senate and I am proud and honored to be standing with you and for you. Thank you so much.
Based on President Obama's statements in his interview with Bret Baier, part of the $500,000,000,000 in Medicare cuts will be used to pay for closing the Medicare Part D donut hole. Tarryl, how can the money being cut from Medicare be used both to extend the solvency of Medicare AND be used to close the Medicare Part D donut hole? After all, those benefits come from seperate trust funds.
It's interesting to hear Tarryl say that her and her husband had to prepay the hospital when she was pregnant with their first son. She then says that, if they hadn't prepaid she "couldn't even tell you how much it would've cost." Implicit in that statement is that it cost less to prepay for the hospital stay.
In fact, we know that hospitals give substantial discounts to people who pay with cash because the hospital knows that they won't have to deal with a government bureaucrat or a health insurance company. In fact, that's the premise behind HSAs. (Isn't it interesting that Tarryl didn't mention that HSAs aren't a qualified health insurance policy under the law that President Obama signed yesterday?)
Again, I'll simply ask Tarryl what other things need to be done for this health care legislation to be complete. Does she think that we need to eventually go to a single-payer system. I'd also ask Tarryl if she thought that the Democrats' health care legislation truly reduces health care costs. How can health care costs drop without a change in people's behavior?
I'd submit that the Democrats' health care legislation doesn't cut health care costs, that it only hides increasing health care costs with taxpayer-funded subsidies.
That isn't reform. That's bait and switch. The bait is lower insurance premiums. The switch is higher taxes for individuals and small businesses, which likely will result in higher unemployment and lower wages for workers.
Finally, I'd like to return to the question of what a "health care union" is. Why does the SEIU think it's important to meddle in other people's health care decisions? Hundreds of thousands of people have HSAs, which are portable and which help them reduce their health care costs. The SEIU supported legislation that will essentially end HSAs.
Apparently, SEIU, like Tarryl, doesn't think that it's a big deal to meddle in other people's health care decisionmaking. This is a deeply personal decision, one which outsiders, especially government, should intrude into.
It speaks volumes of SEIU and Tarryl that they support legislation that was passed after the ignored the American people repeatedly and passionately told their senators and representatives they didn't want this legislation.
This November, the voters of MN-6 will tell Tarryl what they think of the Democrats' unwanted meddling.
Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:27 PM
Comment 1 by Walter Scott Hudson at 25-Mar-10 03:51 AM
Tarryl's whining about having to pay for maternity care is no less ridiculous than if I whined about having to pay for food, or rent, or a car payment. That's what happens when you get pregnant, kiddo! It's been happening since time immemorial, doesn't make you special, and certainly doesn't make you a victim.
Comment 2 by eric z at 25-Mar-10 07:57 AM
I certainly wish Clark thought we ultimately need to go to single payer. My concern is she has not said that.
We know Bachmann's plan is pray to not get sick, and at least back when she first ran for Congress she and Marcus put that into direct practice to have more for themselves. They provided no health coverage for the Christian counselors at the family clinic.
Now she and Marcus have a home costing over a million.
That means there was the wherewithal to have covered the clinic, just not the willingness.
That's reprehensible. I hope those poor workers are covered now. It shows a less than desirable human degree of compassion. I think she cares more about hypothetical embryo life than real live persons with needs whose work is enriching her and her family. It sucks.
Blogger Conference Call Notes
I just finished a blogger conference call with Sen. John Thune, (R-SD), on the Democrats' health care legislation that is now signed law. One of the things that I asked Sen. Thune was about how the legislation raids the Medicare Trust Fund to pay for closing the so-called Donut Hole in Medicare Part D.
I asked whether Republicans would highlight this during the campaign by saying that stealing money from the Medicare Trust Fund will lead to the government's inability to keep the promises it's now making.
Sen. Thune said that it's important to emphasize the fact that you can't use the same money twice. Once you establish that in people's minds, Sen. Thune implied, you can make a number of different arguments, which I agree with.
My followup question was whether Republicans would make the argument that, because Democrats are shifting money from Medicare Trust Fund, Democrats simply can't deliver on the promises that they're making to the American people.
Sen. Thune noted that people don't trust big government and that the Democrats' health care legislation certainly represents big government in the minds of voters. He said that that's certainly an argument they'll make this campaign.
Sen. Thune wasn't optimistic that they could change the reconciliation bill but he was optimistic about how this would play in this year's campaign. He said that he's confident that the American people won't like the Democrats' takeover of the health care system. Sen. Thune said that part of the Republicans' strategy to repeal the bill was to make their case to the American people.
Sen. Thune emphasized the need to stay focused on the provisions in this bill that negatively affect families and small businesses. He said that peripheral issues needed to stay on the periphery, that the Democrats' goal is to distract people's attention away from the parts of the bill that aren't popular.
I told Sen. Thune that that's why I think it's important to emphasize, without getting deep in the proverbial weeds, the fact that Democrats can't keep the promises they've made. If people see why the Democrats' promises can't be kept, all of the Democrats' arguments vanish into thin air.
This fight is still in the beginning stages but Republicans have a distinct advantage if they use it properly. That advantage is that only a third of the nation likes the Democrats' health care bill. According to Frank Luntz, another third don't like it with independents being the swing voters that will decide the matter.
According to Dr. Luntz, standing against the Democrats' health care legislation is important but that it's equally important to talk about the Republicans' positive health care ideas. Frankly, repeal and replace is the way to go. The axiom that you can't beat something with nothing is important to remember in this fight.
Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2010 3:05 PM
Comment 1 by eric z at 25-Mar-10 08:09 AM
What you are saying, Gary, stripped to essentials, is the guy cared less about the substance of things than how it could play out in his and your hope of getting a bigger GOP nosecount. Isn't that an unsound structuring of priorities?
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 25-Mar-10 08:27 AM
That isn't what I'm saying at all. First, Sen. Thune talked about the awful provisions in the bill, starting with the individual & employer mandates but also including the many tax increases in the bill.
My question was simply a suggestion that the best way to defeat the Democrats that ignored the Constitution & the American people is to tell the American people that Democrats can't keep the promises they made in this bill.
If you choose to ignore the substance of the bill, that's your decision. Just because you choose to ignore the thngis I've just highlighted doesn't mean they aren't true, though.
The Democrats want everyone to believe that this is great legislation. It isn't, which is why it will be repealed.
Questions For Tarryl
Earlier today, I posted about Tarryl's speech to the SEIU , which the PiPress described as a "health care union." Now I have some questions that I think are important for Tarryl to answer considering the fact that she's running for U.S. House of Representatives.
First, would Tarryl repeal the huge unfunded mandate created by Medicaid's expansion? With Minnesota's budget already running a deficit, it's important that we not get hit with another huge entitlement burden. Medicaid would cause the deficit to explode.
Second, would Tarryl vote to repeal the so-called Vanity Tax on tanning salons ?
Third, would Tarryl vote to eliminate the individual and employer mandates? Or does she think that the government knows better what families and businesses need?
Fourth, would Tarryl vote to strip the HHS secretary of the authority to determine which coverages will be required for an insurance policy to be a qualified health insurance policy? If not, why not?
The Medicaid expansion hasn't been highlighted enough. Here's what Bloomberg says about Medicaid expansion:
President Barack Obama faces a fight over the health-care overhaul from states that sued today because the legislation's expansion of Medicaid imposes a fiscal strain on their cash-strapped budgets.Even in the best of times, expanding Medicaid by an estimated 15,000,000 people would cripple state budgets. (Obviously, these aren't the best of times economically.) The burden that the Democrats' health care legislation just put on the states will srip them of their budget flexibility. Additionally, the Democrats' health care legislation will tell states what they must do, even if the federal program is expensive, ineffective and inefficient.
Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania are among 14 states that filed suit after the president signed the bill over the constitutionality of the burden imposed by the legislation. The health-care overhaul will make as many as 15 million more Americans eligible for Medicaid nationwide starting in 2014 and will cost the states billions to administer.
States faced with unprecedented declines in tax collections are cutting benefits and payments to hospitals and doctors in Medicaid, the health program for the poor paid jointly by state and U.S. governments. The costs to hire staff and plan for the average 25 percent increase in Medicaid rolls may swamp budgets, said Toby Douglas, who manages the Medicaid program for California, which hasn't joined the lawsuits.
"The states are coming through the worst fiscal period in the history of record keeping," said Vernon Smith, a former Medicaid director for Michigan and now a principal at the research and consulting firm Health Management Associates in Lansing, Michigan. "Medicaid is the most significant, most visible and most costly part of this expansion and states fully expect to see increases in their spending."
Tarryl says that the Democrats' health care legislation is a good first step but that there's still work to be done. Doesn't Tarryl understand that the federal government has already done too much? Apparently not. Apparently, she's a true believer.
There's no question that that won't play well in Minnesota's Sixth District.
Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2010 6:19 PM
Comment 1 by eric z at 25-Mar-10 08:06 AM
My hope is that she would concentrate on costs of the wars and on shrinking the military, particularly the brass heavy end of it and not the grunts. The grunts do the work, the brass wears the stars on the shoulders and the ribbons on the chest, but draws a disproportionate amount of money that could go to entitlements and improving the general well being of America, at home.
Response 1.1 by Gary Gross at 25-Mar-10 08:30 AM
That's right, Eric. Tarryl should forget about implementing solid economic policy & focus on cutting the military in a time of war. BRILLIANT!!!
It's not like the American people care about the government getting out of the way so the economy can create jobs. Except that that's exactly what they want.
The good news is that Tarryl won't be in elected office so she can't impose her ideas on Minnesotans or anyone else.
