WCCO says Gov. BridgeFail is not running for re-election. No, no I wouldn’t think so, not after all the ways in which he mucked up Minnesota beyond all recognition. 

Somebody eventually has to raise taxes so as to restore necessary services. If we don’t turn Minnesota around ASAP there will be hell to pay and not just in the form of failed infrastructure.

And I absolutely guarantee he won’t get any traction out of Iowa. Too lefty for Rep. Steve King and the evangelicals, too heartless for the moderates.

UPDATE: Over at Hullabaloo, dday thinks Pawlenty announced early to simplify things when he refuses to certify Al Franken after the Supreme Court hands down the obvious ruling.

Another mistake. Iowans in the northern tier of counties saw all those negative ads and I suspect their opinion of Norm Loserman is even lower than that of Minnesotans.

UPDATE: Great take from CharlieQ.

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More Minncentric news:

Dave Mindeman on the case Norm Loserman allegedly presented to the MN Supremes [Demko summarizes the experts on Loserman's chances]

UpTake video makes Conan O’Brien’s first monologue [if you don't watch you won't get the joke]

Mary Kiffmeyer owned bank cited for unsafe banking practices

Happy birthday to Chuck Olsen who I think just turned 50

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Vick finally posts about Book Expo which was apparently a big disappointment. 

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baloneybkcMemphis Burger King puts its politics on its signboard.

I know I sure as hell wouldn’t eat in any dive where the owner sticks their politics into their customers faces. 

Back when I still ate pizza I stopped going to the closest decent pizza parlor because they proudly displayed a picture of George. W. Bush. No clue if they ever figured out how damaging that was to their business.

My restaurant client’s boneheaded partner stuck a BC04 bumper sticker in their window and I still find nasty comments about it online five years later. 

Food and politics do not mix but why does the right get so jihadi about it? Talk radio, imho. Talk radio isn’t just about news stories, talk radio is the choreographer for countless millions of sad lives, a gospel for them who’d rather hate others than make an effort to educate or in any way improve themselves.

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Things I learned today:

George Tiller specialized in killing handicapped children

I thought I went to college as a fat atheist but some people insist otherwise

Warner refused to pay down debts with high interest rates last year because they were too busy handing out bonuses to execs before the recording industry collapses entirely

A Wasilla pastor (not Palin’s) asks “Will the Antichrist be a homosexual?” (possibly, but my money’s on a Christianist minister)

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