Mumbling Republican Blog

Hearing this morning in the news on MPR that the President will likely accept anything that comes out of the legislature that he can call health care reform brought to mind something that someone once told me, “Salt water or fresh you can tell when shit floats.”  It seems highly likely to me at this [...]

I found it rather interesting that in the same time frame as the military is asking for more resources to conduct the war in Afghanistan we all of a sudden have another terrorist threat materialize on American soil.  Najibullah Zazi his father and some other folks have been singled out as planning to make bombs [...]

A friend sent the following email: A study done by a major university provided the following description of the protocol and results: Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hangs a Banana on a string and a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb [...]

The following information came from a 05/05/09 Washington Post story: “After winning most battles during his first 100 days, President Obama has begun to hit hurdles in Congress over the twin pillars of his domestic agenda, taking flak from his party’s left for not going far enough on health care and seeing his greenhouse gas [...]

There comes a time in the life of a politician when they should have some sort of epiphany as to what they are going to be when they grow up.  There are many choices, puppet, political lackey, crook, or in the rarer case statesman.  Minnesota politics is unwinding as the road to Damascus for Norm [...]

There has been much ado as to if we are indeed in a recession, a depression, what exact state the economy is really in?  Well I think I may have found the definitive white paper confirming that we are indeed in a recession.  Has anyone bought toilet paper recently?  Or is it just my imagination [...]