There are myths, and then there are myths, and this article has some of my arguments...

I will hit on Franken and Coleman later..but for now here is this...

How to lie ( Or run against your record)

Watching this yokel is more annoying than usual lately, for his campaign theme is now " I am Mr. Future". What this really means, of course, is "Please do not look at what I have actually done for the last six years while I sat on Bush's lap wearing a dress whispering in his ear like Marilyn Monroe". What he has done, for six years is screw ordinary people over for access to power and money, and now, when the train he rode is ready to crash, he is trying to jump off. Except he cannot ...

Governor Tim Pawlenty has always portrayed himself as a sort of disciplinary father holding the unruly children of the legislature from overspending their candy money. He has been successful at this for years, and despite the record of what he has actually done, he has gotten away with it, often due to a press that treats politics as a fight between crazy neighbors. Mostly he has screwed over ordinary people to make sure his clients, mostly the wealthy of Minnesota and the crazed ideologues (see this)that populate the Republican party, happy. And now this budget "crisis", shows more of where his and his parties values and empty ideas leave us. In a time where insane numbers of people lack health care, we will instead of attempting to provide the thousands of workers who do not have it access to it, we will raid the fund(here) to solve a budget problem we helped make, and avoid making decisions that might affect my friends in Woodbury(see here). Like most republicans, the Governor does not believe in reality, instead we get faith-based initiatives like the Jobz program, and other such useless give aways, which have never been shown to actually work, but instead turn communities and citizens into a Santa Claus for businesses. Or,gov, your crew allow this theft to go on...That is where a lot our health care dollars go now, but that is not an administrative cost, of course. Unlike the right wing, I believe sickness requires a doctor...and not faith healing.