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A Open Letter to the 2nd District Constituents

As we approach April 15th, I'm sure a lot of people will be talking taxes. And of course, our Congressman John Kline will be patting himself on the back as the ultimate friend of the taxpayer.

But consider this.

For all of Kline's crusading against "pork", how much does that save you on your Federal Tax return? That money all goes to Washington, not one dime less because of Kline's "crusade".

And then consider this.

Not only are the Minnesota Super Bowl rings, we all started to get excited about, going to New Orleans, but a good portion of your Federal taxes are fixing levees in the bayou and not roads in Minnesota.

Not only are the former corporate offices of Northwest heading down to Atlanta as they become Delta Airlines, but your Federal taxes are helping Georgia build fire and EMS stations in Lumpkin and Sandy Springs, GA, and not emergency services in Minnesota.

Most Congressional Districts get some of that Federal tax money back in basic infrastructure via requests from local governments. The 2nd District requests fall on deaf and stubborn ears.

For all of Kline's boasting about "Stopping the Pork", it has not saved us one single dime in taxes and worse yet, not a single dime is coming back for needed district projects.
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John Kline has assurances for us about the economy....

"The American economy can recover, but it will be in spite of the Democrats’ big government, special interest policies – not because of them.”

John Kline is confident about the economy. So confident that he considers his do nothing approach another indication of its resilience.

When Kline discusses Democratic policies, he neglects to mention the one Republican contribution that he supported -- the banking bail out.... to make sure Wall Street was taken care of going forward.

Since then, he has ignored pleas for mortgage help. Despises the Jobs Program. He voted against any stimulus. Has refused to pass forward requests from his district for help with infrastructure projects. And he has repeatedly worked against working men and women in their quest for union representation.

Yes, John Kline believes in the ability of the economy to recover. He just doesn't believe in helping people while we wait.

Sure, the economy can work its way through things gradually, over time. While jobs continue to get lost. While credit continues to tighten. While small businesses give up. And while health care costs continue to escalate. Sure, if John Kline had had his way, it could have happened....eventually...at some point....with people in dire economic straits waiting.

But Congressman Kline will only act if there is a real need. Like the needs of the banks. That situation is a cause for action.

On everything else -- John Kline is content to wait.

Because he believes in doing nothing.

Note: Hey, it is John Kline's Monday/Monday.

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You think her speech was worth $100,000?

Sarah Palin, Tea Party Entrepeneur, has discovered a way to get through the recession unscathed. She talks.

Not well at times, but she's good at that platitudey thingey.

I listened to part of her speech on C-SPAN last night. (I couldn't get through all of it, because it sounded too much like the 2008 Republican campaign.)

Sarah tells us the "hopey changey" thing is dead and that the Tea Partiers have founded the new age of politics. They are our future.

Yikes.

I was a little surprised that the hope of Democracy has changed:

"Around the world, people who are seeking freedom from oppressive regimes, wonder if ALASKA is still that beacon of hope for their cause."

Darn. I always thought it was America itself. I'm not sure that Sarah gave Alaska a full shot at being that beacon. She quit in the middle of her term.

(What was really funny about that Alaska line is that she just finished a paragraph that ridiculed Obama for using a teleprompter.)

Still, there is a sobering reality to all of this. Sarah Palin has clearly won these people over. And the Tea Party crowd is going to be a factor for awhile. As long as the economy continues to underperform and stagnate, the Tea Party Nation will get some attention.

When people are hurting and dissatisfied, they will listen to anything. Even if, in the long run, it is flat out wrong.

During our economic turmoil, Palin may have a chance to merge the Tea Party Nation with a disjointed Republican Party that is hungry for a return to power. In ordinary times, these two philosophies might be incompatible. But when they can grab attention by merely being against everything....things that are slow to give us an answer to severe economic doldrums....then the two disparate entities can seek that tentative unity.

Palin may increase her popularity in both of them for awhile. As long as things stay economically bad. As long as negatives are acceptable. As long as obstruction is winning the day. As long as platitudes and ancient GOP tag lines don't have to give us any real results.

Sarah Palin thinks she is carrying the day. Trouble is, she has no plans beyond the day....you know, that futurey thingey.]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:06:00 GMT http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/comments.php?id=2130 ]]> http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/blog.php?id=2130 http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/blog.php?id=2129
One thing that is particularly disturbing about Michele Bachmann (among the thousands of examples) is her immediate supposition that any anecdotal evidence of something she hears, from anyone, anywhere, that she agrees with, is suddenly worth a national dissemination as fact.

Recently at a health care forum, she used one conversation with a person who had some "experience" with Japanese health care, to marginalize the entire country's system.

Apparently they are listening across the Pacific. This appeared in the newspaper the Japanese Times.

Speaking at a health care forum Feb. 1, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, held up Japan's health care system as a cautionary tale for Americans. She claimed to have learned from an American man who had lived in Japan that "in Japan, you have a card all right, but to get health care is almost impossible. You get on a list and wait and wait and wait. . . . There are things that are wrong with Japanese health care, but people [aren't] voicing their opinion, because they know that would get them on a list and they wouldn't get health care. They wouldn't get seen. And so people are afraid to say anything."

I don't have to tell anyone who has any experience with Japan's health care system that the congresswoman's claims are patently absurd. They certainly are contradicted by the end results, as the Japanese enjoy one of the longest life expectancies and lowest infant mortality rates in the world.

What is especially inflammatory is her depiction of the Japanese government as one that would blacklist and withhold treatment from anybody who criticized the health care system. Besides being utterly paranoid, this assertion falsely and unfairly denigrates Japan.

"Patently absurd." "Utterly paranoid."

Gosh...that's amazing insight from someone who lives in Japan. Wish Americans were as intuitive about such things....

Of course, this is just another anecdotal opinion that opposes the anecdotal opinion of what Michele Bachmann claims to have heard from someone who used to live in Japan. (Great sourcing, eh?)

But at least the person giving us the opposing view is a Japanese citizen with a perspective that could actually be valid.

Anyway....the lesson to learn is that when Michele Bachmann uses her "sources" to render an opinion on fact, let's just say that we need to corroborate it a bit.

Just a little....]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:36:20 GMT http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/comments.php?id=2129 ]]> http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/blog.php?id=2129 http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/blog.php?id=2128
A transcript of Tim Pawlenty's radio show in the near future.....

GOVERNOR TIM PAWLENTY: Good morning Minnesota! This is your Governor, your fearless leader, on the air. I've got a lot of things to cover this morning and I told the WCCO station manager that I was going to use 2 hours this morning. I told him if he didn't let me, I'd pull his license.

BRIAN MCCLUNG: Ahhhh, Governor, that is a FED license and you can't do that.

PAWLENTY: Yea, I know that. But he hasn't figured that out yet. Shhhhhh

PAWLENTY: OK, let's get to it. Lots to talk about. Especially about that legislature. You know, Brian, they are actually discussing modifying my unallotment powers? And then there is the bonding bill. A billion dollars? When I specifically told them I wanted 600 or 700 million. Don't they get it yet?

MCCLUNG: Apparently not, Governor.

PAWLENTY: Well, more on that later. First of all, I want to talk about this report that says another 100,000 people are uninsured in Minnesota. You know, Brian....When I go to these $500 a plate fundraisers or discuss things with these fat cat corporate execs, not a single one of them says they lost their health care. Not one.

MCCLUNG: Well, reallly Governor. Most of those meetings happen in Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida......this was a Minnesota report.

PAWLENTY: Well, who put out the report? Was it that BOGUS2020 group?

MCCLUNG: Ahh, no, Governor...by the way it is Minnesota2020...but no, Governor, that report actually came from our State Health Department.

PAWLENTY: Oh, OK,... Let me make a note. Things to Do List: Unallot State Health Department.

PAWLENTY: By the way, Brian, can I unallot this MIDWESTERN2020 group?

MCCLLUNG: No sir, they are privately funded.....and it is Minnesota 2020.

PAWLENTY: Damn!

PAWLENTY: Moving on....let's get back to the bonding bill. What really peeves me about that is that they completely ignored my request for the Moose Lake facility. Remember, Brian, how I made a big deal about those big screen TVs?

MCCLUNG: Yes, Governor.

PAWLENTY: Yea, I got lots of press on that one. Made me look really fiscally responsible. By the way, how did you like your TV?

MCCLUNG: It was great, Governor. Big hit for the Super Bowl.

PAWLENTY: Good Brian, glad you liked it. But getting back to my point. I wanted to get some more money funnelled in there. No telling what else they might buy and then I can swoop in and grab that stuff as well. I really want one of those iPADS.

MCCLUNG: Yea, Governor, I hear they're great.

PAWLENTY: But, we need to get that going. A Presidential candidate needs stuff to grease the skids if you know what I mean.

MCCLUNG: I hear ya, Governor.

PAWLENTY: And so, let's get back to the legislature again. It really ticks me off that they want to mess with my unallotment powers. Just can't have that. It makes me Super Governor you know. Powers that no other Governor can hope to have. They are trying to hit me with Kryptonite, as it were. Trying to take away those super powers. I sent them a letter, you know.

MCCLUNG: Oh-oh. Has it come to that?

PAWLENTY: Yes it has. I used my lucky veto pen to write it. That way they have to pay attention. I told 'em Brian, they are messing with the powers of the universe -- the dark matter that holds it all together. I simply am not going to allow it.

MCCLUNG: But Governor, they are the legislative branch.

PAWLENTY: Haa! Not for long. That's my big announcement today. Today, I am officially stating that I am UNALLOTING THE ENTIRE STATE LEGISLATURE.

MCCLUNG: My gosh, Governor, I didn't think you could do that.

PAWLENTY: You forget, Brian, I am the super-Governor. I can do things that Arnold can only dream of.

MCCLUNG: But Governor, I think that is clearly unconstitutional.

PAWLENTY: That's the beauty of it, Brian. They would have to challenge it in the Supreme Court. But tomorrow, I am unalloting all of the court's funding. They'll have to lock the doors until they can raise enough from bake sales or something to get back into session. Meanwhile, I rule!

MCCLUNG: That all seems a little drastic.

PAWLENTY: I know, Brian. I hated for it to have to come to this. But it is all there fault, you know, they just wouldn't listen. I told them what I wanted and they just wouldn't do things exactly as I intended. It just can't be helped.

MCCLUNG: It's too bad it had to come to this.

PAWLENTY: Yes, Brian, it is. But I must use my super-powers for corporate good and not individual evil.

MCCLUNG: Thank you Governor, you are an inspiration.

PAWLENTY: I know, Brian, I know.

END OF TRANSCRIPT.
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Yes, Mr. President, the Republicans have ideas on health care.

Ideas, eh? OK, let's take a really, really good look at these ideas. Eric Black at Minnpost has an interesting analysis about the Party Of NO and their so-called "ideas".

Eric tries to figure out if there is something, anything, they will say YES to. General conclusion? Nope.

But as to health care, Black points out the possibles....

Repubs are now emphasizing that they have health care ideas, especially three: capping awards on medical malpractice judgments, expanding Medical Savings Accounts, and allowing health insurance companies to sell, unregulated, across state lines.

So, let's look at these revelations....

Tort Reform: Republicans never really give us hard evidence of how this will improve things. They try to dazzle us with logic about "preventive medicine" being reduced. Obama has actually thought about this in his package and even agrees that it might, emphasis on might, reduce cost by about 2%. But without comprehensive reform, that 2% would be swallowed up in the juggernaut of continuing increases.

Let's look at Texas.

Texas implemented that (tort reform) plan in 2003, and since then the percentage of people without insurance has increased, the cost of health insurance has doubled, and the cost of health care (measured by per-patient Medicare reimbursements) has increased at nearly double the national average.

There were a few expected positives...

Texas tort reform did reduce malpractice insurance premiums and attracted subspecialists back into the state. But needless (and expensive) tests continue to increase in spite of that. Tort reform is a Republican favorite but remains unproven.

There's the kicker. Caps on awards won't stop defensive medicine. Republicans always think dollars are everybody's motivation. But it is not just fear of lawsuits that cause extra tests to be authorized. Some of it is just a fear of being wrong...a fear of missing something. Doctors want the best for their patients and if they can eliminate any uncertainty, they will do it.

Medical Savings Accounts. We already have Medical Savings Accounts or Health Savings Accounts. They have been approved since 1996 as the Archer MSA. You pay medical expenses with money that is tax free as long as it is used for health related expenses. They are combined with a high deductible insurance policy or "catastrophic" plan. The theory is that patients will use their tax free money to shop around and lower costs. And if they are hit with an expensive medical condition, the catastrophic plan will kick in.

There was a positive report on MSA's by the Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute last year. Their findings seemed to reflect that MSA's were having the desired effect....

As you may recall, HSAs are tax-deferred savings vehicles for anyone covered under a qualified high-deductible health plan. And it seems when it comes to annual premiums, HSAs increasingly are cheaper: According to the study, an employer-provided HSA plan carried an average annual price tag of $9,666 in 2007. By the following year, the bill dropped to $9,101. Compare that to an HMO policy, which rose in cost, averaging $11,879 in 2007 and $13,122 in 2008.

The catch?

The comparison was on premiums only. MSA's keep costs down by using high deductible insurance plans. Although the maximum deductible is set by law, the additional out of pocket can legally reach $11,600 for families. Of course, most don't use that figure but most average around $6,000 per year.

And although Republicans continue to insist that price shopping in medical care is a must to keep costs down, in reality, it is a pipe dream.

A CNN Money columnist wrote this last year....

You can cut spending in almost every area of your household budget. But as I discovered yesterday during a trip to the opthamologist, health care is one category where prices remain stubbornly sticky. There are no end-of season sales to take advantage; it's tough to research costs in advance; and you're at a disadvantage in deciding which services are critical and which are discretionary. I left the doctor's office owing $400 for the exam, lenses and frames–and I have insurance.

Insurance Purchases Across State Lines. This is the newest Republican "solution" that gets repeated over and over without any details to support it.

First, let's define what this means...

(It means) simply that an insurer could sell their product to any person in any state. Theoretically, this would mean consumers have a much greater range of insurers from which to choose, meaning increased competition and lower premium costs.

But in actuality, of course, it is never that simple:

The fact is, such a change may end up benefiting only those who are young, fit, and healthy – people who are low-risk in the eyes of insurers, and who can have their pick of policies. Anyone who is moderate or high risk will eventually find that getting affordable insurance, or perhaps even any insurance at all, becomes much harder.

and the reason for that is?

The problem is, however, to an insurance company risk is still risk. The perceived risk of an individual who is fifty years old, overweight, and a smoker won’t decrease just because that individual can buy insurance anywhere in the country.

And if an insurance company can offer cheap premiums to entice low-risk people from all over the country, they’re that much less likely to continue offering any type of insurance to higher-risk individuals.

In addition to that, what will the states do with the mandates that have required insurance companies to increase the quality of their care? Minnesota has fought hard to make its coverage to be some of the best in the country. That didn't come out of the goodness of the insurance company heart. It took legislation.

If we can suddenly buy a policy from a Mississippi insurer, it might be cheaper, but what about coverages? Will they be required to meet Minnesota requirements and thus probably have to raise their rates for this state? or can they maintain their own policies and thus spark a race to the bottom on quality of care?

None of this is as simple as our Republican friends would have us believe. It is easy to just be against something when you don't really have to be for anything.

The bits and pieces that the GOP promotes will not lower health care costs at all (in fact, if they were to be implemented alone, health care costs and premiums would rise faster)-- not without being part of a larger comprehensive plan. Obama isn't insisting on this large scale overhaul because he wants to. It is the only real way to reign in costs.

That is, of course, unless you accept single payer as the plan.

But that is a whole other discussion....
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During Pawlenty's ramblings the other day, he said something I'd like to discuss a little furthur. Here's the quote.

Pawlenty, speaking on the eve of the 2010 legislative session, called teachers’ unions one of the most powerful or perhaps the most powerful interest group in Minnesota. “If you’re a Democrat, you don’t cross them,” said Pawlenty. “They’ve got all the Democrats under their thumb — and some Republicans, too,” he said. The unions suffocate just about every education reform, Pawlenty said. It takes just about World War III to get anything done, he said.

I wonder sometimes if Pawlenty's brain really can't see the other side of anything....he's kind of "right" brain locked.

The teacher's union is a pretty powerful organization in many ways, but they have been the only real advocates for education in the past few years. Look at the cuts and payment delays that Pawlenty has continued to heap on a system that continues to borrow money and increase class sizes. Not to mention try to deal with a testing system that borders on insane.

Education Minnesota is not monolithic either. There are dissenters about policy in the ranks. However, I have yet to see a teacher who does not put kids first.... in everything they do.

I found the phrase "takes just about World War III to get anything done," a bit melodramatic. Especially coming from a guy who sold his soul to "no new taxes" just to get his first nomination to the job. And he has been beholden to that particular lobby ever since.

Come to think of it, has Pawlenty ever crossed MCCL? Would he dare stand up to the Chamber of Commerce? (Although there was a brief dance with rationality by the Chamber when they supported the Transportation Bill against the Governor -- but they have since mended all fences). How much influence do Evangelicals have? Or Insurance companies? With all the cuts going on, why haven't ethanol subsidies been looked at? How about the NRA? And would Pawlenty ever consider standing up to giant corporations?... now that the Supreme Court has unleashed their stacks of cash?

Pawlenty's right brain myopic look at policy has gotten this state into a helluva mess. Yet, he still thinks it is all "the other guys fault".

I'm sure its the teacher's union that caused that $1.8 billion unallotment of education funding or that additional borrowing of education funds to keep the state from going to a pawn broker. I am sure that education union is responsible for all the teacher layoffs and program cut backs at the local school districts. And it has to be a certainty that it is all their fault that property taxes have skyrocketed.

Every day I marvel at the logic of Pawlenty. His locked right brain can't seem to find anything to blame on himself.

I guess its easier to govern a state when it will soon be in your rear view mirror.
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The GOP Senate and House caucus are simply determined to make Congress completely dysfunctional.

Examples abound.

Another Filibuster? Senate Republicans Mulling A Filibuster Of Jobs Bill

Senate Democrats want to vote on the first installment of a jobs package as early as Monday, amping up the pressure on Republicans to get aboard. But for the moment, they're not biting.

OK -- Republicans are against jobs. Well, you know, that makes sense because they need the economy to stay bad for next year's election.

Report: Shelby Blocks All Obama Nominations In The Senate Over AL Earmarks

According to the report, Shelby is holding Obama's nominees hostage until a pair of lucrative programs that would send billions in taxpayer dollars to his home state get back on track.

And you thought the Nebraska and Louisiana deals were bad. Does Senator Shelby really think this is OK? Calling John Kline. Anybody seen John Kline? Earmarks on the loose.

And if you thought the Republicans were going to support that populism against the banks?

Boehner acknowledges pressing Wall St. for donations

House Minority Leader John Boehner acknowledged today that he recently pressed the CEO of JPMorgan/Chase to stop donating to Democrats and instead direct campaign donations to the GOP.
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Boehner met with Jamie Dimon at a Capitol Hill restaurant and urged him to help the GOP heading into 2010.

Hey you Wall Street bankers....want to see regulatory reform go up in smoke? Then grease those Republican palms boys. We got a 41% controlling interest in the Senate and we want the House back.

The party of NO -- coming to a voting booth near you.

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You know, he really was worth the wait.

Five sources who were in the room tell POLITICO that Franken criticized Axelrod for the administration’s failure to provide clarity or direction on health care and the other big bills it wants Congress to enact.

Isn't it about time that something got said? The White House has had a huge communication problem. Al has worked in media -- he knows how this stuff is supposed to work.

If everybody is going to tip-toe around, then go ahead Al -- Take Charge!

Franken — a comedian turned liberal talk show host — vowed to keep a relatively low profile when he arrived in the Senate over the summer after a protracted legal battle with former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman. But he has developed a reputation among his colleagues as one of the more aggressive personalities on the Hill.

Al probably DID intend to keep a low profile....but what he didn't expect is for the entire Democratic Senate caucus to try and do the same.

Keep it up Al -- kick some Senate butt.



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Hey, wait a minute. Time out. Throw out the challenge flag. We need to look at the tape.

Governor Pawlenty has absolutely done it again.

Really, if you can't figure out a way to pay for education.... If local government aid is not acceptable.... If health and human services are just out of control spending behemoths..... then why in the world is the Governor bending over backwards to come up with ways to fund the Vikings stadium?

Really. Somebody? Come on?

It seem like only yesterday that I heard Pawlenty say that he would not consider gambling for a new revenue source. Am I wrong here? Did I miss something?

He won't consider new revenue for education. Nothing to help GAMC. Nothing for hospitals, the uninsured, the unemployed. But the Vikings? Oh hell, let's get creative!

"The Vikings are important," he said. "We've got to solve the problem. They're not going to stay in the Metrodome. Pawlenty did not completely sketch out how such a package would work, but laid out a possible path.

The Vikings are important? I am simply incredulous.

I want somebody to compare what Pawlenty is saying to the Vikings with what is happening in the real world. Please examine what is happening at District 196 schools, right now.

The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school district could lose nearly 150 full-time jobs, including 113 teacher positions, to trim more than $15 million from next year's budget.

Maybe they can become ushers at the new stadium?????

The recommended scenario predicts that the Minnesota Department of Education will not repay schools for $1.8 billion in payments delayed in July and that the state will not come up with $500 million, the amount of one-time federal stimulus money from 2009.

It is a wise move to never expect anything from the so-called "budget shift". The money is not there and Pawlenty will veto any new revenue.

Except if you are the Vikings. Then maybe we can come up with a wonderfully creative method of funding a sports team -- for recreation-- to help a billionaire and his millionaire players stay in Minnesota.

Am I the only one who thinks this is nuts?]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:13:01 GMT http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/comments.php?id=2123 ]]> http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/blog.php?id=2123