Agent Orange Boehner to visit Minnesota

It’s not easy being orange:  John Boehner to stump for Hayfield Republican Randy Demmer

The Boehnertone family:   beachball-wielding tyke Pat Anderson;  mommy dearest Michele Bachmann; papa John “Agent Orange” Boehner; and Randy Demmer as “the Boehver”

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Irony Awareness Initiative

“Irony consists in stating the contrary of what is meant.” — Eric Partridge in Usage and Abusage: A Guide To Good English

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4. (noun) irony a sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words

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Tom Emmer deserves your income more than you do

It’s getting to be old news by this point (altho this story does have legs) so here are just the highlights/lowlights from the past few days:

Emmer: Food Service Workers Make Too Much Money

Tom Emmer, the minimum wage and political patronage

Myth list: Unicorns, Bigfoot, rich waiters

Restaurant owner outs Emmer [...]

El Banco de MNGOP

El Banco de MNGOP    ”In Sutton We Trust”

Phoenix Woman on the never-ending hypocrisy of  Minnesota’s GOP:

Coming this summer:  No Justice? No Tacos II!

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T-paw to corporations: Hey sailor, want a free one?

What T-paw is really saying with that call for a reduction in corporate income tax.

Hey, Sailor, c’mere; you want a free one?

Hey, Sailor, c’mere; you want a free one?  Part II

Hey, Sailor, c’mere; you want a free one?  Part III

Oh, Timmy…   You slut, you!

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Waseca Confidential

photo of Waseca MN by cursedthing

Bluestem Prairie lays out the details of the story so far:

Waseca Confidential part 1: Mike Parry’s deleted emails as metaphor

Waseca Confidential, part 2: Mike Parry’s role on the path to paying a city employee “$51,000 to leave quietly”

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Mike Parry for Tweet Scrub cleanser

Bluestem Prairie:

It takes a worried man: SD 26 GOP Endorsee Mike Parry scrubs potentially offensive twitter posts

MinnIndy:

Senate candidate scrubs racist comments from Twitter

and now from Think Progress:

Minnesota State Senate candidate removes racist comments from his Twitter feed

Hmm.  Guess it’s not quite “that easy” after all.   Wonder if [...]

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