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Bridge money in limbo with Republicans' newfound principles on pork

By Andy Birkey , Minnesota Monitor

The budget battle in Congress has left a major portion of the funding for rebuilding the Interstate 35W bridge in limbo. Two of Minnesota’s Republican Congress members, Reps. Michele Bachmann and John Kline, voted against the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill containing the bridge funding, and President Bush has said he will veto it. While Bush and Kline argue that the bill was “fiscally irresponsible,” “pork barrel” and “excessive,” a little background suggests that neither Bush nor Kline cared much about fiscal responsibility until Democrats came to power. MORE »

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Oral Roberts U grad Bachmann says Harvard grad Obama ‘isn’t well-schooled’

By Karl Bremer , Minnesota Independent

Michele Bachmann recently told the Hometown Source, an online extension of ABC Newspapers in the northern suburbs, that Barack Obama “isn’t well-schooled and prepared to be President of the United States.”

That’s an interesting observation, coming from a graduate of a law school that once lost its American Bar Association accreditation. MORE »