Donkephant

There’s been an amazing amount of focus on the race to fill Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S. Senate. As I type this, the polls are open and everyone is reporting a large turnout of voters.
Part of the reason for both of those things is what hangs in the balance. [...]

Long time North Dakota U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan announced that he would not be running for re-election in the coming 2010 elections. Despite his claims that he isn’t running because of threats of ND Governor John Hoeven running against him or a threat of losing his position, I don’t think there’s much doubt in [...]

I’ve seen a few articles (I’ve lost the reference but if you find it let me know) where U.S. Senators and Congressmen have been quoted as saying that they aren’t there to do what is best for their state, but to do what is best for the United States. And it makes me mad [...]

With the balance in the Senate on the line, I’ve been trying very hard to watch what is coming out of our neighbor state of Minnesota.  And I’ve been somewhat appalled.  With only a few hundred votes seperating the two competitors out of several million votes, I expected there to be some court battles and [...]

In the wake of the loss of the McCain/Palin ticket, there have been plenty of pundits and party folk who have been attacking Sarah Palin.  They’ve been saying that she may have cost McCain the election and that it was still a horribly poor choice for the VP candidate.  I’ve let you know how I [...]

It occurs to me that if you’re a comedian who’s running for Senate and you’re trying to distance yourself from your comedic rants, that running a campaign commercial with a talking Bass isn’t the best way to go about that.

I don’t live in Minnesota, so I don’t have much of an opinion on who should [...]