MN’s US House Democrats, Amongst Most Liberal Nationally
I bet few people caught this one last week, and I had to dig to find it in the PiPress archives:
McCollum tied in most liberal rank
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum compiled the most liberal voting record in the Minnesota congressional delegation last year, according to the National Journal’s congressional vote ratings for 2008.
The St. Paul Democrat tied with 11 other members for the most liberal ranking in the 435-member House.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minneapolis, was ranked the 13th most liberal in the House. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Chisholm, was 35th most liberal. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Mankato, ranked 175th, and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Detroit Lakes, was 210th.
These are votes from the previous session and during President Bush – a Democrat controlled Congress, but far from Obamamania we’re seeing now. Since then all votes have been for much more liberal policies. So far the only Minnesota Democrat in Congress who seems remotely willing to buck President Obama is Peterson. This is good for Republicans, but bad for Minnesota.Â
I saw a clip of Sen. Klobuchar via Real Clear politics on an MSNBC show and she was asked about how Minnesota is a conservative state. It is interesting to see her flail and flop to defend the most liberal President in the history of the US and flat out lie about the facts on the ground in her own state. Everywhere I go I overhear average people pitchfork mad about what Obama and Congress are doing.Â
I’ve talked to a number of GOPers who don’t think Klobuchar is beatable, but given that she is cozying up to Obama and his radical agenda, she should have a bullseye on her back. She is becoming everything to Obama that she said about her opponent in 2006. Lapdog. Rubberstamp. Chief defender. The time is now to start pegging her for the socialist that she is. She has had a free ride for far too long now. 4 solid years of putting her under the magnifying glass so all Minnesotans can see how she is on Obama’s side would do the state good. We may well end up with the thief Franken, so we need to start working on the next US Senate election now.Â
And the point is that the local media isn’t going to do it for us. They loathe the idea of actually reporting and prefer to make the news, not report the facts.Â
If Minnesotans do get to see that these Democrats they send to Washington are actually very VERY left of center and not the moderates they masquerade as during campaigns, chances are the election results will be much different. The reason Republicans have been getting their butts kicked the last 2 cycles is not because Minnesota is going left, it is because Republicans as a whole didn’t give them a real choice.Â
This should be something that all conservatives let their friends know about. It should be something we let Republican leaders and candidates know as well. Minnesota’s elected Democrats are amongst the most liberal in the nation. They are defending Obama’s assault on freedom, liberty, prosperity, and free markets. There is plenty of room for us to start to include conservative principles in the debate now. There is no need to chase the liberal Democrats and their ideas. Proof of that is how badly we have been beaten in the last 2 cycles when our top candidates did just that.Â
Our conservative ideas and principles are superior and if Democrats want their arguments to be the same as Obama’s radical socialist agenda, we go into battle with the advantage. As I watched some of Rush Limbaugh’s address to CPAC yesterday, I prayed that our party’s leaders saw it too, especially Minnesota’s top leaders and elected officials.Â
If you haven’t seen that yet, do so and send it to your friends.
