Brian Williams on Letterman
David Letterman returned last night and one of his first guests of 2011 was NBC News anchor Brian Williams. We’ve seen Williams be funny plenty of times before with Jon Stewart, or with Jimmy Fallon...
View ArticleDeBlog: Is It OK For Men To Cry?
I admit it, I’m a crier. I was tearing up like a baby when I was watching Toy Story 3 last weekend. I try to hide it, covering my face a bit, turning to the side. But why? Tomorrow Rep. John Boehner...
View ArticleGood Question: Is It OK For Men To Cry?
By Jason DeRusha, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — When new Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner went on “60 Minutes,” he broke into tears, several times. It’s happened often throughout his career. Some...
View ArticleBoehner Signals Compromise In Budget Talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite fresh pressure from tea party conservatives, House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that Republicans “can’t impose our will” on the White House and Senate Democrats on...
View ArticleDebt Debate Debacle
John Avlon will join the show Monday to talk about his article on the debt debate and react to President Obama’s press conference.
View ArticlePawlenty: Boehner’s Latest Budget Plan Falls Short
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty says House GOP leaders’ latest deficit-reduction plan doesn’t go far enough. Pawlenty says in a statement Tuesday that he favors the...
View ArticleThe Debt Ceiling
Major Garrett will join the show to talk about the debt ceiling. Here are a couple of his latest stories. Boehner to Rewrite Bill, Pres. Obama and compromise.
View ArticleOpinion: Harry Reid Dares to Talk About Angry Old White Men
Every time I think I may have figured U.S. Senator Harry Reid out, he says something else completely outrageous that convinces me that I haven’t even come close in figuring him out yet. Of all of the...
View ArticleOpinion: Bachmann’s Muslim Brotherhood Concerns In Obama Administration...
Hold it! Don’t drop last week’s controversial headlines regarding U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other GOP House members who said that President Barack Obama’s administration has connections to...
View ArticleOpinion: Billions Are Being Spent On This Election, But Will It Change Anything?
As the polls stand today the biggest question of the 2012 election is: (a) what happens in the House of Representatives? And (b) is it possible, after billions of dollars in ads and two years of...
View ArticleOpinion: Four More Years Of Gridlock
The 2012 presidential election results gave the United States Congress little reason to end the gridlock that has plagued President Barack Obama for the past two years. After all, the politicians who...
View ArticleOpinion: Quit Gloating And Whining
Even though it’s only three days after the presidential election of 2012 and a certain amount of gloating on the part of President Barack Obama supporters and a certain amount of whining is expected...
View ArticleOpinion: Elections Have Consequences
President Obama won an Electoral College landslide on Tuesday. He held on to every swing state that Romney needed to win. Obama defeated Romney in his home states of Massachusetts and Michigan and in...
View ArticleOpinion: Pelosi Stays On As Leader, Continuing To Defy The GOP War On Women
Depending on how leadership elections go in the minority party in the House and in the Senate, it looks as if all the party leaders will be the same as they were in the last Congress. Unless House...
View ArticleOpinion: Grover Puts Himself Before Party And Country
In the Presidential debates, Mitt Romney targeted Big Bird as a place to take the knife when cutting the federal budget. But it turns out that Grover, and not Big Bird, has the most to lose following...
View ArticleOpinion: The Fourteenth Amendment Solution
With one month to go before the U.S. goes off what is being called by some the fiscal cliff and others, more accurately, the fiscal slope, the president and Democrats hold all the cards. Absent a...
View ArticleOpinion: GOP A Party Without A Plan
Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner brought the President’s $2 trillion deficit reduction plan to the Senate. It included $1.6 trillion in new revenue and $400 billion in entitlement...
View ArticleObama Phones Minn. Residents, Talks Fiscal Cliff
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – President Barack Obama is ramping up efforts to force Congress to make a deal. He’s hoping to reach a budget agreement soon to avoid what Washington calls a “fiscal cliff.” That’s...
View ArticleOpinion: GOP Too Extreme
A majority of Americans think the GOP is too extreme. According to new polling by CNN, 53 percent of Americans think that the Republican party’s policies and views as too extreme. Nearly a quarter of...
View ArticleOpinion: Sore Losers
Once again, House Republicans have taken their ball and gone home. Members of the House of Representatives bolted town on Thursday after rejecting a plan advanced by House Speaker John Boehner. It is...
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