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Related: About this forumMinnesota Extremist John Kline: "Ted Cruz and I and every Republican"
John Kline is a right-wing extremist from southeast Minnesota. His district, MN-02, stretches from south of St. Paul through Eagan, Burnsville, Apple Valley, and Northfield all the way down to Wabasha and the Zumbro Bottoms State Forest. Although the PVI is still classified R+2, Obama took the district in both 2008 and 2012. Kline is the chairman of the House Workforce and Education Committee, where he has been able to do a great deal of damage to working families. Although the DCCC has given him a free pass to reelection, Kline was the model for the Blue America Have You Had Enough? campaign in 2006.
In the video above you can hear him pandering to brainwashed fanatics, his base: Obamacare is a continued disaster . . .So Ted Cruz, like all the rest of us, have voted again and again to repeal, defund, delay, push back Obamacare. We had a tactic, we said, Okay, were going to let the government shutdown. . . . so we let the government shut down for sixteen days. We voted again, and again, and again-- Ted Cruz and I and every Republican-- again, and again, and again to open the government only under these conditions: that you defund it or you delay it all.
But the Affordable Care Act is pretty popular in Minnesota and folks there-- unlike Kline and his paranoid base of Hate Talk Radio addicts-- do not want to see it repealed. A national poll was released by CNN yesterday, confirming what all legitimate polls show-- most Americans want to give the Affordable Care Act a chance to work. Normal voters do not support Kline's and Cruz's tactics of "repeal, defund, delay." And they are really opposed to shutting down the government to get their way, which, of course, Kline not only supported, but was a leader and an architect of the reviled tactic. Soon after Kline voted to shut down the government, the PPP asked voters in MN-02 what they thought of the tactic. The results are worth looking at.
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2014/05/minnesota-extremist-john-kline-ted-cruz.html
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Minnesota Extremist John Kline: "Ted Cruz and I and every Republican" (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
May 2014
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Yup. When I'm tired of presenting research and facts to teabaggers, I resort to posting this:
progree
May 2014
#3
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. ...
justhanginon
(3,289 posts)2. Love the graphic. It would
be a good one to print up on business cards and use it to end those fruitless conversations with Teabaggers by just handing them a card.
progree
(10,901 posts)3. Yup. When I'm tired of presenting research and facts to teabaggers, I resort to posting this:
Hey, TEA PARTY fanatics, google "Koch Brothers" if ya wanna see who's really behind your so-called "grass roots" movement.....it's really an "astro turf" job.....do you REALLY think rich corporations and rich people in general actually care about you, do you think they want to hang out with you? You guys are being used, but you're too dopey to even realize it.....the rich are laughing at you; while you champion their lower taxes/no taxes, they're laughing all the way to the bank....When was the last time YOU were able to have a good laugh????
glinda
(14,807 posts)7. He slid money over to the Fleet Farm boy. Uck.
progree
(10,901 posts)4. Kline is real good, but actually our greatest pride and joy as Minnesotans is Michelle Bachmann
in the 6th Congressional District just north of the Twin Cities.
Kline is in the 2nd district just south of the Twin Cities. So we in the Twin Cities are surrounded by complete nutbags -- one to the north (Bachmann) and one to the south (Kline), and to the west of us (Erik Paulsen (R) of the 3rd Congressional District), and Wisconsin (R) to the east of us.
Minnesota congressional districts -- great map but can't figure out how to embed, sorry
http://www.sos.state.mn.us/Modules/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=1173
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)5. S.O.P. for the Tea Baggger Republican Party.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)6. Slimey Kline
is actually from TX originally. He needs to go.