HELL TO PAY

Powerline ^ | 5 Feb 2026 | Scott Johnson

[Rummyfan]

If he were so inclined, I think Governor Walz could rewrite the Paul Simon song subtitled “How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission.” In Walz’s case, it would go “How I was Nancy Pelosi’d Into Submission.” The lyrics would explain how he was Nancy Pelosi’d into submission by Amy Klobuchar, or perhaps how he was Klobber’d into submission. I told the public part of the story in the Examiner column “Exit Tim Walz, stage Biden.”

Walz has now folded his campaign for an absurd third gubernatorial term. To say that Walz is the worst governor in Minnesota history does not come close to doing justice to his case. Like the children of Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, our Minnesota governors have mostly been above average, with a dip here and there. Walz has plumbed the depths of political turpitude while refusing to take responsibility for the catastrophe over which he at least bears supervisory responsibility.

Now Senator Klobuchar has cleared the field to take Walz’s place as the DFL candidate for governor. She is the most popular Democratic officeholder in the state, but the “Let’s Go Crazy” Dems were out in full force at precinct caucuses in Hennepin County this past Tuesday evening. Klobuchar was not quite crazy enough for them. In (Minneapolis’s) Senate District 62. represented by the ideologically fetid Omar Fateh, Klobuchar was Klobber’d by Uncommitted. Still, she klean’d up statewide despite many protest votes.

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[Rummyfan]

Senator Klobuchar has attached her name to many bills that don’t amount to much, such as (my personal favorite) her proposed 2015 bill to resolve the crisis of the detergent pod. It represents the reductio ad absurdum of the vacuity to which Klobuchar has reduced herself in the service of self-promotion.

LOL! Will we be better off with her out of The Senate? Depends who her replacement is.

[Reily]

A breathing walking talking advertisement for repeal of the 17th Amendment! The state legislature couldn’t do worse.

[ComputerGuy]

...has plumbed the depths of political turpitude...

[Steely Tom]

I've been Ayn Randed
and I've been branded
Communist 'cause I'm left-handed
that's the hand I use... well, never mind.