Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.

He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

The people don't elect U.S. presidents, God does.