By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution

The downside to Minnesota's government reopening, which creaked to a start in earnest Thursday: No significant progress was made on the state's massive budget woes, leaving lawmakers and taxpayers on track to face the same — if not bigger — deficit problems in two years.

It's Walter Mondale and Friends to the rescue in Minnesota, where the state's political elders have staged a third-party intervention.