This evening I donned a gas mask and stopped by BS Cairn, as I was suffering a little indecision as to what I wanted to blog about tonight. Coincidentally, a couple inconsistencies in Montana GOP rhetoric (at least in comparison to their actions) had been bugging me today, thus I was pleased to see Wiley […]
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While I’m still a little angry this morning about the residents of my neighborhood closing the door on the Pov’s drop-in center, there is some good news to be found: the state of Montana is about twice as fiscally solvent as analysts had predicted for the year.
Most of us Dems have known for a long […]
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Jay already wrote up his thoughts on Rep. Rehberg’s fire sale on Cuba votes, but I thought I’d add my two cents. Not that there’s a good price for which to sell your votes, it just strikes me as strange when Denny, or former Sen. Conrad Burns, make a whiplash inducing change on an important […]
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I’ve been hearing informally that the Obama campaign plans to register 40,000 new voters in Montana before November, and win between 52 and 55 percent of the state’s independent vote. If this ended up being the case, a simple campaign to make sure Montanans voting for Obama also took the time to vote down ticket […]
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Jay and Pogie have already covered it, but when someone pulls a move like this, they need to hear it from everyone:
Professional pseudo-journalist and ex-GOP staffer Dave Rye (you know, the one that has the radio show that used to belong to the bigamist) is at it again. Remember this gem?
Pardon my skepticism, and […]
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Jay touched on an important topic today, when he pondered, “how much does the rightie anti-immigration rhetoric spur this kind of thing,” in reference to an alleged hate crime in Marion last weekend.
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Maybe it’s the flames licking up the side of Mt. Sentinel (cheeky disclosure: I was on the mountain with a group of match-playing kids in the 80’s when the mountain last really burnt, while family lived in Married Student Housing), but something put a little heat to the Montana political news cycle this morning after […]
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I thought I should mention Gwen Florio’s favorable review of Greg Lemon’s biography of Gov. Schweitzer, “Blue Man in a Red State” this week. It’s often easy to forget that politicians are real people too, and this quote from the review makes it clear that Lemon’s book doesn’t forget this:
There’s an especially poignant […]
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Rep. Henry Waxman today hinted at legislation aimed at outlawing Karl Rove-type advisers in future administrations. The Hill quoted Rep. Waxman as saying, “Why should we be using taxpayer dollars to have a person solely in charge of politics in the White House? Can you imagine the reaction if each member of Congress […]
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Sen. Baucus’ steadfast fight to reverse the 10.6 percent cut to the federal Medicaid reimbursement rate is exactly the reason why he’s currently the 10th longest serving member of the Senate. In an aging state like Montana, where health care shortages can sometimes be the rule rather than the exception, we simply can’t afford […]
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