Archive for September, 2006
I’m going on a much-needed vacation next week, and I’m planning on taking a break from everything, especially blogging. There’s not much time before the general election, and the ugliness is just beginning, I’m afraid. I sorely need this week with my family, getting all the Republican toxins out of my system. I’ll be back [...]
As Cece reminds us, it’s very, very, very important to vote against the terrible trio of initiatives on your absentee ballot in case they are reinstituted on the ballot. Annick Smith on CI 154. Burns is using push polls. (Update. ) They’re illegal. We got a call last night, as did Nicole. Ugh. Do we [...]
Bruce Ackerman has a fantastic summary of some of the disturbing components to the torture legislation the spineless GOP Senators – including Conrad Burns – will soon pass: The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the [...]
Earlier today I linked to an article, the top 12 traps that keep progressives from winning elections. Blah de blah-blah. Seen, heard this stuff for…years?…now. Old news. I did like this section on polls, which is why I linked to the article: Many progressives slavishly follow polls. The job of leaders is to lead, not [...]
A little while ago, I wrote a post on the NRA’s support of Senator Conrad Burns, and how it was an obvious partisan move, placing the Republican party above the Second Amendment. There was a little fussing from the usual suspects in the comments, saying that Tester’s in the “party of gun control,” and by [...]
Cece sent off her complaint to the FEC regarding the Butte seating scandal. Nice work. Wulfgar! mulls over Sinrud’s drive-by campaigning and his new sure-fire proposal for the state legislature. David Crisp’s profile of Jon Tester. JEFF realizes an ugly truth: he and Bill O’Reilly just don’t see eye-to-eye. Colby mulls over Iraqi opinion on [...]
Today’s creep paid me a visit here at 4&20 blackbirds and left me an unpleasant little message. I deleted it, because…well…it was rude and vaguely threatening and I didn’t want others to think I condoned that sort of comment. But then I was thinking it would be better to air out this kind of thinking, [...]
Guess who visits Liberal Wacko? Our favorite GOP state representative, John Sinrud. Matt is all over Butte Standard editor Gerry O’Brien for his prevaricating over the Butte seating scandal. Matt also speaks up against torture, agree that it’s a moral issue and calling on Barack Obama to shut up or put up. Bill Sali to [...]
Here it is, all you need to know about the Bush administration, the Iraq War, terrorism, and extra-Constitutional activities: The Iraq War worsens the threat of terrorism. Bush’s extra-legal activities do not result in increased arrests or convictions. Torture is immoral. Any questions?
By now, you’re all dialed in on the Butte seating scandal. A Burns and Montana GOP corporate sponsor – Resodyn Corp – put up $200 in exchange for about 100 front-and-center seats to stock with Burns’ supporters. The press got on it, the FEC complaints are being made, it’s likely the ethical entanglement will be [...]
The other day in my daily Links post, I brought attention to a Harper’s blog interview with Professor Kate Brown of Maryland University about her comparison of Guantanamo and the Soviet Gulags alongside the comment “You proud to be an American? For how much longer?” Like most Links comments, it was an off-the-cuff remark, a [...]
Guess who turned three? Catch Monica Lindeen’s YPR interview. Charles Johnson and Jennifer McKee on the Butte seating scandal. Kemmick pretty much nails it when mulling the controversy. Montana Standard editor O’Brien gives Pogie the run-around. Salon’s profile of Burns getting testy about Abramoff. “Are you a subject of the investigation?” “I’m not a target.” [...]
New West is having a contest for two Rolling Stones tickets for the upcoming October 4 mega-show. (Seventy trucks rolling to town with the stage setup! Let’s hope it doesn’t rain!) I’ll be out of town, but this is your big chance to see the Stones live in Missoula. But there’s a catch. You have [...]
So PBS NOW ran a show on the Howie-Rich sponsored initiatives, focusing on Travis Butcher’s little operation here in Montana. I meant to get to it over the weekend, but I was in Butte…and was waylaid. Good show. A quick and well-crafted intro on who, how, and where the initiatives were generated, run, and funded. [...]
For full local blog coverage of the Butte debate, check out Missoula Justin’s handy-dandy one-stop roundup, updated regularly. Tho’ he did leave out Colby’s post on Boss Hogg’s one-liners and Jeff’s debate impressions, both of whom I met at the debate and learned that Speedkill Jeff actually has no last name, kinda like Madonna or [...]
You’ve read what I wrote at the debate, and might have already heard or seen the debate on the radio or television. (If you haven’t, it’s still not too late.) So unless you live under a rock – and you don’t if you’re reading this – you know that Tester spanked Burns in Butte. Even [...]
Just got a press release about the national sales tax comment Tester brought up about Conrad Burns. Apparently the information comes from Burns’ answers on a recent National Taxpayers Survey. Some highlights from the release: Burns favors a complete repeal of the entire federal tax code to be replaced with a national sales tax. According [...]
7:06pm Closing statements. Tester: Talks about being a Montanan and a good public servant. “I’m going to fight for you.” Burns can’t beat me, “I’m one of you. I’m going there back for you and more importantly for your kids and your grandkids.” Talks about health care, Iraq, no leadership in DC. It’s time for [...]
Bob Keenan now: The Tester you see on TV is all conservative talk… But he votes with the liberal left because he is one of them. Tester has a record of raising your taxes. He even co-sponsored a bill to increase income taxes on people making as little as $24,000 per year. Make no mistake, [...]
Cece analyzes some of the other initiatives on the upcoming ballot. Today, CI 153, the bill trying to limit the flow of lawmakers into lobbying groups. Who else is guessing the GOP will be against this? Nicole, Scott, and Matt blogswarm the Montana GOP’s efforts to smear Tester as an enemy of children. They’ll say [...]
Has anybody else noticed that there’s been some excellent analysis of the Montana Senate race in the state’s newspapers lately? First it was Gwen Florio’s article on the upcoming Butte debate. In it, Florio mentions the latest attack on Tester by the Montana GOP: On Thursday an e-mail from the Montana Republican Party said Tester [...]
Today’s creep, Daniel Shevlin of Missoula, comes from the pages of the Missoula Independent. This is what he had to say: Praise be to Allah Thank God for freedom of speech, eh American Liberal? I mean, in what other country are you free to support terrorism, without fear of reprisal? Only in America, my friend. [...]
So what got me started on Sinrud, you may ask? It wasn’t much. Just a drive-by comment left on a post with published newspaper letters in praise of Jon Tester. But, you see, the comment was so irritating… Okay, before I break into a patented rant, I’ll let you read the comment: Jon Tester has [...]
Jonathan Singer suggests that the decision made by Montana television stations to not air the Burns firefighter ad may be politically motivated. Matt has more on Abramoff, the Department of Justice, and the word “target.” The Richmond journalism project interviews Ethel McDonald of the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center on how activist groups influence elections. Both [...]
It’s true! There’s a class blogging national Senate races, including our very own Senate race. It looks like a pretty cool project. They’re also doing the Ohio Senate race, the Rhode Island Senate race, and the Pennsylvania Senate race. Oh yeah, the Tennesee Senate race, too. Check it out, give ‘em some tips, leave comments. [...]
The Montana Senate race is pretty dang exciting, isn’t it? And while the House race isn’t getting much press, it’s an easy target for bloggers, especially when Rehberg actually opens his mouth. But there are crucial races going on at the state level, races that not only Democrats need to win, but Montana, too. Who [...]
Cece has the specifics of the ruling against the “Scr*w our state” initiative. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington releases its report on the most corrupt members of Congress…congratulations to Montana Senator Conrad Burns for making the list! (You can download the full report, too.) Burns “not a target” of a DoJ investigation? Matt [...]
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