The US House passes legislation protecting the Rocky Mountain Front! Rehberg, against it before he was for it, voted “yea.”
MT GOP displays all the patience and sharing skills of a toddler when divvying up committee seats in the state House. This is getting to be a joke.
The rumbling over the Governor’s coal-to-gas plan has begun…
…an update on the Salish-Kootenai gaming shutdown…
jhwygirl has an excellent LiTW diary about the zoning FUBAR that is Rock Creek. Remember, regulatory takings is intended to help out-of-state developers that use and abuse the land, like at Rock Creek.
TMM reminds us of the possible judicial boulder hanging over our state’s education budget.
Matt writes about free trade’s affect on the Flathead Valley’s labor market and urges policymakers to consider fair trade side agreements.
Notorious Mark T drills Conrad Burns over his comments on U.S. tax policy, which favors the wealthy over working stiffs.
Idaho’s Bill Sali owes a quarter of a million to shadowing political backers. Remember this is the guy who spent like $30 for every vote and barely eked out a win…
Ed Kemmick comments on the odd way an out-of-state group is going about building an enormous nuclear power plant in rural Idaho.
Courtney Lowery gives us the Western political links and discusses the New West political organization (she likes the name)…
Pogie kicks some departing members of Congress to the curb.
Vanity Fair’s fascinating profile of Mark Foley and his half-secret double life.
Rahm Emmanuel knew about the Mark Foley correspondence. Glenn Greenwald: “Which course Democrats take will be determined by whether they are guided by political figures committed to genuine change due to a conviction that such change is needed (even if that means incurring some political risks), or whether they are driven by cynical, exclusively political and dishonest Beltway operatives like Rahm Emanuel.”
Tom Delay has, er, had, a blog. Based on the comments he received, it looks like he won’t be blogging again soon.
Kos predicts Mitt Romney’s 1994 support of making “equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern” will effectively kill his campaign.
Meanwhile, Obama is becoming a rock star…
Bush administration’s latest tool in cracking down on evildoers: Google. Hilarity ensues.
Six ways our continued presence could make Iraq worse.
Jane Hamsher adroitly sums up what’s wrong with the ISG with a lot of links to a lot of pople, like Media Matters’ Paul Waldman: “If you supported what may be the single biggest foreign policy debacle in our nation’s history, you are ‘serious.’”
First there were “Friedman units,” now there’s “Biden shots.”
Is it already the new election season? Republican Gordon Smith trashes Bush over Iraq on the floor of the Senate. (Other electioneering flip-floppers…)
Kofi Annan nails it: multilateralism not only works, it’s crucial.
Jesus’ General has created the ultimate tribute to the Fightin’ First Family!
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December 11, 2006 at 8:04 pm
“Coffee” Annan sounds bitter so lets go over his failure list. Rwanda, Kosovo, Dafur, Oil for food, child-sex scandals, twelve years of non enforcement against Saddam. Iran’s starts a nuc program and N. Korea pops one off. Oh, by the way its all Israel’s fault. Sounds like a proud legacy of a past Minnesota Graduate student, good riddance.
December 11, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Swede, apparently I am making it my new job to refute you all across the interenet. If their is one thing that Annan is not, it is bitter. He is a very humble individual. Let’s see, most of the thing that you listed happened on Bush’s watch buddy, if you want to lay the blame on one man, George has much more power than Kofi.
child-sex scandals
-Conrad voted for those in the Marrianas and Mak Foley was making them here
Iran’s starts a nuc program
-Bush’s watch
N. Korea pops one off
-Bush’s watch
Dafur
- Bush’s watch
twelve years of non enforcement against Saddam
- there were no weapons of mass distruction, looks like that was working
December 12, 2006 at 5:41 am
Coffee and bitter? Nevermind. Seeing all your comrades laid wasted on the field of battle I’ll enjoy the challenge. (not a drug reference)
December 12, 2006 at 11:31 am
Shane: you are absolutely correct, as for Swede what comrades were wasted on the battlefield?? Bush has succeeded in creating civil war in Iraq yet North Korea rolls ahead unabated. Yup, protected America from those (heretofore undiscovered) WMDs of Saddams, meanwhile Kim et al have a million man army.
Seems like LITW and its contributors reached the pinnacle of success with Tester’s election. Swede you’re the bitter one – if the shoe fits wear it.