Rumblings from the public about Rick Jore’s place on the Education committee.
Rick Jore responds!
Jeff Mangan offers Sideshow Scott a mulligan on Jore, and suggests some preferable alternatives to chair the committee.
And Notorious Mark T reminds everybody that Rick Jore isn’t the only kook on the Education Committee: don’t forget Roger Koopman!
Here’s a good piece of legislation that’s coming up in the legislature: a bill that would cap interest rates for payday and title loans.
…and the state’s crime lab needs more money, too…
But George Ochenski doesn’t think the Governor has the personal capital to push his agenda through the legislature.
New West’s Richard Martin has some alternative energy news and links to energy issues in the interior West.
TomPaine’s Jacob Hacker proposes a way to acquire health care to all.
New Jersey legislature gets civil unions done…
How a butterfly discredits Intelligent Design theory.
Kossak Kagro X explains how Senator Johnson’s absence could throw the Senate into chaos.
Tom Delay thinks a vast left-wing conspiracy will sweep Hilary Clinton into the President’s office, a conspiracy of…people…and voters…oh, and Obama is a Marxist!
Speaking of Obama, he’s looking better all the time, considering that this is all the right-wing spin machine can bring.
And you can tell Obama is a decent candidate because DC pundits are suspicious of the enthusiasm of his supporters.
Even George Will thinks Obama should run.
Raul Fernandez, writing in the Washington Post, claims the Internet was the driving force behind the 2006 elections.
The Bush administration has decided public input is no longer necessary for the long-term management of our nation’s forests.
Why the media isn’t reporting good news from Iraq…
And apparently the British government never thought Saddam had WMDs…
Active-duty US military personnel organize to oppose the Iraq War.
For you history geeks out there: why Richard Hofstadter matters, especially today.
A pretty cool story of lost gold, civil war, and mysterious “key holders.”
Can a tee-shirt be a security risk? Yes, if it’s a thoughtcrime doubleplus ungood.
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December 18, 2006 at 8:07 am
Jay -
Actually, my column didn’t talk about all of Schweitzer’s agenda — it said the only thing the Rs would let through the House is stuff they wanted to see go through. In the case of Schweitzer’s agenda, I fear what will go through are the reams of terrible coal development bills to create what one source calls “drive-thru permiting.” It is the progressive part of the Demo agenda (which is not necessarily just Schweitzer’s) that is like to suffer such egregious losses. That would include cleaning up the initiative process, re-instating environmental standards to the levels Montana proudly enjoyed prior to the disastrous 16 years of Republican governors and legislatures, restoring adequate education funding that will stand up to the court challenge, and taking care of the needs of the sick, the old, and the poor — what any civilized society would do unless it was mired in insane ideology that somehow the least capable should “pull themselves up by their boot straps.”
So that’s my call. The coal and industrial development half of Schweitzer’s agenda goes through and everything else faces a bona-fide struggle for survival.
December 18, 2006 at 10:39 am
Ugh.