Archive for July, 2009
by JC – so says Paul Krugman as he describes Max Baucus’ drive to find some votes in the Senate Finance committee. Krugman points to the fact that neighboring Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, is the 8th most conservative member of the Senate: Aside from the fact that Enzi, like Baucus, represents a mountainous state with [...]
by JC Rick Gold over at at Montana Legal Eagle reminds us today that the Montana Constitution also guarantees “the rights of pursuing life’s basic necessities” to all people in the state. His recent article, “Security vs Liberty in Missoula MT” gets right to the point: So maybe, the real issue is this: Missoulians giving [...]
by Pete Talbot I picked up Thursday’s Missoulian and the Missoula Independent at the same time yesterday. Both had lead stories on Sen. Baucus and health care reform. The sub-head on the Indy piece reads: Is Sen. Max Baucus the sellout the left portrays or the savvy centrist poised to finally reform health care? They [...]
by jhwygirl Just read it. This one too.
by jhwygirl I read or skim across a whole lot of bad stuff about Senator Baucus, daily. Today, though, was filled with an inordinate bombardment of media concerning our Senator, and I have to say, with regards to bad Baucus news, it really was unavoidable. From the front page of the Missoula Independent …to the [...]
by problembear Price list: 1. minimum of 2500.00 gets you a handshake and a watered down drink and a burnt up burger. 2. 10,000.00 gets you a five minute sit down with the king himself… 3. 4,000,000.00 gets you any kind of health bill you want. update: max just got suckerpunched by the republicants on [...]
by jhwygirl There’s all kinds of crazy talk out there about impending disaster of health care industry reform. One of the more maddening ones is the-sky-is-falling “We don’t need socialized medicine.” Socialists. Socialism…it’s all the righty-wing talk show craze. That and – apparently – the real conspiracy behind health care reform is an objective to [...]
by JC This little dandy happened by my email box today, from the Progressive Democrats of America’s Montana chapter: Dear ****, “Our” Senator, Max Baucus, is holding a big fund-raiser known as Camp Baucus ($5000 per PAC or $2500 per Individual) at Big Sky, Montana, from July 31 through August 2 for the insurance industry, [...]
by JC Really??? And just how does the two new ordinances under consideration accomplish that? “The working group aims to protect and improve quality of life in downtown Missoula for all people who use the area, including business owners, people who live and work downtown, shoppers and patrons of professional offices, and people who are [...]
by problembear the health insurance parasites are so grateful to max for taking care of their interests they made him a commercial….
by JC CQ Politics reported today that: The Blue Dog revolt against the House leadership’s health care overhaul took a new turn Tuesday morning, when a several members of the centrist faction made overtures to House Republicans about joining forces to slow… the bill. Republican aides said there was great interest among GOP lawmakers in [...]
by jhwygirl Let me first say that this story can (and will) be applicable to any town, any place, any time in the future. It just happens to be being reported in Bozeman right now. Bozeman School Board has about 500 employees, and is self-insured. The $62,000 increase in premiums is a back-up policy that [...]
by jhwygirl Just over a year ago Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks scrapped a plan to electrify several parks, including Salmon Lake, West Shore in Lake County, and Placid Lake campgrounds, due to public outcry against the project. The Indy’s George Ochenski, a matter of fact, mentioned the fiasco just a few short weeks ago. [...]
by jhwygirl There is a K-12 trustee vacancy on the Missoula County School Board. This is the vacancy created by the resignation of Nancy Hirning. Applications to temporarily fill that post are due on Wednesday. Hirning resigned last month, blaming it on the Missoulian’s coverage of Hirning in the whole “The Story of Stuff” controversy. [...]
by JC The Panhandling Working Group, of “Real Change, Not Spare Change” fame, is bringing its newest brainchildren, the “Missoula Aggressive Solicitation Act” and its companion “Pedestrian Interference Act” before City Council for a hearing this Monday night in Council chambers. Not satisfied with the regular process, where approved ordinances become effective after 30 days, [...]
by jhwygirl Don’t know if any of you have noticed, but the Missoula Independent revamped its website – and I love it! – and it has also added a blog. Love it love it love it love it!! I believe many around town are also saying “Finally!” as there has been rumors of the revamp [...]
by jhwygirl ….been a while. I think about health care reform a lot. I think about the cost – but not the cost of providing efficient and accessible health care for all, but the cost of not providing health care. What is that cost if we don’t do anything for ten years? I want to [...]
by JC ProPublica has a chart of all the stimulating transportation projects listed by state. You can see Montana’s projects here. Road and bridge projects are expected to make up one of the biggest chunks of the jobs created by the stimulus package. We’ve put together a chart of more than 5,800 projects that [...]
“The Finance Committee keeps dragging their feet and dragging their feet and dragging their feet,” says Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. “It is a really, really bad way to try and develop support and ideas,” says WV Senator Jay Rockefeller. —– by JC Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid postponed a vote on health care in the [...]
by JC Tipped off by Keila over at MIssoula Red Tape, we come to find that MT Conservation Voters just released its first Missoula City Conservation Scorecard. Prefaced by the usual round of platitudes, we come to find that Councilors Jason Wiener and Dave Strohmaier scored a perfect 100, needing a vote for backyard chickens [...]
by JC I think this one is better seen than written about. The details are just too gory. Brought to you by WeWantThePublicOption.Com Baucus also headlined a Washington Post article, “Industry Cash Flowed To Drafters of Reform” revealing the extent to which Baucus and other key lawmakers are using the runup to dropping the health [...]
by jhwygirl I got slammed by some a while back for calling a woman who could have looked the other way a hero – a woman who could have looked the other way as is the tendency these days – a woman who essentially handed police a murder suspect. Well, looks like there are two [...]
by jhwygirl Yesterdays very good Missoulian story from reporter Keila Spzaller contained lots of interesting quotes from political observers and lawyers and stuff like that. Good read, if you haven’t hit it already. What I found funny was this quote from one of Ward 5′s Lawsuiters, Dick Haines (Ward 5′s other Lawsuiter is Renee Mitchell). [...]
by jhwygirl (With a hat tip to Wil_M…) I’ll be waiting for the outcry from the right. Fox News “strategic analyst” Lt. Col. Ralph Peters was on Fox News today, spewing garbage about 23 year old Bowie Bergdahl, of Hailey, Idaho. I won’t go through all the crap he was spewing, but let’s just say [...]
by JC Governor Schweitzer was on C-SPAN this morning eviscerating Congressional attempts to reform health care. HuffPo’s Ben Stein reported on his remarks: “The second problem we have is that one of the least effective programs in terms of health care, in the history of this country, is something called Medicaid… Now Medicaid is a [...]
by jhwygirl And so it appears that is exactly what the lawsuiters are thinking with this past Monday’s op-ed in the Missoulian, what with the first paragraph: A June 18 guest column contains inadequacies we would like to address. None of the signors of the June 16 guest column ever said to scrap Title 20. [...]
by jhwygirl Thought I’d let everyone know. I don’t have HBO – maybe someone can give me the highlights.
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