Archive for August, 2009
by problembear but did anyone see this in yesterday’s paper.……hmmmmm. thoughts, opinions, insight…anyone want to share their favorite ped/bike story here? i am all ears. looks like mr smith takes a pretty good drubbing here. is it deserved? do you agree with the editor?……..just sayin’……………
by jhwygirl Anti-health insurance reformers have repeated, in comments to posts on this blog a number of versions of “Get a job!” as if everyone supporting reform isn’t holding down a full-time job. I have trouble fathoming the utter ignorance to the very world/community that these live within. Do they think that all – and [...]
by JC They’re “Stonewalling” says Trib Reporter Update 2:30pm: John Adams, reporter for the Great Falls Tribune, tweeted this a bit ago: “the stonewalling on this is highly unusual–will be part of my story tomorrow. No one is returning calls.” Update 9:30pm: MTLowdown has posted Rehberg’s blood alcohol report for us. It shows him at [...]
by Jay Stevens From Salish Kootenai chair James Steele’s excellent op-ed on health care reform: My other interest relates to a recent visit by a Fox News reporter to an Indian reservation in South Dakota. He made the argument that if the IHS couldn’t provide decent health care there, how could the federal government do [...]
by Jamee Greer Here’s a little reminder as we go into the next week from former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s blog: Washington, D.C. is an echo chamber in which anyone who sounds authoritative repeats the conventional authoritative wisdom about the “consensus” of inside opinion, which they’ve heard from someone else who sounds equally authoritative, [...]
by JC Update 8/31, 10:30am: Seems that Barkus found a need to hire an attorney. He is directing all questions to Todd Glazier. And John Adams is tweeting that a press conference is currently underway. He reports: “Not much new to report from today’s [8/31] press conference. Rehberg, Smith to be released today. Frost “stable.” [...]
by jhwygirl We all know drinking is practically a hobby here in Montana, although that culture is slowly slinking away as education outreach works its way through generations. One would, in these days and ages, expect that our elected officials have absorbed that educational outreach…or at least set an honorable example. Erik Iverson, who still [...]
…name recognition has become a problem. by JC From the HelenaIR: “McDonald and Missoula attorney Tyler Greenest are both vying to unseat Denny Rehberg.” Methinks Tyler Gernant has some work to do. Is there an editor in the house?
by Jay Stevens You won’t believe the latest from Bozeman’s PERC. Un-frickin’-believable. In it, Terry Anderson roasts the Indian Health Service: Unfortunately, Indians are not getting healthier under the federal system. In 2007, rates of infant mortality among Native Americans across the country were 1.4 times higher than non-Hispanic whites and rates of heart disease [...]
by jhwygirl ….go out to Dustin Frost and his family. By all accounts, he is an all around very nice guy. We forget in this political world sometimes that these are regular people that do this political stuff. Whether you are left or right, Republican or Democratic or Independent or Green or Libertarian..progressive or conservative [...]
by problembear is the worst over in the bush-crash yet? banks are still going under with lots more to come as the dominoes continue to fall several tiers beneath the too-big-to-fail giants propped up by gov’t bail-outs. but, i have no doubt that even though the FDIC is at its lowest level of solvency since [...]
by problembear this is reality for many of montana’s self-employed who cannot afford health insurance. are you listening senator baucus?
by JC Yes, this is the Rehberg crash scene. Click on the photo for a larger version. — Update: Doug points us to an update at the Flathead Beacon. It appears that some of the injuries are more serious than initially reported. I took an early “stable” report to mean that everybody was doing ok [...]
by Pete Talbot Came across this photo at Daily Kos. It’s the recently deceased Sen. Edward Kennedy in Miles City riding a bronc. Here’s some background.
by Pete Talbot Montana’s lone U.S. Representative was hospitalized in Kalispell after a boating accident on Flathead Lake near Big Fork, the AP reports. Details are sketchy but apparently state Senator Greg Barkus was also involved in the accident. And while I vehemently oppose both Barkus’ and Rehberg’s political philosophy, I hope their injuries aren’t [...]
Jay Stevens Jhwygirl brought up tort reform yesterday as a possible salve for rising health care costs, and quoted Governor Dean as saying it wasn’t in the bill because reformists didn’t want to fight too many enemies, including trial lawyers. Probably what’s more likely is that Dean knows tort reform is bogus, but acted friendly [...]
Jay Stevens Well, Left in the West is down…Soapblox problem, apparently…they’re working on it (I hope). In the meantime, here I am! (Update: Turns out it’s not a Soapblox problem, but just that LiTW needs to update its DNS record…anyway, meet you over there in 5 days…) Tester grows opaque over health-care reform and the [...]
by jhwygirl Tort reform seems to be a topic of discussion. It should be, and that’s what Howard Dean said to a person who asked “There’s $200 million over 10 years in savings if we had tort reform and nobody loses but the lawyers. Why have we not even considered that tonight in the discussion [...]
by jhwygirl I’ve added a rating widget for comments. Don’t know how it’s going to work, or whether anyone’ll use it…but there it is.
by JC “If the votes aren’t there, you’ll have to say you did the best you could and then you move on,” said Tester. Just move on, huh. What a leader. If you have half the Senate looking at each other, saying the votes aren’t there, expecting the next guy to stand up and take [...]
by JC lib⋅er⋅al [lib-er-uhl, lib-ruhl] –adjective 1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. 2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform. 3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism. 4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual [...]
by problembear http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/healthcare-reform-named-a_b_269690.html
by jhwygirl …are becoming increasingly clear for some, including Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM). Bingham is a member of what has been called The Gang of Six, the six members of the Senate Finance Committee that is headed up by our Sen. Baucus. The senators who are actually writing the piece of health care legislation that [...]
by Pete Talbot Sen. Jon Tester was in town Tuesday to listen to doctors and administrators from our two hospitals. What was the main complaint from these health care providers? Tort reform. Not public option or affordability or access for their patients but the high premiums they have to pay for malpractice insurance. And while [...]
by JC On the Future of the Democratic Party At the National Press Club, 1-12-05 … In the face of their tactics, we cannot move our party or our nation forward under the pale colors and timid voices. We cannot play Republican clones. If we do, we will lose again, and deserve to lose. As [...]
by jhwygirl Honestly, I am so busy lately that I barely have time for the news. That’s why I’m grateful for Twitter – at the least, I can grab headlines from sources I choose. KPAX reports that Sen. Jon Tester was in town this morning to meet with St. Patrick Hospital and Community Medical Center. [...]
by problembear 1. are you just telling us what we want to hear or are you telling us the truth when you tell us you want a public option too? 2. that’s nice that you want a public option too, but when are you going to start working for it?
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