Election Year Antics from Rep. Dennis Rehberg

March 28, 2010 in 2010 Election, Blogs, Denny Rehberg, Don Pogreba

by jhywgirl Well, this is rich, coming from our very own lone congressional Representative Dennis Rehberg – He’s swearing off earmarks for a year, “in a symbolic stance against federal spending.” Where was he his other 9 years in congress? Dennis, you see, loves to (first) put earmarks in bills, (next) vote against said bills [...]

Montana keeps the lights on

March 28, 2010 in Energy, Environment, Global warming, Montana

by Pete Talbot I had to go to that bastion of investigative journalism, Google news, to learn about it. Nothing in our local media — print, radio or TV — and nothing in the statewide press. The rest of the world seemed clued in: the Philippines, China, New Zealand, Kenya, Brazil; even Dallas, the progressive [...]

Ripping Open the Scab of Bigotry

March 28, 2010 in Regressives, Republicans, Tea Party, Terrorism

by JC Frank Rich cast some light into the dark morass of tea bagging and the GOP today in the New York Times article “The Rage Is Not About Health Care”: “If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of [...]