crazed GOP state senator targets stream access

March 4, 2011 in Montana

by problembear of all the crazy tea party bills seeping through the walls of our state capitol these days, MT state Senator Debbie Barrett from Dillon takes the insanity prize for going up against Montana’s long tradition of stream access for all its citizens. dysfunctional debbie and some guy named wellburn have cozied up to [...]

ditto-heads MT Legislative scoreboard

March 4, 2011 in Montana

by problembear it seems that this has been a long long long game this session… and it doesn’t look like it’ll end soon. for all their trash talk this session, the Surly Teaparty Loungers seem to be waning a bit in the bottom of the 20th inning. so far, they have scored one on 15 [...]

Still More – Yes More – National Attention on the MT GOP

March 4, 2011 in 2011 Legislative session, Environment, Global warming, Montana, Regressives

by jhwygirl We first wrote about Montana’s HD Rep. Joe Read a few weeks ago. Read, as you may recall, has proposed a bill – HB549 – that says that global warming is good for Montana. The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert picked up on Read’s bill, and did a really nice segment the other night. [...]