Senator for Saginaw Chippewas

Why Democrats Lose Elections, Part 1,432,112

21 October 2006

Democrats lose elections because each of the constituent groups in our big tent sometimes lose sight of the fact that, while a Democratic candidate may not be perfect, he or she is certainly better than the Republican option on a broad array of issues. A recent editor to the Helena IR illustrates this problem: I [...]

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An Open Letter to Charles Johnson

21 October 2006

Dear Chuck: Look, I feel badly for Senator Burns, too. No matter how despicable his politics have been and how shamefully he’s conducted himself, both as a Senator and a candidate, he’s probably actually a decent guy, who thinks he’s doing right. It’s got to be hard, watching your political career end before you are [...]

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Tester-Burns Debate in Great Falls, Part 1

20 October 2006

Wow. This is amateur hour in Great Falls. I bet the kids at C-Span are impressed with this show. Perhaps finding someone who knows how to use a microphone might have been a good strategy for the moderator. The panelists look terrified as well, which is fun. Burns Opening: Conrad pointedly doesn’t thank Tester in [...]

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Conrad’s Officially Losing It: A Secret Plan To Win the War!

17 October 2006

Senator Burns may finally have crossed the line from a lovable idiot to a full-blown conspiracy theorist. Pressed to reconcile his belief that the war in Iraq is going well and his new position that we need to make changes to win the war, Burns offered this defense: “He says our president don’t have a [...]

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Quick debate notes…

17 October 2006

I had Open House tonight at school and so I didn’t catch all of the debate, but I want to make a couple of quick notes of what I did hear: 1. Burns sounds awful. Between the stuttering, lack of subject-verb agreement or awkward phrasing, Burns is a shameful spokeman for Montana. 2. Why on [...]

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The Montana Standard’s High Standards for Journalistic Excellence Continue

15 October 2006

A week after the tired, ugly piece by a political hack attacking Jon Tester for his position on the Patriot Act, the Montana Standard is back in action, with an endorsement op-ed, from someone (Cindy Perdue-Dolan) who was taking her paycheck from Burns just over a year ago. What, his wife was too distracted by the [...]

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Burns and His Supporters: No Idea How Sleazy They Sound?

15 October 2006

Perhaps Burns and his supporters are so used to sleaze that they have lack the ability to even discern when something sounds inappropriate. A Billings Gazette profile of the retiring Senator says a lot about the way Burns and his cronies view the world: Surrounded by dozens of Semitool employees, the high-tech company’s founder and chief [...]

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Tester-Burns Helena Debate Roundup

13 October 2006

I don’t see any other blog coverage yet, so I will just post what I have found out the big, bad tubenet so far. The Helena IR, host of the debate, has posted a video of the debate.  They have broke it down by question, which I think is a great way to do it. [...]

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Conrad Burns is a bad, bad man.

12 October 2006

I think the most telling and awful moment in the debate came at the point that Charles Johnson says there has been so much negative, so, “Tell me something you admire or like about Conrad Burns and we’ll have him do the same.” Tester makes a cheesie joke about liking Conrad’s wife, but says he [...]

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Tester-Burns Helena Debate

12 October 2006

I am watching via C-Span tonight.  I have been impressed that C-Span has covered a lot of Montana events during this Senate election cycle. Tonight’s debate features just Tester and Burns which certainly changes the debate from last week’s situation in Bozeman. Ugh.  C-Span is showing the Burns “fear! fear! fear!” Patriot Act ad.  Thank [...]

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Live Blogging the Tester-Burns debate tonight…

12 October 2006

Don is teaching a class tonight and so I have pulled up a chair to the television and I will be live-blogging the event.  I decided not to attend live tonight becasue I was unsure of the wireless access and my guess it will be a backed house.  I have heard conflicting reports on the [...]

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Conrad Burns: Wasting Money One Postcard at a Time…

11 October 2006

This is absolutely and 100% out of control. Montana deserves better than this clown. Conrad Burns dropped me a postcard today.  This wasn’t the Burns campaign, mind you, this had Connie’s signature on it which means he is using his franking privilege.  You can see an Adobe Acrobat file of it here (Adobe Acrobat Required). [...]

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