Those Wacky Republicans

About the Senate’s Marijuana Vote

March 31, 2011

In nearly six years of blogging, I don’t know that I have ever promoted an old post back to the front page, but following the Senate’s 29-21 vote to repeal the voter-approved medical marijuana imitative, this post seems even more relevant. This session is a failure of leadership, vision, and governance. The GOP majority should [...]

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Does James Knox Really Support English-Only Laws?

March 11, 2011

Representative Knox, while describing his bill that would have allowed the state of Montana to renegotiate union contracts if proven that they would result in an increase in taxes: Knox said it’s not about breaking unions, but rather fiscal responsibility. “They’re only wanting what’s been promised to them, and I understand that,” he said, “we [...]

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Roger Koopman: My Kind of Republican

March 9, 2011

Roger Koopman knows conservatism. You might say he is conservatism in Montana, and I applaud his efforts to expose the Montana Legislature for the hotbed of Marxist-Leninism it has so clearly become in the past few months. Koopman is compiling a scorecard of Legislature for his Montana Conservative Alliance in which he categorizes members as [...]

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What Motivates Derek Skees? A Fear of Micro Chips, Apparently

March 3, 2011

A source forwarded this possibility, taken from the Representative’s Facebook profile: Of all the weeks for me to work on making sure that my rhetoric wasn’t demeaning to the mentally ill. Perhaps a member of the media should ask Representative Skees why he didn’t introduce a bill to ban nefarious government microchipping. I’d love to [...]

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We’re Secesh Here!

February 22, 2011

Marnee Banks has the story of the critical, job-creating proposal offered by Representative Michael More today: Montana sovereignty. MT State Representative Michael More (R-Gallatin Gateway) is carrying the resolution… that Montana and its people have the sole and exclusive right to govern themselves as a free, sovereign and independent state. More said, “The problem that [...]

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A James Knox Update: Attacking and Hacking?

February 21, 2011

Representative Knox has been out of the news the past few weeks at the session, but I presumed his silencehad been to conduct a comprehensive examination of the citizenship status of his fellow legislators. It turns out I was wrong: Mr. Knox has been busy attacking other Republicans, suggesting that his “followers” harass a critic, [...]

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House Bill 456: Another Terrible Idea

February 21, 2011

Perhaps the home school coalition should visit a high school or have graduated from one before they write legislation regarding education. House Bill 456, if passed, will take a reasonable balance between the interests of sensitive parents and the reality of education and turn it into an unworkable mess of lawsuits and distraction from education. [...]

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Wendy Warburton Makes an Argument Even Krayton Kerns Wouldn’t

February 2, 2011

From Cody Bloomsburg’s coverage at the Capitol: Warburton replied that denying employees the right to keep guns in their vehicles  is akin to preventing them from having Bibles in their cars. But John Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for NorthWestern Energy, wasn’t buying that. “Nobody has ever been killed by a Bible going off accidentally,” he said. [...]

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