Those Wacky Republicans

A James Knox Update: Attacking and Hacking?

21 February 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

21 February 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

2 February 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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South Carolina’s New Strom Thurmond and Your New Republican Party

3 October 2010

Senator Jim DeMint has an unusual view of civil rights for someone not born in 1902. He thinks that federal protections against discrimination are really best left to local school boards and states. What kind of decisions would those states make? In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing “traditional marriage,” according [...]

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Meet a Defender of Sexual Morality: Tim Ravndal

4 September 2010

There’s been a lot of great reporting in the past week all over the state (other than the Lee Newspapers) about the childish, hateful rhetoric coming out of the Republican/Tea Party coalition. Originally reported by D. Gregory Smith at his blog From Eternity to Here, one can read the kind of thinking that the leader [...]

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More Tea Party Magic: The Letter of the Week

21 August 2010

The best letter to the editor in Montana this week goes to Julian Lemaster from Billings, who knows his federal taxation policies. This choice excerpt only captures a portion of the magic: Medicare, Medicaid, U.S. Postal Service, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the list goes on. Social Security is not socialism because workers pay into [...]

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Where to Start with this Nonsense: Sex Ed is TYRANNY!

21 August 2010

The Republicans sure know where to find some stellar candidates for office these days. Running for House District 82 is Kristi Allan-Gailushas, who has filed suit against the Helena School District and the Office of Public Instruction for the proposed health education curriculum. Her suit is yet another demonstration of the tantrum-throwing nonsense that characterizes [...]

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This is Your Modern Republican Party

13 August 2010

Who votes for these people? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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What’s Wrong with Dave Lewis?

9 July 2010

I honestly can’t understand what’s going through the mind of Dave Lewis lately. While I can’t say that I often agreed with his politics, he seemed like a fairly reasonable member of the Republican caucus less inclined to the right wing fantasies of Ed Butcher and his kind. Matt Singer points out that Lewis put [...]

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Dennis Rehberg: The Dumbest Member of Congress (No, Seriously)

4 July 2010

My inbox this morning featured another insightful poll from Representative Rehberg, one no doubt designed to illicit a response from his friends in the Tea Party critical of American education, suggesting that American history has been hijacked by radicals: A knowledge of history – where we came from and how we got here – is [...]

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Some Overheated Rhetoric from the Right Here in Montana

29 March 2010

It’s hard to know what’s the worst element of this delightful piece of fiction by Montana novelist and right wing blogger M.L. Busman—its assassination fantasy, overwrought prose,or its Fox News endorsement—but it certainly seems to capture the prevailing spirit of the demographically and educationally challenged right wing in this country. A few excerpts can’t really [...]

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Do They Make Tea Flavored Kool-Aid?

21 March 2010

I remember the excitement of making a nice big pitcher of Lemon/Lime Kool-Aid at my grandmother’s house.  In retrospect, the cup of sugar probably wasn’t ideal for my health, but at least the flavors were delicious. What I don’t remember, however, was ever enjoying a nice big glass of tea flavored Kool-Aid. Apparently, they’re making [...]

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