US Politics

Dennis Rehberg Changes His Mind Again

October 28, 2011

It’s pretty difficult to keep up with where Representative Dennis Rehberg is standing on issues these days. Whether it’s federal control of our land, the GI Bill, SCHIP, the Patriot Act or REAL ID, Representative Rehberg seems to demonstrate the same consistency on issues one expects from Mitt Romney. The latest? His position on a [...]

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Rawls on Wall Street—An Excellent Idea

October 21, 2011

Really interesting read in the New York Times about the future of the Occupy Wall Street movement and how a little John Rawls might help: Despite providing a remarkable venue for what Al Gore called a “primal scream of democracy,” Occupy Wall Street is leveraged too heavily on the rhetoric of rage rather than reciprocity. [...]

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Libyan Intervention: Another Example of Rational Humanitarian Foreign Policy

October 21, 2011

I don’t write a lot about foreign policy, simply because I think there are far more intelligent and knowledgeable people out there writing much more cogent analysis, but it’s hard to ignore the reflexive criticism of all things Obama that comes from certain elements of the principled left. Although I’m no longer surprised that some [...]

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Rehberg and Tester on Wilderness: A Week in Review

October 16, 2011

While some maintain that there is no difference between Senator Tester and Representative Rehberg when it comes to protecting Montana’s wild lands, the past week provides a stark contrast in their approaches. A letter to the Bozeman Chronicle from the Montana Sierra Club reveals that Rehberg’s priorities are to strip Montana lands from landmark environmental [...]

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In Which I Agree with The TEA Party (Some of Them Anyway)

September 28, 2011

The Hill reports that House Republicans are once again arguing to replace dollar bills with dollar coins: Rep. David Schweikert (Ariz.) and two other House Republicans — including supercommittee co-chairman Jeb Hensarling (Texas) — introduced legislation last week aimed at retiring the paper dollar. Schweikert said his bill would save billions of dollars over the [...]

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The Profound Failure of the Koch Brothers Rally at the Montana Capitol

August 18, 2011

Luc de Clapier once wrote that “prosperity makes few friends.” Never was that adage on greater display than this evening at the Montana capitol, when the Koch Brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity tour managed to gather a crowd of maybe twenty people, a “crowd” easily doubled by people opposing their corporate, anti-Montana agenda. I’m glad that [...]

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Best Evidence I’ve Seen That College Grades Matter

August 18, 2011

From Rick Perry’s College transcript: Yes, that is a D in Principles of Economics. No wonder he’s leading the GOP field. 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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Hypocrisy of Rehbergian Proportions

August 11, 2011

In the course of politics, it’s probably inevitable that some level of hypocrisy is to be expected. In the pursuit of votes, every politician probably has to take positions that are less than consistent at times, but there are few who measure up to Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, in the brazenness of their hypocrisy. Rehberg’s [...]

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