Serving Up Snark Since 2005
From the category archives:
A sleazy push poll and an awkward lie to cover it up.
Taylor Brown seems uncertain that his career as a commercial hack for used car dealerships might not be enough to convince people to vote for him, or his giant cowboy hat, so the Montana Republican Party decided (entirely without consulting the giant hat of [...]
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It looks like Dennis Rehberg’s old friend Kevin Ring is in some serious trouble, and about to become a tempting target for federal prosecutors looking into Congressional corruption:
But few bothered to identify a shadowy figure in the documents, the unnamed and apparently as-yet-unindicted-co-conspirator “Lobbyist C” who, some Abramoff-watchers say privately, may be the link to [...]
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An old crook never goes away:
Former senator Conrad Burns of Montana is the latest example showing the loophole in the new ethics and lobbying reforms that were enacted last month.
A few days after the legislation became law, Burns strolled into the weekly Wednesday meeting of Senate conservatives in the Mansfield Room just a few [...]
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The Justice Department is one class act. Once the U.S. attorneys and others began to suggest that the firings were not appropriate, the Bush DoJ began threatening the former attorneys with reprisal. One of the documents released by the Justice Department included an e-mail from H.E. 'Bud' Cummins to the group of US [...]
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I have been watching the news around the fired US attorneys with great interest, if for no other reason than it helps build a clearer picture of the power-hungry White House. Today, one of the news sites I read dug up this article from the Boston Globe nearly two years ago. Sound familiar?
A US [...]
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