From CNN’s “Can Lincoln’s playbook help Obama in the years ahead?” article
But as the Obama transition team continues to assemble the new administration, the question remains: Can the president-elect help heal a sharply divided nation by using a page out of Lincoln’s political playbook?
After all, Lincoln, the [...]
Now granted I opposed the first bailout. At least that package has some reasonable grounding in economic reality. Our financial system had not faced a crisis such as we are now, ever. Fine.
But why should the American taxpayer futilely attempt to save the domestic auto manufacturers? For the past decades [...]
Some people think that your vote should be a secret. That it is no one’s business but your own who your support. But I don’t think there is any need to keep your political choices a secret, so here’s how my ballot shook out.
President: John McCain/Sarah Palin (R)
Shocking, I know. [...]
In political scandals, if it qualifies for a “gate” prefix then it’s a big deal. Troopergate is a scandal that has plagued VP nominee Sarah Palin since the moment it was mentioned. But after two months of back and forth accusations, Palin has been cleared by an independent panel.
[...]Many Republicans don’t like John McCain, but I am a true believer in the Senator from Arizona.
Going into the Republican primary, McCain was nobody’s favorite. Romney was the pundit’s favorite. Huckabee was the conservative favorite. And Giuliani was beloved by many who thought he represented the moderate-fiscal conservatives.
Giuliani blew the [...]
I have blogged several times about the reporting (I use that term as loosely as possible) at The Montana Standard. My complaints range from a complete lack of journalistic integrity (like allowing crime reporters to also write features on the victims during the trial) to shamelessly lazy reporting.
Their most [...]
In a campaign where Sen. Obama has repeatedly stressed the need for bipartisan cooperation and diplomacy, his campaign staff apparently haven’t gotten the memo. This weekend, reporters from three newspapers who had endorsed McCain were unceremoniously tossed from Obama’s campaign plane. Coincidence? The LA Times doesn’t think so.
Sen. Barack [...]
This story just cracks me up.
Last week, several Butte residents received phone calls from a firm conducting a poll regarding the local race for Chief Executive (Mayor) between incumbent Paul Babb and Schweitzer’s favorite “pregnant nun” Mary McMahon. The poll questioners did not identify which company they were from [...]
There was an interesting article on Real Clear Politics, today. That contained this practically forgotten gem.
Here’s Obama in his own words to the Chicago Sun-Times on November 4, 2004: “I was elected yesterday. . . . I have never set foot in the U.S. Senate. I’ve never worked in [...]
On Saturday, I flew down to Denver to visit some relatives. And while flying out of the Butte Airport has never been terribly convenient, TSA has now made it downright infuriating.
The airport has no X-Ray machine for checked baggage so, all the luggage is hand searched. Because it’s just so [...]
A lady walks into my office today, and tells me that her children are going to be democrats for Halloween.
“I’m sorry?”
They’re going to trick or treat from 5 til 10 and then we’re going to make them give half of their candy away.
Second joke…
Why should you vote republican? Because we [...]
Jack over at Western Word is my favorite blogger in the Dextrasphere. He never ceases to amaze me with the material he finds to write about.
Today, he had a really interesting a post about why he is choosing Waterman for Chief Justice. Within the post, he included a link [...]
On the Fourth of July, Butte Silver-Bow went out of our way for Barack Obama. Police officers, firefighters, Search and Rescue members and many other county employees gave up their holiday to provide security for his visit. Volunteers threw a birthday party for his daughter and made sure that [...]
A brief programming note, things have been slow here at BSC for about a month now. Cody has fallen into married life and failed to leave a trail of bread crumbs to find his way out. As for Brad, he insists that he’ll be back soon. So until then, I [...]
While I do believe in party unity, sometimes it’s time to call a spade a spade. Michelle Bachmann is certifiable, and I am thrilled that the NRCC is pulling its monies out of her race.
If we do lose seats in this election, let’s hope we lose those people who have [...]
Remember Mark Foley? The closeted gay man making sexual overtures toward underage Congressional pages while decrying homosexuality and pedophilia on the floor of the House of Representatives. Of course, you remember him.
Well the Democrat who replace him as the Representative for Florida’s 16th District, Tim Mahoney, has been accused [...]
The Montana GOP is taking a lot of heat for asking the state of Montana to ensure that the lists of registered voters - the list of voters that will have a say in how Montanans choose to be governed - is accurate. The Gazette goes so far as to [...]
And behold, in the end times…
Isaiah 11:6 - And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Heh. Maybe this economic situation [...]
I often complain about the Montana Standard. Their incompetent local reporting, their complete reliance on the AP and Lee Newspaper machine for State coverage, their piss poor copy editing. You know small things.
But their latest screw-up made me crack up with laughter.
This photo is from this [...]
In my previous post, I discussed how Barack Obama is choosing to keep to the campaign trail versus heading back to Washington to help craft the bailout legislation. I mentioned two reasons for his decision, but saved a third for a seperate post because I thought it deserved more focus.
The [...]
Yesterday, when Barack Obama started touting his plan for the bailout of America’s investment banks, I asked one question: If you’re plan is so great, and you really are the leader that your supporters claim, then why aren’t you back in Washington making sure that the final legislation mirrors your [...]
As nakedly partisan hits go, this one is pretty amazing. It seems that Obama got UAW Boss Ron Gettelfinger to attack McCain for buying foreign cars:
“The last thing we need is a presidential candidate who undermines autoworkers, and these days it seems that John McCain is doing just exactly [...]
I’ve been remiss in not regularly reading a new addition to the right-wing Montana blog world. Right in the Rockies is doing some great work - especially when it comes to our ethically challenged bully of a Governor.
So why not add Right in the Rockies to your [...]
It has been heartening reading how Huntley Project and the surrounding communities have rallied together following Thursday night’s fire. It is good to see Montanans taking care of one another.
“It’s just amazing, just utterly amazing,” Santy said. “That’s how people respond. You hear so many negatives about the [...]
A judge in Washington, DC has overturned a rule that would have allowed limited access by snowmobiles to Yellowstone National Park during the winter months.
Recreation advocates had ceded a lot of ground, agreeing to limit access to commercially-guided ventures, investing in cleaner, quieter machines and capping the number of [...]
The Missoula Independent!
Election tampering makes Baby Thomas Jefferson cry, and, to steal a line from Schweitzer’s speech, makes the American public as nervous as pregnant nuns.
Haha!! Baby Thomas Jefferson! Comedy gold (see, Governor Schweitzer, this is how you tell a joke).
Read the whole think so you don’t miss this [...]
Astroturf blogger Lamnidae has made a crusade of criticizing Republicans for daring to fill political roles. Of course, Big Sky Cairn has already taken her to task for her hypocrisy.
It’s ironic, though not unexpected, that on a day when the Great Falls Tribune [...]
It seems that Monica Lindeen is well on her way to being a bi-annual election day embarrassment.
Rather than take time to tell us why she is qualified to be State Auditor, she decided to go negative. Understandable as Lindeen has no qualifications for the job.
Just in case her attacks [...]
Hey guys, I know you’re busy so I’ll keep this brief.
Don’t let up on Governor Schweitzer’s boasting about election tampering for one single second. You got some great press, but keep going. Find a new angle for next week. Be relentless. There is a lot of garbage buried in this [...]
Over the past week I have learned a couple things. If you are a Democrat, insulting Catholics and bragging about election tampering is hilarious. If Brian Schweitzer, or his appointee Larry Anderson’s, word was not enough all I had to do was turn to our friends in the sinistra-sphere for [...]
From a comment by Oscillating Fan here, someone did some legwork to discover exactly how much Schweitzer-interests have donated to Attorney General “I Will Never Investigate Fellow Democrats” Mike McGrath for his bid to ascend to the station of Chief Justice in Montana. To say this guy is [...]
I was a little worried that Jay Stevens would be leaving Montana before I got a chance to use the Blue Jay Watch logo again. Fortunately for me - and unfortunately for anyone who thinks that truth ought to be valued - he isn’t leaving [...]
Missoulapolis met with Ron Waterman, the man that Mike McGrath is going to be conceding to in November. I meant to go, but I went to the wrong Montana Club (d’oh!) and by the time I realized, I’d already ordered lunch. Not to fret, Carol posted her thoughts. Some [...]
When Governor Brian Schweitzer boasted to a room full of trial lawyers that he was turning dials to deliver the Montana Senate Election to fellow Democrat Jon Tester (over Republican Conrad Burns who beat him in in an earlier election), he claims he was joking. Fine.
But whether he was [...]
We knew that McGrath and Schweitzer share a party and that for the Montana Democrats that’s a bit like being a Corleone. But it turns out there’s a pretty significant financial link too. Via a release by the College Republicans:
Democrat Attorney General Mike McGrath declined to investigate Schweitzer’s activities. Schweitzer [...]
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer is under a lot of fire. His all-Democrats-on-deck response thus far has been pretty telling. There have been two major lines of response from Schweitzer and the Montana Democrats:
1) Brian Schweitzer was just joking.
This was the original tack taken by the Governor’s office. What a [...]
On Wednesday, when I left Butte for a business trip, almost no one was talking about the Governor’s comments. Today, I was waiting in line at my favorite pasty place and it was all people could talk about. People seemed particularly upset about the tenor of the Governor’s pitiful attempt [...]
The good Governor Brian Schweitzer has been building quite a resume of ethically questionable activities. It’s funny because while the press and on-the-record Democrats all say he’s such a nice, regular guy the story changes when the conversations go off the record. People that have to actually work with [...]
Attorney General McGrath was flying low and may have been elected on sheer name recognition in November, but like Mary McMahon, it seems Schweitzer’s mouth/ego combo has thrown him into the unflattering spotlight and now he’s got a political bull-eye square on his back.
He’s not really a victim though. He [...]
New West, who asked the first questions on this story, has followed up with some quotes from our Attorney General Mike McGrath - who also happens to be a Lawyer (you can hear a bunch of Lawyers laughing and clapping as Schweitzer brags about his actions in the audio [...]
I first noticed it immediately after Obama did the Bill O’Reilly interview. The One is aging right before our eyes. It’s especially noticeable on his head. Lots of gray.
While I think it’s probably the stress of a 2-year campaign cycle, I can’t help but wonder if his handlers decided he [...]
There really is a lot of repugnant material in this speech Governor Schweitzer game to his Trial Lawyer buddies (and one enemy with a tape recorder). The Gazette breaks down some of the more vile examples.
1) He advocated the intimidation of Republican Poll watchers by threatening them with [...]
I’m incensed. And I’m not the only one (although thanks to MTPundit, who posted this story three or four times before it got any traction in the Dextrasphere, I was one of the first). Brian Schweitzer has had a bad week.
As someone who “guaranteed” a victory for Jon Tester [...]
Conservatives are often faced with a related duo of frustrating facts when they deal with liberal friends. 1) By virtue of the fact that they are conservative, the liberal will presume that the cause of that ideology is some combination of stupidity or ignorance and 2) in their attempt to [...]
Rasmussen reports that McCain’s lead in Montana has grown to a staggering eleven points - well outside the margin of error but within expectations for Montanans not trying to secure posh positions in the Obama Administration once their term limits are up. Montana Headlines does [...]
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