Montana Press, Democrats got taken for a ride by a Pig
Often times I’ve served up criticism of the Montana press, for being apathetic, lazy, stupid, incompetent, corrupt, and, in some cases, conservative leaning due to right-wing corporate ownership. Well,...
View ArticleMaking Congress More Transparent
As I travel across the state and listen to New Yorkers, there is no question how worried people are about the economy -- if the job they have today will be here tomorrow, if the job they lost is ever...
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Richard Shelby's Pork Tram Takes Taxpayers For $2.6 Million Ride
What do you get when you cross so-called "deficit hawk" Senator Richard Shelby and a $2.6 million North Alabama pork project? You get an empty tourist tram that traveled for 4 weekends - on a...
View ArticleMax Baucus Throws MT Dem Candidate Under the Bus
I try to give Max Baucus the benefit of the doubt when I can, but he doesn't make it easy. The question that young progressives across Montana who are leafleting and canvassing and working hard this...
View ArticleMcConnell and DeMint dispute earmark elimination
One guy says: Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said he and his Republican colleagues will discuss an earmark ban when Congress returns to Washington but gave scant support to the proposal. ......
View ArticleFlip-flopping Rand Paul now supports earmarks
Let the teahadist backpedaling begin ... From senate candidate Rand Paul's website: Rand Paul has made a ban on wasteful earmark spending in Washington D.C. one of the key points of his campaign ......
View ArticleRepublicans who remain silent on earmarks will be 'presumed guilty'
As the earmark death match between Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) continues to unfold, and with the vote on DeMint's proposal to ban earmarks scheduled for next Tuesday, the...
View ArticleJames Inhofe: Liberals 'brainwashed' Americans about earmarks
The public battle between Mitch McConnell (R) and Jim DeMint (R) over an across-the-board earmarks ban will come to a head next Tuesday when the Republican Conference is scheduled to vote on the...
View ArticleJames Inhofe advocates for earmarks
In the battle over an across-the-board earmark ban that is being waged between establishment Republicans led by Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and the teahadist wing of the party led by Jim DeMint (R-SC),...
View ArticleObama urges earmark elimination in weekly address
I agree with those Republican and Democratic members of Congress who’ve recently said that in these challenging days, we can’t afford what are called earmarks. These are items inserted into spending...
View ArticleMcConnell blinks on earmarks
After a protracted public fight over an across-the-board ban on earmarks proposed by Jim DeMint (R-SC), and scheduled for a secret vote when the Republican Conference meets tomorrow, Mitch McConnell...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann opposes earmarks, except for her district
Earmarks bad! Bachmann, along with Minnesota Republican Rep. John Kline, has taken a pledge not to accept earmarks. Bachmann, who did solicit some earmarks when she first came to Congress, has been...
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Cubs owner decries, seeks earmarks: A case study in teabagger hypocrisy
Meet Joe Ricketts. He's the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade and patriarch of the Ricketts clan that assumed ownership and operation of the Chicago Cubs a little more than a year ago. In addition...
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The big "but": Earmarks for me but not for thee
Senate Republicans officially joined with their counterparts in the House yesterday to support a moratorium on earmarks, in a thinly-veiled attempt to bolster their reputations as fiscal conservatives,...
View ArticleLetters To Tuesday
Dear Teabaggers: I love you people. You never cease to amuse me. But, even looking past all the obvious reasons to deride you and mock you, and generally get a good belly laugh from your overbloated...
View ArticleThe magically delicious magic of the GOP earmark ban
Cross-posted at Eclectablog.com. The Republicans are pissed. Pissed, I tell ya. They are PISSED about how earmarks are positively wrecking our national budget. They are so pissed that last year they...
View ArticleMitt Romney on earmarks, circa 2006
Imagine my surprise to find that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was circulating a petition to ban earmarks. He is calling on the public to support Senator Jim DeMint: Senator DeMint is...
View ArticleAnti-earmarker Jon Kyl slips $200 million earmark into bill
Surprise, surprise: WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks -- money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest -- was short-lived. Only three days after GOP...
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Do Republicans hate earmarks because they hate Congress?
An article in The Hill makes a familiar argument about earmarks: Even if the full Senate doesn't pass an earmark moratorium, a refusal by lawmakers to direct funding to their congressional districts...
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