GOP Game Change?

Montana Republican Neil Livingstone say he and his running mate are now prepared to being “pouring more of their own funds” money to win the Governor’s seat, the Flathead Beacon reports.   Livingstone is clearly hoping that his personal wealth …

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Livingstone Tried to Get Qaddafi to Hire Him, for $10 Million

In one of the most bizarre episodes in the history of Montana gubernatorial campaigns, GOP candidate Neil Livingstone last week was revealed by the New York Times to have sent a letter to Muammar Qaddafi, offering, for the small price …

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New Analysis: GOP Ginned Up Fake Budget Crisis to Undercut Jobs, Schools

Republican legislators conspired to gin up a fake budget crisis to undercut jobs, public school classrooms, and seniors.   A new analysis by Tax Analyst [pdf], out this week, spells out the whole debacle in detail.   Here’s what went …

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Asian Massage: Conservative GOP Councilman Might Get Unhappy Ending

A hard-core, conservative, Republican religious politician, getting caught doing business with an erotic massage parlor? Yawn. That’s become such a routine event in our society, it’s barely even newsworthy.

But somebody must report this mundane stuff, so it falls to …

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Western Traditions Partnership Electioneering: You Be the Judge

The Billings Gazette is reporting today on the upcoming Sept 21 Montana Supreme Court hearing on the shadow group Western Tradition Partnership (who ditched its tainted name and became American Traditions Partnership under a barrage of bad press). Western TP …

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Compare and Contrast

Rather than looking to end the massive subsidies for big oil companies as a responsible way to ensure big corporations are carrying their responsibility toward reducing the debt, incumbent Congressman Rehberg has actually voted against a measure that would end giveaways for big …

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Rehberg: Drugging a Woman and Then Having Sex With Her Unconscious Body Ain’t Rape

Denny Rehberg. There's whisky to be drunk.Congressman Rehberg’s assault on women reached a new low this week when he voted to prevent the following situations from “counting” as rape: women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped, minors impregnated by adults, and women who say …

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Montana Legislature Moves to Add Semen to Marijuana Prohibition Bill

[This hilarious spoof article has been making the email rounds -author unknown. I have posted the spoof in it's entirety below for your reading pleasure.]

Sen. Essman adds last minute semen ban to marijuana legislation

By CHARLES S. JOHNSON IR …

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POST SESSION PREVIEW: GOP Primed With Unique Leadership Pool for 2012

The GOP has realized it is out of bad ideas and is preparing to abandon ship.  So with the end of the session near, it is time for gubernatorial candidates to start campaigning in earnest.

The primary candidates will need …

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UPDATED: Rawjinos Give a Hand to Dems, to Get Construction Bill Through State House

A RAWNJINO, (pronounced rawn-JEE-no) is a Right Wing Nutjob In Name Only. This is a Republican who froths and foams and rants and raves 24/7 about the evils of government spending, but then quietly finds a way to steer some …

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UPDATED: Clothing Line Mocking Montana Legislature Debuts Online

Job creation at last? The designer behind a new line of haute apparel has drawn her or his inspiration from the Montana Legislature.

Although Montana legislative session is winding to an end, (if only the GOP would stop taking vacations

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Schweitzer Burns GOP with Red-Hot Cattle Iron

It was a bad day for a few hapless Republican legislators in Montana Wednesday. These young guns from the GOP, who had excitedly volunteered, upon entering the legislature, to carry some of the flagship legislation for the Tea Party, got …

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Analysis: GOP’s “Get Your Women’s Health Care at Walgreens” Strategy Backfires

The national and state budget negotiations are shaping up to be a recipe for disaster for the GOP, largely because the  Republican Party is being held hostage by hard-line right-wing forces: the tea party obsessed with cutting the budget (even though …

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