The Montana TEA Party Hypocrite of the Week Award Goes To…

Cyndi Baker (left) and Rep. Cleve Loney R-Great Falls (right) at a TEA Party Rally in Great FallsGreat Falls City Commission candidate Cyndi Baker, who campaigned against school district spending, then turned around and sought a district paycheck.

But it’s worse then that, as the Great Falls Tribune reports, Baker tried to threaten the local government …

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Americans for Prosperity Sends Its Luxury Bus Over the Cliff

It is every astroturf special interest front group’s worst nightmare: the moment when, despite their best efforts to carefully orchestrate each facet of the campaign, reality comes crashing down–sending the movement careening into crackpot-ville for good.

This is that moment …

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Montana TEA Party Leaders Call for Violence Against Political Opponents

The leader of the Billings Montana Shrugged TEA Party and a TEA Party Republican state lawmaker have been caught posting remarks online that imply support for shooting their political opponents.

The incident comes on the heels of another Montana TEA …

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TEA Party Anti-Jobs Mentality On Display

Interesting doings over at the Whitefish Facebook community Informed Whitefish, where TEA Party Republican Derek Skees (R-Whitefish Kalispell) has blanketed the site over the past few days with his unique TEA Party views.

Unfortunately it seems instead of getting …

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Republican Compares Montana Citizens to Hijackers

Montana Republican Jeff Essmann’s campaign for Governor hasn’t exactly taken off,  and there is no sign of things getting better for him any time soon.

Take his recently uncovered remarks to the TEA Party convention in Helena during the 2011 …

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Whitefish Leader to Challenge TEA Party Poster Boy Derek Skees

Good news for democrats today from the Whitefish Pilot.  A Whitefish attorney, city council member, and judge has announced he will run for the Whitefish House seat (HD 4) currently held by TEA party Republican Rep. Derek Skees, (R-…

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Knox Bound for Nashville

Rep. James Knox (R-TEA Billings)The man who brought us every type of racist, sexist, and homophobic bill or vote this legislative session (as well as other wacky tea baggery and antics) is taking his act to Nashville, probably not as a country western star.…

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Political Quick Hits

TEA Party Cancelled Due to Lack of Turnout

In spite of promised appearances by both Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, the national TEA Party rally planned for this fall has been cancelled due to lack of interest. So much for …

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A Tea Party Leader As Dumb As They Come

Tea Partiers are not an intelligent lot.

A tipster recently emailed me about an incident in Bozeman. As the tipster points out, the incident was actually nothing more than a guest appearing on a radio show hosted by a Tea …

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A Question for Teabaggers About Rehberg’s Earmark Alternative

Denny Rehberg. There's whisky to be drunk.I would have loved to see Dennis Rehberg’s mustache twitch as he read this story about himself, headlined “House earmarks morph into ‘programmatic requests.’”

First, a quick 101: A “programmatic request” is simply a request that a member of Congress …

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Moment of Sanity for the GOP

At the Montana GOP Convention last weekend, Republican faithful rejected a slate of TEA party people running for Republican state party office, showing that when it comes to the TEA party, for the moment anyway sanity has prevailed.  GOP gubernatorial …

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Rachel Maddow Show Features Schweitzer VETO Branding

Says Maddow ” this is so much better than politics has a right to be.”  Here’s the video:

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Fox News: “Bat-crap” Crazy Legislature Could Keep MT Gov Seat with Dems

More bad new for republican gubernatorial hopefuls this week. Voter backlash in reaction to the TEA party legislature, Fox News reports:

“could keep the governorship of the Big Sky state in Democratic hands.”

The crazy bills that the Montana …

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