Naked on the Morning After, the Real Mitt

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Sunday November 11, 2012 · 7:58 PM PST

2012/11/11 · 19:58

The best reason for voting against Mitt Romney wasn’t revealed until the day after the election, when we were given a glimpse of the would-be emperor without clothes.

Romney, we learned, is a proud denizen of the Conservative Echo Chamber, the walled-in neighborhood in which tens of millions of right-wing Americans (and an increasingly scary number of Republican politicians) live their political and social lives. They consume right-wing propaganda as if it were factual news, and live in a state of blissful ignorance, disparaging the greater national dialogue.

As was widely reported on the day after his loss, he and his team were shocked, truly stupefied in fact, when the race was called for Obama early in the evening. Why?

Montana Cowgirl

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Saturday October 13, 2012 · 9:53 PM PDT

2012/10/13 · 21:53

Is Now Running for State’s Top Energy Post; Says His Critics are Bigoted

Bases Beliefs on “Scientific Investigation”

I was reminded today about an amusing yet distressing incident in 2006, when Roger Koopman told a crowd of school children in Bozeman that the earth is between 4,000 and 6,000 years old.

Koopman was then a state legislator. He is now running for the Montana Public Service Commission, which has regulatory authority over many of Montana’s energy and climate policies, and other policy areas that are supposed to be informed by science.

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Wednesday October 03, 2012 · 8:00 PM PDT

2012/10/03 · 20:00

Leaving an entire state with mouths agape, a right-wing federal judge in Montana today ruled that all campaign contribution limits for political candidates are---unconstitutional.

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Friday September 21, 2012 · 7:56 PM PDT

2012/09/21 · 19:56

If you had told me, a year ago, that the 2012 presidential campaign would feature somebody wearing blackface,

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 7:22 PM PDT

2012/09/18 · 19:22

Tim Fox, the Montana Republican lunatic who is running for attorney general despite having never done anything other than defend drunk drivers and call for rape victims to have the rapists’ babies, has just gotten some national Republican donors to buy $700,000 of TV advertising on his behalf.

This is the post-Citizens United world. Welcome to it. Obviously, the money is anonymous so we can’t with certainty say who it’s from. The money comes from RSLC, a Republican front group for Energy companies, pharmaceutical companies, timber companies, the Koch brothers, abortion opponents and the like.

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Friday September 07, 2012 · 5:44 PM PDT

2012/09/07 · 17:44

The former House Republican Minority Whip of the Montana Legislature and Montana state chair of ALEC, Dennis Himmelberger, is in jail.

The Billings Gazette reported today that Himmelberger was sentenced to jail for contempt of court after he refused to refund the rental security deposit of a 93-year-old tenant.

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Tuesday August 21, 2012 · 10:17 PM PDT

2012/08/21 · 22:17

While the rest of the Republican party was busy putting as much distance as possible between themselves Todd Akin, the Missouri GOP candidate that said if women were not making up the rape their bodies would "shut down" the pregnancy, Montana Republicans lined up to express their support for his views.

Former Congressman Rick Hill was the first to stand with Todd Akin. Hill, who clearly has a woman problem, came out yesterday in support of Akin's position on forcing rape victims to carry their rapists' pregnancies to term. Hill supports it.

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Wednesday August 15, 2012 · 5:51 PM PDT

2012/08/15 · 17:51

I just learned this a few days ago, but Koch industries is listed as one Max Baucus’s largest donors. The company is listed as having contributed $40,000 to Baucus since 2005. That puts him in an exclusive club with Paul Ryan, Michelle Bachmann, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and Eric Cantor, who have all taken more than $30,000 from the Kochs during the last four campaign cycles.

And it’s eight times what the Koch’s have given to Denny Rehberg, according to FEC reports.

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Friday August 10, 2012 · 5:28 AM PDT

2012/08/10 · 05:28

A new report is out this week with the news that a Montana Republican who started an anti-Obama military-themed PAC is under fire for leaving the SEALs after questions about "improprieties" surrounding his Defense Department travel claims.

Ryan Zinke, a former state legislator, had run as the Lt. Gov candidate under international prostitute guide-book author Neil Livingstone, who became somewhat of an internet joke. The team was unsuccessful in securing the GOP nomination.

According to this article, former military officials say that:

Zinke left the Navy SEALs acrimoniously after being accused of improprieties surrounding his travel reports in the late ‘90s.
“There were ethics issues around his travel,” a former Navy SEAL and senior Defense Department official told BuzzFeed. “He was using government travel to visit his home in Montana. He got caught. That’s why he left the SEALs.”

Zinke did not contest the allegation, but suggested that the travel dispute is hardly major a blot on his service record.

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Wednesday July 25, 2012 · 3:59 PM PDT

2012/07/25 · 15:59

You could have an original Gov. Schweitzer Veto Board in your office.

A Montana non-profit is auctioning one of the only remaining veto boards created by Montana Gov.Brian Schweitzer when he vetoed a record number of TEA Party, frivolous, and unconstitutional bills during the 2011 legislative session.

Indeed, the TEA Partiers' dreams of legislative glory ended in a blaze of smoke and fire on the steps of the Montana Capitol as the Governor pulled out his branding iron and burned a giant VETO onto a pile of Tea Party bills.

Check out the auction and make your bid now!

The Governor has given one of these rare plaques to Rachel Maddow; Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America; and Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood of America. Now, you can bid on e-Bay to own one for yourself. The Pro-Choice Montana website has the details. If you win, Gov. Schweitzer will write you a personal message on the historic veto plaque. There is ONLY ONE DAY LEFT to bid.

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Thursday July 19, 2012 · 5:48 PM PDT

2012/07/19 · 17:48

The Livingstone Enterprise is reporting on the bizarre incident involving former GOP legislator Joel Boniek (pictured), R-Livingston, that led to Rep. Boniek's arrest.

Police allege that Boniek ran a road block and then

"allegedly argued with the officers and eventually 'dropped his left hand near what looked like a holster' before a deputy brought him to the ground."

The only defense Boniek offered to the reporter who asked him about the incident seems to be that Boniek "was on a private road in a private vehicle." Read More

Obama’s Rage, Coming to a Theater Near You (if you are redneck)

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Thursday July 05, 2012 · 6:21 AM PDT

2012/07/05 · 06:21

Did you know that Obama has rage, and that this rage has identifiable roots?

I was unaware of Obama’s rage, so I hadn’t felt the need to investigate the roots of it. But thankfully, a right-wing Republican who was once a movie producer in Hollywood and now lives in Kalispell is producing a movie that will answer these important questions.

The movie is called “Obama 2016” and is based on a book, released last year, entitled “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” The producer’s name is Gerald Molen. Recently Molen spoke to the GOP in the Flathead Valley of Montana where he lives the Button Valley Bugle reports, and described what he said is Obama’s “doomsday vision of the United States’ future” which includes “socialism” and “the end of America."

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