Teabaggers, Get out of my Eden!

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Thursday May 06, 2010 · 2:21 PM PDT

2010/05/06 · 14:21

Today I opened my Southern Idaho paper to read that our governor, the Otter, has refused federal insurance coverage for over 30,000 Idahoans that have pre-existing conditions. How dare he decide who has coverage or not. With Arizona and the crazy bent in our Western politics, I feel like I am not even living in the beautiful country of Bates' "spacious skies and purple mountain majesties" anymore. I am way more liberal than most Idahoans, but now all our slightly moderate republicans are being challenged by tea baggers. I feel like we are being taken over by...voles!!!

A vole is a tiny species of predatory rodent. This destructive mouse-like creature has been destroying seedlings and plants around Southern Idaho at a ferocious clip. Along with the unseasonably cool weather, this field mouse is literally eating up gardens. I couldn’t help but make a comparison to this ravenous creature and the out-of-control elements in politics known as the tea baggers.

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 12:16 PM PDT

2009/09/02 · 12:16

Saturday I sadly watched the funeral of Senator Teddy Kennedy. So much of this Irish girl’s political heart is wrapped up in the Kennedy legacy. A part of me is afraid that the political landscape will never be the same after Teddy. I think that Joe Kennedy who has worked for years for the environment would be my choice. Regardless of who replaces him in Mass. he will be missed on both sides of the aisle; as a lion and as a formidable adversary. Yes, I know that Edward Kennedy was not perfect. None of us are.

You see, I would not be me if it wasn’t for the Kennedys. At 10, I got into my first political scuffle over JFK with Carol Hibspman. There was a "Vote for JFK" pin on the ground and I grabbed it. When I pinned it on my blouse, my best friend grabbed it and stomped it into the ground. We had our first fight over the man she called a "Godless Catholic." It seems that I have been at odds with conservatives ever since.

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 10:39 PM PDT

2009/08/28 · 22:39

I am writing today with sadness over, not just the stupid comment by dumb and dumber (Rex Rammell and some unknown woman) but the lack of reaction here in my own home town. By now everyone knows, even many across the country thanks to Jared Hopkins, and Julie Fanselow that long shot GOP candidate for governor of Idaho, Rex Rammell, really stepped in it this week. In a speech at a local Twin Falls GOP event, long-shot getting longer Rammell criticized his opponent Governor Butch Otter for not living up to his promise to purchase the first wolf tag issued in our State. The often controversial Rammell reacted to a woman who shouted out something about "Obama tags" from a crowd of around 100 Tuesday night. In what he calls an effort to be sarcastic, Rammell yelled back, "Obama tags? We’d buy some of those!"

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Thursday August 27, 2009 · 3:26 PM PDT

2009/08/27 · 15:26

Well, friends, the crazies in Idaho hit an all time low. Rex Rammell, a long-shot Republican candidate for governor of Idaho, is not just hunting wolves now that the gray wolf tags went on sale Monday.

In response to an unknown blond known only as Lacy who shouted a question about Obama tags, Rammell responded that "The Obama Tags? We'll buy some of those, too." Questioned the next day after the GOP Southern Idaho party event in Twin Falls, Idaho, Rammell said that he was caught off guard by the question. "I was just being sarcastic. That was just a joke," He told a local Times News reporter Jared S. Hopkins the next day.

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 4:25 PM PDT

2009/08/26 · 16:25

I had the best laugh I have had in a long time thanks to Christine, a caller from Syracuse, Indiana on the Limpbaugh show today. I had my dial set to AM to hear the progressive Jill Skeem on Top Story and hadn’t switched back to my usual NPR station on FM. I never listen to Rush's drivel, but Christine got my ear. I didn’t expect any respect for the passing of Ted Kennedy by the loudmouth and of course I wasn’t disappointed.

I had already heard enough hateful remarks from our listening audience here in Southern Idaho this morning. I appear on a local talk show each Wednesday as a local democrat in a mostly conservative area. "They’ll have to screw him in the ground," one caller tastefully remarked. It doesn’t matter that the Senator was instrumental in passing more legislation for children and health reform than any other senator. The caller is probably living on Medicare right now thanks to Teddy, but I digress.

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Tuesday August 11, 2009 · 5:13 PM PDT

2009/08/11 · 17:13

I have resisted wading into the health care debate because I feel that the crazies out there are not capable of honest discussion, but I cannot stand by and let lies sabotage the very people who need insurance the most. I know that it is a slippery slope to talk about (Janet Hook writes on August 6.2009 in the LA Times that "the challenge for Democrats is particularly tough because the healthcare system is little understood by most people)," but an email from my husband’s niece Lisa was the catalyst for this blog.

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Monday May 26, 2008 · 11:27 AM PDT

2008/05/26 · 11:27

This dairy is a challenge to all who say there are no White, Middle-aged, middle-class women for Obama. I call them WMMW's for Obama. I am one of those rare voters for Obama; white, middle-aged, middle class, and female. There are hundreds of other such supporters in the state of Idaho. We may be the only state in the union with all of our superdelegates pledged for Senator Obama. Our DNC chair just recently endorsed Senator Obama. WMMWs for Obama are alive and well in Idaho. Read about ID Democrats on redstaterebels.com. See the story on our state DNC chairs's endorsement. http://redstaterebels.typepad.com/...

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