Montana: Obama

by jhwygirl
I missed 3/4 of it. My dog up and tried to kill himself, which involved 2 doctors, some hydrogen peroxide and plenty of reassurance that “he’ll probably just be real drowzy” and “keep him away from beer.”
So anything ya’ll add will be more than what I saw.
I hear he called for a public [...]

by JC
Last week on Bill Maher’s Real Time, Bill Moyers, in a special “The Conscience of a Nation” edition, laid out a beautiful progressive’s analysis of the Obama administration’s struggling efforts to reconcile its legislative health care efforts with the progressive base’s demands. I think that Moyers’ words speak for themselves, so I’ll leave it [...]

by JC
Yesterday, at Obama’s Organizing For America town hall, he let slip a valuable piece of policy information. In what to-date has been mostly a specifics-free push for reform that meets whatever set of goals that satisfy this week’s polling needs, Obama let loose in an hour and almost 20 minute video town hall that [...]

Montana blogosphere lost a friend. Bob Garner, "Bob" here and elsewhere, and of Waves and Particles, died. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

Rehberg touts free market...by advocating a special government program that would bail out Montana mining interests.

Some weird stuff going on in Helena. A fired staffer in the Auditor's office claims she was harassed at the office into making a political contribution and later bullied by Walter Schweitzer. Lindeen has ordered an independent investigation into the accusations.

Keith Olbermann puts Baucus in the crosshairs.

Good news for the nation's first peoples: "A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Interior Department must account for century-old land royalties owed to American Indians, reversing a lower court's ruling that the task is impossible.