Montana: West

by jhwygirl
Rehberg’s hypocrisy never ends. We lefties in the blogosphere have been making sure for years that ya’all stay painfully awash in Denny Rehberg’s hypocrisy. Left in the West has pulled out scores of examples over the years. Pogie at Intelligent Discontent, too, has scores of posts on Rehberg, including this one [...]

by jhywgirl
Anyone who peruses these pages or Left in the West is familiar with JC, one of the more frequent commenters at both sites. I know I’ve enjoyed his comments. Frankly, there are times when I’ve been unable to comment and seeing that JC was holdin’ down the floor, keeping things clear and [...]

by Bob Gentry
This piece is cross-posted from Left in the West. We’re happy to have it. - j-girl
In response to a 5 year old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU, today the US Department of Justice released four memos generated during the Bush years by US DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) [...]

I've been writing a lot about how Max's proposal to tax benefits would work for a reason: misinformation and confusion ran rampant in the 1993 health care debate. That ended up doing a lot of harm -- not just to progressives, but to the American people who remain stuck in the most broken health care system of any in the industrialized world.

That said, even though Max Baucus's proposal isn't akin to John McCain's, there are good reasons it has a lot of people upset (I should note here that tax deductibility is not one of the areas I've given a ton of thought to in this realm).