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Category Archives: Montana Politics

Roger That

I’m late on this, sort of like everything else in my life at the moment, but for some reason Koopman’s brand of crazy is getting press again; this time for his self defined conservative litmus test.  I understand he fed the opinions of elected Montana Republicans into some sort of conservomatic-2000 and discovered that a […]

Posted 04 March 2010 † Doug § Republican Raunch ‡ Comments (0)

Finally, A Little Offense

Ordinarily, I can be counted on to be the cynical bastard who’ll kick anybody in the shins to reinforce my misanthropy, but not today.  The Montana GOP gets a tip ‘o the fedora from me for this move as reported by the Helena IR:
Montana Republicans are asking the Department of Commerce to target Oregon businesses […]

Posted 21 February 2010 † Doug § ‡ Comments (0)

HB 228 Gutted, Thanks MT GOP

Leave it to the Montana GOP  to flip me the bird (once again) as soon as I put up a post declaring my intention to go quietly into the night.  Rusty over at MTPundit has the details, as does today’s Helena IR.  It looks to me that all that’s left of the thing are some […]

Posted 01 April 2009 † Doug § Republican Raunch ‡ Comments (4)

Hearing HB228

I wasn’t able to attend the hearing, but today the Senate Judiciary Committee had the pleasure of an hour and a half of public testimony discussing the pros and cons of HB228.  I did, however, listen to the whole thing online, and I’ll hope to spare anyone the exercise of doing the same with this […]

Posted 17 March 2009 † Doug § ‡ Comments (12)

HB 228 in the Montana Senate

Rusty beat me to it, but the next step in getting this legislation through the hoops of Helena has arrived.  Our version of the “Castle Doctrine” comes before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, March 17th at 9am in room 303, having already passed the Montana House by a 60-40 vote.  If you work for […]

Posted 13 March 2009 † Doug § Dextra ‡ Comments (0)

HB 228…

…Our version of the Castle Doctrine, passed the second reading yesterday, and a hearty well done goes out to the State legislators who supported it.  I know I’m supposed to be scared and all should it pass a third reading today and also clear the State Senate, but I ain’t.  Here’s why:
1)  I like the […]

Posted 10 February 2009 † Doug § ‡ Comments (8)

Senators, For Your Consideration

Senator Baucus and Senator Tester,
I understand my opinion is largely irrelevant to how you will vote regarding the stimulus package Mr. Baucus helped to craft, you are both Democrats, after all.  That stated, because of where you sit, you get to hear from me anyway.
I believe my small business was a casualty of the current […]

Posted 03 February 2009 † Doug § Dextra § National Politics ‡ Comments (2)

SSDD

Don Pogreba of Intelligent Discontent beat me to the punch on this one (not that such a thing is particularly hard to do), and he’s exactly right.  Montana House Speaker Bob Bergren (a Democrat) wants to eliminate bonuses paid to political appointees when the elected official who appointed them has reached the end of his […]

Posted 13 January 2009 † Doug § ‡ Comments (2)

Stimulating

Like most of the Montana blobosphere, I’ve been following with interest the frequent posts over at the Rotunda Report, the collaborative blog of Montana’s GOP legislators.  The comments aren’t exactly shooting the lights out, but I’m not really one to complain.  Anyway, today my former Representative, Llew Jones of Conrad, put up a short but […]

Posted 12 January 2009 † Doug § Dextra § National Politics ‡ Comments (0)

So, Do You Like Apples?

Then how do you like them apples?
A couple of weeks ago, the judge overseeing the school funding lawsuit fiasco here in Montana told the beggars to saddle up and ride, or something like that.  It looks like this one attorney has said that all is well with our schools now.  What a relief.  Well, not […]

Posted 23 December 2008 † Doug § ‡ Comments (0)