Post Post:  The Beacon included what they say is an email Koopman sent out that had a target list on it.  Here’s what got my dander up:

SHELBY/CONRAD/CHESTER/FORT BENTON: Llew Jones wages a personal war against Republican conservatives. His voting record is extremely liberal. Jones is now running for the Senate in SD 14. It is absolutely essential that we give the people of that district a conservative alternative in the Republican primary.

I’ve said it before and it bears repeating:  Llew Jones is the kind of legislator we want in Helena; a genuine, down to earth Golden Triangle Montanan.  Not a firebrand, not an ideologue, just a smart guy who’s trying to apply a little common sense to the Capitol circus.  We need more of that, not less.  Hang in there Llew, we’re not all nut-cases out here.

Montana Republicans are asking the Department of Commerce to target Oregon businesses in an advertising blitz that looks to steal jobs and promote Big Sky Country as a friendlier place to do business.

While it’s my opinion that Montana has a long way to go to be business friendly, our fair state is still miles ahead of places such as Oregon, whose politics is dominated by the malleable heartstrings of the Willamette Valley suburbanite along with the city dwelling self-centered styled intellectual.  Sure, we have our share of those, but thankfully we’ve not yet slipped into Bizarro World, as has Oregon.  That’s why this is a drum the Montana GOP needs to keep beating, and hard.  The fellow travelers here in Montana see in the Oregon example a path to victory; the rest of us see the potential to lure away businesses that would rather provide jobs than pay for a bloated bureaucracy.  We have an opportunity here, Governor Schweitzer; what is your priority?

From what I’ve gleaned from the progressive perspective, Coakley lost because a governor was placed on the leftward pointing engine of the Democrat’s governance.  The debate in those circles now seems to be whether the party should push harder left overtly or covertly.  Should Obamacare be jettisoned and support for a direct nationalization of healthcare be substituted in its stead?  Should Senate filibuster rules be changed so Obamacare can be approved, which will naturally lead to nationalization further down the road?  Amidst this strategy concoction, the one question I haven’t seen asked, or at least haven’t seen taken seriously, is whether or not our nation really wants more lefty cowbell.  Mr. Obama’s election put the blinders of settled science on a lot of progressives, but they might just want to remove them from time to time in case they are on an intercept course with a Mack truck.

This isn’t to say that the GOP has suddenly grown into a Boone & Crockett buck.  Yeah, many Democrats are nervous, but celebrating 59th place just looks sort of, well, pathetic.  I guess every turnaround has to begin with actually turning around, but when a moderate wins one race in a royal blue state and some people start wondering if he should run for President, one might think that the depth chart at the top of the party might be somewhat suspect.

At any rate, it is thoroughly entertaining, and given that one party no longer holds absolute power, at least now that entertainment will have to work a little harder at spending my kids money.  Carry on, and if anyone cares maybe I’ll be back in a few months to write another post.

Lewton and his buddies were arrested in an undercover sting operation during which an agent for Montana’s Fish, Wildlife & Parks shot and killed a bighorn sheep that scored over 204 points, Boone and Crockett. A new state record.

Yeah, the trial prevents comment and so on and so forth, but for the life of me I don’t get why the ‘undercover agent’ had to kill the sheep for the charges to be brought.  What a sickening waste.

Robert Millage of Kamiah said he’s been called a wolf murderer, a fat redneck and other names in about 50 phone calls and hundreds of e-mails.

Results like this make me wonder if a wolf hunting season will put a dent in S.S.S. at all.

The lesson plans, available online, originally recommended having students “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.”

The White House revised the plans Wednesday to say students could “write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.”

“That was inartfully worded, and we corrected it,” Higginbottom said.

…all the fun of a post hole digger without the sense of progress.