Category: US Politics

  • Fraud

    <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/18/AR2006071801467.html">Aid to Ranchers Was Diverted For Big Profits</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>When a drought left pastures in a handful of Plains states parched in 2003, ranchers turned to the federal government for help. Officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture quickly responded with what they considered an innovative plan.<br />n<br />nThey decided to dip into massive…

  • The Feds Taking Over

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/18/news/local/70-cobb.txt">Burns backs federal aid for Cobb Field</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., announced Monday that a $500,000 appropriation to help defray the cost of rebuilding Cobb Field will be included a federal spending bill.<br />n<br />nThe proposed federal appropriation is included in the 2007 Treasury, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill. If…

  • I Like This

    Now here is an idea I can get behind.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.nasda.org/InterstateMeatShipment/">AGRICULTURE COALITION URGES ACTION ON INTERSTATE MEAT SHIPMENT BILL</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A broad-based coalition of agricultural and farm organizations is urging Congress to take prompt action on legislation introduced June 15 that would allow interstate sales of state-inspected meat and poultry products. S. 3519, the…

  • Deep Question

    Is Conrad Burns really a person? Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y. is asking this question with his new legislation called the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/10/news/state/30-bison.txt">B.U.R.N.S. (Better Urban Recording Number System) Act</a>.<br />n<br />nTruthfully it is a very good question whether he is a person or not. I'm not real sure a politician qualifies for the label of person.…

  • Priorities

    So, there is nothing in our country, or the world, more important for the President to deal with than the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201519.html">Gay marriage issue</a>? Spiraling deficits, corruption, energy policy, Iraq, Iran, Inflation or many other things all take a back burner to this all important issue?<br />n<br />nSOMEBODY AROUND HERE NEEDS TO GET THEIR PRIORITIES…

  • Immigration Debate

    The big news today is the President's speech last night on immigration and his proposal to send <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMMIGRATION?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"> National guard</a> troops to help shore up our Southern border. I've watched all this Immigration debate going on for the past couple of months and wondered, why has this become such a hot issue all of…

  • Man of This Land My A**

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/07/news/state/30-rural.txt">'Man of this land' wants to fight for rural America</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As Conrad Burns hurtles along U.S. 87 in a Chevy Silverado truck at 80 mph, he makes a grand gesture toward the miles of unbroken prairie south of here.<br />n<br />n"I'm a man of this land," says the three-term U.S. senator from Montana.…

  • Stupid Ideas

    A lot of people are complaining about the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARNS_OIL?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">profits the oil industry</a> is making and have all kinds of solutions as to how to help consumers past this stretch of high gas prices. The stupidest of these I've heard is a $100 fuel-cost rebate for millions of taxpayers and suspending the federal 18.4-cent-per-gallon gasoline…

  • Excuse Me?

    If Sen Burns has not done anything wrong, and was not influenced by Abramoff, and has not been contacted by the Justice Department in connection with the Abramoff scandal, why is he <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/26/news/state/40-burns-lawyer.txt">hiring a lawyer</a> that specializes in "white-collar crime, the defense of government enforcement actions, political and congressional investigations, corporate internal investigations and…

  • Disgusting

    <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/23/AR2006042300870.html">Burns May Be Bouncing Back</a> (Washigton Post story free registration required)<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Polls here suggest that Burns, 71, a three-term incumbent who has been targeted by the Democrats as one of the most beatable Republicans in the Senate, may be bouncing back from the pounding he took late last year after the publication of…