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Rehberg Fails to Deliver For Montana’s Rural Post Offices
While thousands of Montanans are facing the prospect of losing their local post offices, Representative Dennis Rehberg simply isn’t interested in doing his job and helping them, as Mike Dennison notes...
View ArticleGuest Post: Some things deserve to stay the same
by Gabriel Furshong More so than any other landscape in Big Sky Country, Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front derives its wonder from a violent juxtaposition of geological forms. The Front is the convergence...
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Rehberg Believes Corporations Are People Too
Senator Tester and Senator Baucus are standing up for Montana’s law and the relatively obvious idea that free speech rights attach to people, not multinational corporations, reports KXLH’s Marnee...
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Rehberg Cashes in from Citizens United—Directly
Not only is Representative Rehberg championing the right of corporations to pollute Montana politics, he’s benefiting financially from those who were responsible for the Supreme Court decision to allow...
View ArticleSenator Baucus Stands for Women’s Health Care
While Senate Republicans are blocking progress on the critical highway bill to continue their war on women in the form of the Blunt Amendment, Senator Baucus stood firm for health care coverage that...
View ArticleBaucus, ‘I’ve got your back, Jon’
Politico had a very interesting piece today regarding our senior Senator and K Street Lobbyists. Democrats on K Street are warning their corporate clients: Give to Republican challengers in the 2012...
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Melinda Gopher not running for the House
Melinda Gopher announced on Facebook this evening that she will not be running in 2012 for the U.S. House. Instead, she plans to “oust” Senator Baucus in 2014. I wouldn’t hold your breath. A...
View ArticleTester and Baucus Fight Big Oil Tax Breaks
While Representative Rehberg was voting entirely for the sake of the press yesterday, Senators Tester and Baucus were working to do something to restore fairness to America’s tax system—voting to end...
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A Post in Which I Upset Almost Everyone Talking About Max Baucus
The knives are out against Senator Baucus as he considers (or prepares for) his re-election bid in 2014. On the right, we’re seeing predictable, often childish attacks about the Senator’s personal life...
View ArticleFirst Assessment of the 2014 GOP Senate Field
It all starts, of course, with Governor Brian Schweitzer, who is likely to take his time making this decision. The only reason I see him not running is that there is some element of risk that could...
View ArticleSaturday Quick Takes: Draft Baucus, the Farm Bill, TRS, and More
Another interesting read up at the Flathead Memo today, reporting about the effort to draft Senator Max Baucus for “one last term.” James Conner writes: Should Baucus change his mind and run for...
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Baucus to China? Send John Walsh to Washington
The big news in Montana politics today is that President Obama plans to announce his intention to nominate Senator Max Baucus to be the next U.S. ambassador to China. If he does, the entire landscape...
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6. Charter School Law Would Hurt Montana’s Students There are certainly areas of improvement for Montana schools, but defunding them to pay for unaccredited, unaccountable institutions who are quite...
View ArticleBaucus in Beijing
It’s really a non-story — more of a House and Garden’s piece done by a Financial Times correspondent. But so little has been written about the U.S. Ambassador to China, Max Baucus, that it’s worth a...
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