| Bunk in the West scratches his head at Rehberg's opposition to meaningful health care reform by invoking the specter of "faceless bureaucrats" dictating coverage - when we're already at the mercy of faceless bureaucrats dictating our coverage..
Current Montana SoS Linda McCulloch requested an audit from a federal agency into how a grant through the Help America Vote Act was spent by her predecessor. There's no mention of wrongful spending, but it's an issue to keep an eye on.
The deadline for briefs in Montana's assisted-suicide lawsuit has passed, and the state supreme court is likely to hear arguments later this summer.
This is kind of icky: the Good Guv endorsed Terry McAuliffe for Virginia's Democratic Senatorial nomination...
Montana's the top target for the Obama team to flip from red to blue!
Matt Bai has a must-read piece in the New York Times Magazine about the wrangling the Obama administration is going through over the issue of health care.
Rightie terrorist Scott Roeder claimed that "violence was planned around the nation," which strikes Jeff Fecke as a "ticking time-bomb scenario." Just don't wait for calls to torture Roeder from righties. Fecke: "Funny, isn't it? When the terrorist isn't brown, the bloodlust just isn't as much fun for you guys."
Dana of The Edge of the American West reminds us of some basic facts surrounding late-term abortions, which have been in the news quite a bit since the murder of George Tiller: namely, they're neither common nor frivolous.
Frank Schaeffer, reacting to Tiller's murder: "The leaderless Republican Party -- or should I say the dwindling rabble of know-nothing reactionaries who still identify themselves as Republicans -- is not just politically leaderless, they are also morally leaderless. This, speaking metaphorically, is a lynch mob in the making. Like all lynch mobs only one or two will do the actual hanging. The rest are just along for the 'fun,' the dimwitted 'tea parties,' the histrionics, the entertaining brawl. And when they head to the woods to do their dirty work the preachers back in town who stirred them up Sunday after Sunday (as it were) will be wisely absent but no less culpable.
"This 'lynch mob' mentality is the context in which Dr. Tiller was murdered."
EJ Dionne: "A media environment that tilts to the right is obscuring what President Obama stands for and closing off political options that should be part of the public discussion." He's absolutely right. US media bias is not liberal, it's conservative.
Bernie Sanders makes the case for single-payer health care.
Kevin Drum has the transcript, video, and links to commentary on President Obama's recent speech in Egypt. Check it out...
Jeffrey Toobin: "As with earlier breakthrough nominations, Obama's selection of Sotomayor has stirred some old-fashioned ugliness, and in that alone it serves as a reminder of the value of a diverse bench and society. Some anonymous portrayals of the Judge offered the kind of patronizing critiques ("not that smart") that often greet outsiders at white-male preserves. Women who have integrated such bastions will be familiar, too, with the descriptions of her temperament ("domineering"), which are of a variety that tend to reveal more about the insecurity of male holdovers than about the comportment of female pioneers. The pernicious implication of such views is that white males, who constitute a hundred and six of the hundred and ten individuals who have served on the Court, made it on merit, and that Sotomayor is somehow less deserving."
There's no law against outing anonymous bloggers because they're critical of you; but it does make you a dick. |
