A Good One

You can tell how good it is by noticing the quick response by the Bugler of Montana.

The Day After

Stranger things have happened but not recently. Huge numbers of Democrats were thrown out of office, not least in the state governorships and legislatures. This may mean that state Republicans will get to push electoral boundary lines a few miles toward neutrality. Of course, our main stream media, ever watchful, will make sure that the Republicans don't overstep their natural place as second class citizens.

The rules are,  whatever the Democrats have is theirs and whatever the Republicans have is negotiable. Sort of reminds you of the diplomatic conversations between Kennedy and Krushchev back in the 60s.

Talking about being thrown out of office, maybe we should keep our eyes on those still in office for another couple of months. I know it's not traditional for lame duck sessions to produce anything really useful but you never know with lowlifes like Reid and Pelosi. Dogs-in-mangers to describe these people is being unkind to dogs.

Something strange happened right here in River City. Although the Republicans nearly ran the table in the Montana state legislature, that was not the case in Senate District 25 which failed to return long-serving Roy Brown to the State Senate, giving a very close contest to Kendall Van Dyk, a young fellow apparently not needed on the ranch and of no particular distinction. Odd result. I do remember one of his campaign ads in which he appeared with a smiling Pres. Obama. Of course we know that close contests tend to go to the Democrat in Chicago or Detroit or indeed any fairly large city but could that be true right here in River City. Do we need to worry about who counts the votes?

Max of Montana Slips Into Billings

With not a lot of fanfare preceding him, the senior Senator from Montana, Max Baucus, gave the commoners at several meetings including the Downtown Exchange Club yesterday the latest wisdom from Washington DC. He appeared to be sober. The picture above is from Max's adventures in Washington where he said that forcing people to pay for insurance was a "tax cut."

The article in the Gazette did not mention his paramour du jour so it was not known who was handling him on this rare trip to his home state. It seems clear that he didn't use a tele-prompter, or if he did, he simply read badly from it.

He was not asked if he had finally read any of the bills he put out of his Senate Finance Committee. He also was not asked why he voted for the tax rate cut for all in 2001 but now has changed his mind. He did say "it makes no sense to raise taxes. If anything we should do the opposite . . . ."

The article in the Gazette used the following pull quote:

"When you're treading water, you're sinking. You have to be moving forward."

While people were scratching their heads trying to figure out what this meant the smiling Senator made a quick getaway. Perhaps those in other Montana cities will be better able to understand what the Senator is worried about.

What does this mean?

I saw this gas-guzzling SUV parked alongside Grand Ave as you approach Shiloh going west. It seemed like an in-your-face way of attracting the attention of the environmental wackos. I didn't immediately see the subtitle "Conservative Republican." But when I got a little closer I did note this modification of an ordinary Republican candidate, perhaps a little redundant, but then I am an old fuddy-duddy. Since then I've noticed a few other signs on the roadside and quite a few radio ads with the words "conservative" and "common sense" mentioned. The name Kennedy might get confused with another Kennedy who has not yet made the jump from relatively conservative local Democrat to the usual far out leftist Democrat suitable only for serving in Congress. But with the other signs and ads I think this might be a harbinger of future events, e.g. the House of Representatives moving decidedly to the right and perhaps the Senate finally getting rid of a few seditious old farts on the Left. You know who they are. This should be interesting.