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Where is the right-wing outrage and demands for apologies from Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO)? On Friday Tancredo said this in response to a question about what the United States could do to respond to a terrorist attack here."You could take out their holy sites."The interviewer then says "Your talking about bombing Mecca." And Tancredo responded "Yeah."Now the right-wingnuts are all out on ledges

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OK, I'm going to try something new here. Each Monday I will take a look back at the previous weeks Conservative blogs and present the Top 5 crazy, cooky, whacked-out posts. The hardest part about this is going to be limiting it to five. Here we go.5. In Sibby's continuing effort to dumb down South Dakota, he offered up a post entitled "Hildebrand and Iowa AG Tom Miller". In the post Sibby tries

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Sen. Clinton and Sen. Lieberman are making it abundantly clear that they are running for President in 2008 and that they intend to get there by acting like Republicans. And not just your regular run-of-the-mill Republicans, but crazy, whacked-out Republicans.The Senators are up in arms about pornographic content "hidden" in a video game called "Grand Theft Auto". This reminds me of that age old

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A little more than a week ago apparent suicide bombers killed over 50 people in London. Of course I don't need to tell you that. Everyone already knows. It reminded us all of 9/11 (although it's not as if you could possibly forget 9/11 as long as President Bush is making speeches) and was simply horrific.Let me ask you something, did you know that an almost identical attack happened in Iraq today

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So this is the best the Republicans could come up with? A plan that would extent the solvency of Social Security for two entire years at a cost of only $851 billion over the next 11 years. You know I just can't think of a better way to spend $851 billion than to allow people to invest $770 in a private account."The bill calls for establishing personal retirement accounts for workers under age 55

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I had so much fun seeing what others are saying about our esteemed freshman senator that I decided to do it again.This first one is from a blog called Me4Presisent2008 and it's a pretty funny site."Although I didn't like Daschle, you somehow found a way to elect a guy who is a bigger jackass than he was. While driving to the Black Hills, I saw more signs up saying that this is the home, birth

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Last week when I posted on Greg Belfrage's take on the Thune/Nelson matter, I was both taken to task for being too hard on Belfrage and praised for reporting what he said early one morning when most people are still asleep. I had no idea a local right-wing talk-radio host would illicit such a heated response. Anyway, in the Argus today another Belfrage listener takes Greg and Backyard

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Kelo TV is reporting tonight that SD's acting US Attorney is going to great length's to avoid any actual or perceived conflict of interest (I wonder if that sound's familer to our freshman senator?) in the Dan Nelson debacle. What conflict of interest you ask? Well, it turns out that the acting US Attorney is none other than one Michelle Tapken, mother of former Dan Nelson Automotive owner

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Following are comments left on a message board at Yahoo Financial about Meta Financial."This was a loan made with incredibly poor judgement by the companies board and hopefully investigations will take place into Mr. Nelson's alleged criminal activity and Sen. Thune's possible back scratching of an old friend using money of a publically-traded company.""As I thought, this baby is headed the wrong

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I found this little gem on a SD righty blog today. It's really pretty revealing."John Thune had nothing to do with the bankruptcy of Dan Nelson Automotive. A once profitable and job-providing business now destroyed, and by the actions of Iowa’s Attorney General Tom Miller, a pro-Democrat operative at the national levels of his party. Perhaps it was due to Steve Hildbrand having Tom Miller’s ear

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Some right-wing bloggers have started to weigh in on the Dan Nelson/John Thune story, and to be honest I have found some of their defense of Sen. Thune compelling, but I also think they miss the mark, or try to move the target on a few points.First. Taking their cue from the Senator himself, all the Right-wing bloggers feel obliged to specifically mention that at the time of the loan Thune was a

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There is some good stuff about Sen. Thune on blogs out there. Here is a sampling.I love this. A comment by "The Observer" on Mount Blogmore asks that we come up with a more original name for MetaGate than MetaGate, and then offers a great suggestion...Thune Pot Dome. I'm going with that from now on.Arbitrarily Tom notes that SD's Homeland Security Director John Berheim stated yesterday that the

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The Rapid City Journal has a story today about Thune/MetaGate, much like the story on Kelo TV last night. They do have an interesting statement from a Thune spokesman though."Thune communications director Kyle Downey said the senator would not respond Thursday to Olson's statement. Downey issued a short statement on Thune's behalf Thursday evening that rejected the implications of any

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This morning on Kelo AM Thune mouthpiece Greg Belfrage "reported" on the Thune/MetaGate story. First, he left out the fact that Nelson ran some of Thune's earlier campaigns. Then he didn't get into the timeline of the events that raise the as yet unanswered questions about Thune's involvement. Belfrage then questioned the motives of Kelo TV in running the story and asked who was pushing the

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Kelo TV finally ran a report on Thune/Nelson/MetaGate tonight. Basically they brought everyone up to speed with what we have all known in the blogosphere since the vast Left-wing conspiracy broke the story last week. Not really much new and most disappointing, still no comment from Thune.One would think that at some point he is going to have to at least deny any wrongdoing.Meta Financial Groups

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A little more information is coming out now, check out PIADW, Clean Cut Kid, and Don't Worry About The Government. One of the interesting items revealed in the bankruptcy documents filed yesterday was that two different loan agreements where reached in October of 2004 when Thune was still on the Board of Directors of what would become MetaBank and Nelson was aware that the Iowa AG was

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I noticed that in the last day or two the White House has taken to calling Alberto Gonzalez, "Al". And they seem to have sent the memo to other Right-wingers as well. I wonder if this is a concerted effort on their part as some sort of plan to soften his image leading up to a Supreme Court nomination? Al. Everyone has an uncle Al. Al is the guy who bags your groceries or does your taxes. Al has

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I came across a column I guess you'd call it, written by Sen. Thune at Dakota Voice published yesterday. The piece is about his need to protect the flag and it is classic Thune."Sadly, we are all too familiar with the scene on the nightly news or accounts in newspapers where a group of protestors douse an American flag in kerosene and set it on fire."All too familiar? The problem Johnny is that

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As always, SD Watch has been very active on the whole MetaGate controversy. Todd has sent a letter to Randell Beck asking the Argus to cover the story, written a letter to Thune asking for comment, and found out that at least one member of the SDMSM is currently working the story with it's release to come in the next day or two.Just because I like to see Sibby lose his mind, I really hope it is

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While we here in South Dakota are consumed with our own freshman senator's burgeoning scandal, there is another ongoing legal drama involving Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican. Cunningham's home in California and the yacht he lives on while in Washington where simultaneously searched by federal agents earlier this week. "Duke" seems to be flaunting his wrongdoing right out in

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In light of the financial difficulties the Dan Nelson Automotive Group bankruptcy appears to be causing Meta Bank (tip of the cap to PIADW) I wonder if Meta Bank's Chairman of the Board James Haahr is re-thinking his decision to donate $2000.00 to Thune's campaign in September of 2004. Just before his bank made the ill-fated loan to Dan Nelson Automotive for a cool $28 million.As pointed out by

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This blog has been watching the developments of the Dan Nelson Automotive Iowa AG lawsuit and then it's bankruptcy, but Clean Cut Kid , Thune Watch , Politics in a Dangerous World and Don't Worry About the Government have dug deeper and uncovered some very interesting information.From Clean Cut Kid,"So the timeline now looks like this: 1) Nelson becomes aware of the Iowa fraud investigation in

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That according to Sibby and Walter Williams, not me. Sibby has a post entitled "Eminent domain ruling supports socialists" with a link to a Walter Williams story. Now to be clear, I don't agree with the Supreme Court ruling regarding eminent domain, but for the Right to be up in arms and make it seem like it is some liberal ideal is crazy, espeically since their leader made a huge profit by

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Thune Watch and Don't Worry About the Government have us all on pins and needles waiting on this "Thune Controversy". I can't wait to see what they've dug up.

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Bush was elected by a bunch of everyday Americans who voted for him and other Republicans because they believe in certain things and they felt this group of Republicans, headed by Bush would take on these issues and get the outcome that they desired. Among these issues where abortion, social security reform, homeland security, making tax cuts permanent and opposition to gay marriage.Bush and Co.

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Two stories in the past two days have me very confused. Do Conservatives think the constitution provides for separation of church and state or not?First, the US Supreme Court ruled that displaying the Ten Commandments on government property is only permissible in some cases and not ever prescience's if they are there for only religious reasons. From the Argus,"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday

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Two reporters who worked on the Valarie Plame outing story may land in jail later this week, but not the reporter who initially outed her in the first place. From the LA Times,"Cooper and Miller have been the most prominent in a recent pageant of journalists jailed or fined for ignoring court orders to reveal sources. Cooper has gained acclaim as Time's dogged, wisecracking White House

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Sen Thune made an appearance on national TV today when he took to the airwaves on C-SPAN in his continuing effort to find the real killers...no...I mean to keep Ellsworth open. Johnnie (I call him that just for Sibby) had some interesting things to say. I mean interesting in a rambling Sibby sort of way.From the AP"One caller pointed out that following the May 13 announcement, Thune had

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Car dealer and Republican hack Dan Nelson has declared his auto company bankrupt. He says a pending lawsuit in Iowa has cut into his business."Citing an ongoing legal fight with the Iowa attorney general, an embattled Sioux Falls car dealer has declared bankruptcy.Dan Nelson Automotive Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization late Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Sioux Falls. Court

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The House has again approved a constitutional amendment banning burning the American flag. This isn't news, it's the sixth time the House has done so just since 1995. The news is that with all the new conservative idiots in the Senate, it might actually get through that body as well and then we will all get to go vote on actually amending the constitution that gives us our rights to in fact

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I don't know if recent comments by Howard Dean and Dick Durbin where made for this purpose or not, but they have created an opportunity for other Democrats to move to the "center", and actually still be a bit left of center.I shouldn't be hard for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or any other Democrat who has presidential aspirations, to take advantage of this. It should be easy for them to stand

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Rep. Charles Rangle of New York and Rep John Conyers of Michigan are leading the charge demanding a full investigation of the facts brought to light in the various DSM that appear to show a concerted effort of both the British and the American governments to fix evidence about WMD in Iraq to "make the war legal"."Quite frankly, evidence that appears to be building up points to whether or not the

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A Christian "school" and I use the word school in only the broadest sense of the word, has received $1 million in federal money in the last two years. The name of the school is the Alaska Christian College. Again, college is a generous name for this institution.Now the federal government is allowed to give grant money to religious schools, but it must be used for secular purposes, which seems

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The US House of Representatives is again showing signs of having a backbone and a conscience. From the NYT,"The House voted Wednesday to block a provision of the USA Patriot Act that makes it easier for federal investigators to review the records of libraries and bookstores on national security grounds."This quote form Bernard Sanders an Independent from Vermont who lead the fight against these

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Remember Philip Cooney? He is the now former White Official who changed scientific reports produced by the White House in order to downplay the role of say oil companies in the growing problem.Now, Cooney has resigned from the White House in order to take a new job. Can you guess who hired him? It's Exxon Mobile Corp. Why I am shocked.Here is my favorite part of the LA Times article."The

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Well, you have to hand it to Bush, he has created exactly the kind of "democracy" in Iraq that he is trying to create right here in America. It seems that those not loyal to the Kurdish political parties in Kirkuk are simply being abducted. This story is truely unbelievable. It's from the Washington Post."Police and security units, forces led by Kurdish political parties and backed by the U.S.

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Sure, Ellsworth is dust. We are going to get half the funding for water projects that is really needed. John Bolton is qualified. No wait, Bolton is not qualified because Ellsworth is closing. Thune has the President's ear but he just isn't listening. Don't worry though, cuz Looney Thune is thiiiissss close to saving us from that age old epidemic of flag burning. When was the last time you saw a

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At a joint press conference in Washington last week, Tony Blair and George W Bush trotted out their same old tired line that they went to the UN Securtity Council as part of a diplomatic attempt to stave off the impending invasion of Iraq. Now, as The Sunday Times points out, the real story seems to be different.This quote is in reference to the 2nd classified memo that has been leaked to The

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"Inside the Beltway" reports this classic."In what could be a Capitol Hill first, a lawmaker last week attempted to cast a vote of 'not present.'"It all started with a crazy Republican from Texas, it wasn't even Tom Delay."But then Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican, principled libertarian and chronic skunk at congressional garden parties, offered an 'American sovereignty restoration' amendment

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This is a couple of days old, but I was busy this weekend so I didn't get a chance to post it. On Friday "Citizens Against Government Waste" named our very own freshman Sen. John Thune "Porker of the Month" for June.Here is the good part,"In a thinly-veiled attempt to punish the Bush administration for not compromising the integrity of the BRAC process, Sen. Thune threatened to reverse his

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In a recent "hard hitting" interview of President Bush by FOX News' Neil Cavuto, Cavuto actually asked the following question of Bush,"Do you think that the focus on Michael Jackson has hurt you?"If Bush was honest (don't laugh at that. I didn't mean that to be a joke) he would have told Cavuto that all the Focus on Jackson is actually helping him. While 2,000 plus "media" types where waiting

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Moderate. Southern. Governor. Mark Warner. Virginia Governor to be exact. Moderate, southern and governor has been a winning combination in the past for Democrats (Bill Clinton for example). Warner has formed a PAC and hired a former Al Gore staffer to help guide him through the beginning stages of a 2008 Presidential run.From the Richmond Times-Dispatch,"Gov. Mark R. Warner has formally

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A certain right-wing South Dakota blogger is now accusing SD Dems of "ignoring the truth" regarding the Ellsworth situation. Here is the good part,"The South Dakota Democrats need to take note:'Before that Base Realignment and Closure Commission hearing in Rapid City, the task force and others want to review information used by the Pentagon in making its decision and prepare a rebuttal. That

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Just thought it might be fun to take a look at the long, strange trip around John Bolton that John Thune has taken.First, on Hardball on April 19,THUNE: I think you have to look at issues of conduct as they relate to the level of professionalism that a person brings to the job. If it‘s because that person is demanding and they are making people work hard and that‘s—that‘s probably OK. (

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1118373924324094812005-06-09T20:17:00.000-07:002005-06-09T20:25:24.333-07:00

Ken Sanders at Politics of Dissent has a great post detailing how Bush and his administration have systematically lied to Americans in the past month as well as revealing Bush & Co's obvious hatred for America.First the hatred part,"Bush declared last month that the accusations of torture and abuse by detainees at Guantanamo weren't credible because they were made by 'people who hate America,

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According to today's Kranz article, John Thune has canceled his NYC Fundraiser for his Heartland Values PAC. "Sen. John Thune's Heartland Values Political Action Committee fund-raiser June 13 in New York has been canceled. No reason was given."I wonder if it was due to lack of interest?

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Changes Philip Cooney made to documents related to global warming Above is the actual text of some of the changes Cooney made Whitehouse documents after they had already been approved by others in the administration. Click here to get a bigger version.

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In what has now become a disturbing habit, the Bush administration continues to manipulate facts to fit their narrowly defined agenda. This time in regards to the climate and global warming, which of course they insist doesn't exist, just like any other form of science (if it's not in the Bible, then they don't believe it).According the the NY Times:"In handwritten notes on drafts of several

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I think it's cute that Sibby thinks we need to lead around by the nose by the "SDMSM" to come up with ways to attack Thune. Today he acts like the notion of Thune being in a no win situation was first floated in today's David Kranz column."David Kranz's column today provides the angry South Dakota Dumped Daschle Disciples with ammunition to attack John Thune, no matter what he does on the Bolton

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1118116976995507262005-06-06T20:52:00.000-07:002005-06-06T21:02:57.003-07:00

Sheldon Whitehouse who is hoping to be the Democrat nominee trying to unseat Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee has hired a former Daschle staffer to manage his campaign. That staffer would be Mindy Myers who most recently served as the political director of DASHPAC, Daschle's political action committee.Myers said she would start out on a part time basis as most of her time is eaten up right now

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It's nice to see the new Pope is continuing to try to steer the Catholic faith down a road of intolerance that will continue to alienate nearly everyone until the faith simply doesn't exist anymore because nobody can be the perfect person one has to be to be a Catholic in good standing.In a wide ranging speech today the Pope touched on a bunch of subjects and spewed intolerance and hatred at

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This really isn't funny, but it's hard not to laugh. It seems some old timers in Missouri who haven't yet received the news that the Civil War is over, had some sort of celebration called "Confederate Memorial Day". It had previously been illegal to fly the Confederate flag in Missouri, but Gov. Matt Blunt (go ahead and guess if he's Republican or Democrat) gave these people permission to fly the

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As part of Howard Dean's strategy of building the Democratic party from the ground up, he has been raising money for the "50 State Strategy". The following is from the DNC Website:The Democratic Party is committed to winning elections at every level inevery region of the country, and we're getting started right now with a massive effort to fund organizers on the ground in every state.The ultimate

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Somebody needs to alert the right-wing South Dakota blogosphere that the election is over...and they WON! Look here and here. You will find a ton of posts about Tom Daschle and Bill Clinton. Did I miss something? Are they still in office in some parallel universe? If so how do I get there?Oh I know they will tell you that Daschle is still "campaigning" and that anything that goes wrong including

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Even though the Republican party seems to be coming apart at the seams, it still appears to be a bit of a reach to think Democrats will regain control of the Senate in 2006. Still, there does seem to be some vulnerability for current GOP senators. Maybe, just maybe, Democrats can start to cut into the GOP advantage in 2006, and pick up some momentum heading into 2008.In 2006 there are 15

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1117770586090173612005-06-02T20:40:00.000-07:002005-06-02T20:49:46.096-07:00

Ann "I swallowed a thesauras and have to use all these big words" Coulter is at it again. In a piece at TownHall.com cleverly entitled "7 Extraordinary Idiots", Coulter rails on the seven GOP Senators that finally accomplished what Bill Frist never could and got Bush's judicial nominees their much talked about "up or down vote" on the senate floor.What I found particularly offensive where the

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What is going on with Republicans this week? Ever since Mark Felt outed himself as "Deep Throat" for the Watergate investigation, Nixon apologists have been coming out of the woodwork, and coming unhinged.It's hard to say which one is the looniest, but Pat Buchanan is in the running. Every time he opens his mouth something totally absurd comes out. First, on Bill O'Reilly's radio show yesterday (

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1117600661181678332005-05-31T21:06:00.000-07:002005-05-31T21:37:41.210-07:00

I guess Republicans only hate gay politicians who offer government jobs to potential lovers if said politician is a Democrat. Remember last year when then New Jersey Governor James McGreevey was outed as a homosexual? Republicans where in full tizzy mode.Now, one of their own is in the same boat, and I don't hear Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or FOX News wringing their hands about the evil gay

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President Bush's precious political capital continues to disappear at an alarming rate. First the House of Representatives passes legislation that would allow federal dollars to be used on embryonic stem cell research (which of course he says he will veto), and now individual states are racing to be the best in the field, throwing money at researches to conduct their research in their states.

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Proud Liberal was mentioned today on CNN's Inside Politics during the Inside the Blogs Segment. Here is part of the transcript,"ABBI TATTON, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Now, one Republican senator who has vowed to vote no on that vote when it comes down is South Dakota's John Thune. The Republican senator is going to do this protest vote. He says linked to the fact that the likely closure of

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Anna Quindlen has a terrific column in Newsweek this week entitled "Life of the Closed Mind." Either this column has flown under Conservative's radar, or I've missed the outrage at this piece. When I first read it and came to the passage below, I said to myself, "Quindlen just told the truth, and she will be racked over the coals for it." Here is the quote."Four years have passed, and it occurs

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Just thought I would pass on probably the best Letter to the Editor I have ever read. It appears in todays Argus Leader."During the 2004 campaign, Republican John Thune told voters that if elected to replace then-Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, his GOP ties would ensure that Ellsworth Air Force Base would remain open. Daschle said that as minority leader, he would have an appointment to the

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In my humble opinion (and the words of my grandfather), Sen Thune is in a real pickle. This whole Ellsworth thing is a no win situation for him if he proceeds the way he says he will.According to the Argus Leader Thune, "threatened to vote against the nomination of John Bolton, Bush's embattled nominee to be U.N. ambassador. If he does vote against Bolton, he will be one of only a handful of

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Chad at Clean Cut Kid posted a "shout out" to me on his blog earlier this week. In his shout out he mentioned that his son and my daughter play on the same T-ball team. I'm sure this revelation will spark a whole new round conspiracy theories in the right-wing blogosphere.I mean they are already convinced that former Daschle staffers like Chad are involved in some sort of cloak and dagger effort

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The revolution has begun and the radical wing of the Republican party can feel their grip on power slipping away, and they can't stand it. As a result, we all get to watch a very public meltdown of these extreme right-wing groups and their leaders.First the Senate actually finds a way to move forward on judicial nominees, while also staying open for business on other pressing matters, but the

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1116814423855257762005-05-22T18:56:00.000-07:002005-05-22T19:13:43.860-07:00

The folks on the Right want us to believe that the MSM are the root of all evil. But just whom do they consider to be the MSM? From what I can tell it's anyone who doesn't report solely from a right wing vantage point. I guess unless you are Rush or Hannity, you are MSM, aka liberal scum.The reason I think that is that a right-wing nut job would now have us believe that the NY Post is somehow a

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With all the talk about changing Senate filibuster rules, the fact that Orrin Hatch has already changed Senate rules has been pretty much ignored, even by that crazy "liberal media".During the presidency of Bill Clinton, the Republicans executed nearly 60 one Senator filibusters by using what used to be called the "blue slip policy." The policy allowed a senator from the nominees home state to

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1116682194228923912005-05-21T06:07:00.000-07:002005-05-21T06:29:54.330-07:00

While I've been away the fight over Judicial Nominees has been raging. Just keep in mind the people the Republicans are willing to change Senate rules for are extreme right wing crazies that even Bush right wing crazies think are crazy.Attorney General Alberto Gonzales served with Priscilla Owen on the Texas Supreme Court for less than two years, but he disagreed with her crazy right wing

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1116680537639591032005-05-21T05:59:00.000-07:002005-05-21T06:02:18.930-07:00

I've been away for about a month, I just needed some time off and I've also been busy with a special project at work and coaching my daughter's t-ball team, but I'm ready to get back at it now, so check back for regular updates starting today.

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Remember when the Republicans used to be the party of small government, fiscal responsibility and personal responsibility? Now their government has gotten so big they think they can tell you how to live and when you can die, they have run up the biggest deficit in history and now none of them seem interested in taking personal responsibility for their actions.First George Bush was absolved of any

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While driving home from work this afternoon I nearly drove off the the road laughing at Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. The right is completely losing their collective minds in the wake of the Schiavo case, but these two where in rare form today.After years of telling us that liberals are anti-American for questioning the President they are now getting a dose of their own medicine and they are

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Apparently the American people have finally had their fill of the Bush administration and Republican party's morality play. Ironically it seems to have taken Terri Schiavo to show us the way.From USA Today:"The controversy over Terri Schiavo has raised concerns among many Americans about the moral agenda of the Republican party and the power of conservative Christians, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll

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As a person who played little league and high school sports and has worked in pro sports, I used to have some very strong opinions about Title IX. Now, as the father of two amazing little girls I have some even stronger opinions on Title IX and they are not the same opinions I held before. Title IX is the 1972 law that requires gender equity in collegiate sports. In my younger, athlete days I

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After previously taking a call from Karl Rove telling him to never darken the White House doorstep again after he had the gall to call Bush on his open door policy with Mexico, Rep Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has his sites set on the Presidency.According to World Net Daily,"Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., fresh from victory in three online presidential straw polls over formidable candidates, told Joseph

Trent Dlugoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17377259153478427818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8276980.post-1112031007274669542005-03-28T09:14:00.000-08:002005-03-28T09:30:07.280-08:00

President Bush is apparently now at odds with Governor Bush (I'm talking about Gov. Bush of Texas here and not the one in FL) on the issue of executing citizens of other countries without notifying their consulate that they have been arrested which is in violation of the 1969 Vienna Conventions which was ratified into law the the Senate back then.This is from and ABC News report:"Justices were

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President Bush is threatening Democrats that if they don't support his plan to end Social Security people won't vote for them."President Bush (news - web sites) concluded a three-state swing to sell his plan to restructure Social Security (news - web sites), warning Democratic opponents Tuesday that they will suffer political consequences if they continue to oppose his proposal without providing

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If this is true it is still unbelievable. "A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated."Wait. This administration would fabricate something? Make something seem like news when in fact they just made it up? I am shocked!"Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily

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We haven't talked much about polls here since November, but there are couple of interesting ones out there now.First is news on Hillary Clinton in 2008."Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion poll found that 46 percent of voters want the former first lady to run for the White House while 49 percent said she should not. In a December poll, 38 percent favored a run, while 50 percent were

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Chad at Clean Cut Kid has accepted a new job in the political arena and has turned the keys over to a new Clean Cut Kid named Seth Hahn. Welcome to the good fight Seth."Readers,After a surprisingly fast two day search, I have found an individual to continue the blogging here at Clean Cut Kid. His name is Seth Hahn, from Rapid City, South Dakota. I suspect the readers of this site will enjoy Seth

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Sean Hannity and others continue to proclaim what a great success Iraq is because we have put an end to Saddam's mass graves. That is true, but now they have been replaced by the insurgents mass graves."Iraqi officials said Wednesday that 41 bodies — some bullet-riddled, others beheaded — have been found at two separate sites, and they believe some of the corpses are Iraqi soldiers kidnapped and

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Katherine Hockenbarger of Westboro Baptist Church carries signs Sunday morning in front of Cleveland United Methodist Church. The Topeka, Kan., church sent members to White County to spend the weekend protesting the formation of a gay club at the county's only high school. The right-wing media and bloggers have been all over Ward Churchill in the past weeks (and rightly so, what he said was

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This is the most incredibly ridiculous story I've ever heard. From the Chicago Tribune."Chandler Scott Fallaw, a rambunctious boy, had been piling up disciplinary notes for talking, chewing gum, bringing toys to class and not finishing classwork, said his mother, Michelle Fallaw-Gabrielson. 'By no means is my child perfect,' she acknowledged.But she never anticipated the ultimatum delivered at

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The poster child for What's the Matter with Kansas, Sam Brownback is back to his craziness. Sam is sponsoring legislation in the Senate that would allow what he calls free speech in churches. Here is a misleading headline if ever there was one. "GOP Congressman Seeks to 'Restore Free Speech' in Churches"When did churches ever not have the right to free speech? Is there any question where they

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Being the parnoid person I am I call my credit card companies from time to time just to check on the recent transactions and make sure they are all mine. Today I called in and the automated system nearly killed me. The automated voice told me that, "your last transaction was on March 3 for 5 BILLION dollars and zero cents". WHAT?!I initially thought that this must be part of some Bush plan to

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First Democrats criticized President Bush for lying us into a war, running up a record deficit while cutting taxes on the rich and finding new and better ways to screw the poor. We where called anti-American.Next we criticized Alberto Gonzalez for sanctioning torture and being more interested in killing as many Texas death row inmates as possible instead of complying with international treaties.

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This is a great piece from ThinkProgress.org. Here are some of the highlights.CLAIM: “In the year 2018, for the first time ever, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than the government collects in payroll taxes.” [President Bush, 12/11/04]FACT: “In 14 of the past 47 years, including 1975 to 1983, Social Security paid out more in benefits than the government collected in payroll.” [

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To paraphrase Jeff Gannon (or whatever his name is), I think Alan Greenspan has divorced himself from reality. Now he is out pushing a consumption tax, which is Republican speak for a national sales tax. Oh he will never actually call it a sales tax because even he can't morally advocate such a regressive form of taxation. No, instead he will just call it a consumption tax.As the New York Times

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First, new Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer ran a great campaign in that Republican stronghold, and now he is letting Bush have it. After listening to Bush peddle his non-plan to privitize Social Security on Monday, Schweitezer shot back."A no-nonsense rancher and wheat farmer who took office six weeks ago in a Republican state, Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer likened the president's pitch to

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From Voice of America.com"U.S. counter-terrorism officials say al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden recently communicated with his counterpart in Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - urging him to get involved in attacks in the United States.The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not say how the two terrorist masterminds communicated or how U.S. intelligence became aware of

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Todd Epp at Thune Watch and other concerned Democrats are making plans to hold John Thune and the South Dakota press accountable in regards to the Jeff Gannon affair. Here is the plan,-Raise money for radio advertisements. -Hold a news conference calling upon the SD media to ask John Thune to investigate Thune’s ties to Gannon. -Ask Thune to come clean about his ties to Gannon. -Play the radio

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Not only do Republicans have a propensity to lie to us, they also think we are too stupid to realize it. The latest example comes from Kansas (surprise, surprise).Kansas AG Phill Kline "a staunch opponent of abortion, has demanded the medical records of nearly 90 woman and girls who had late-term abortions, saying he needs the material to investigate crimes."What crimes you may ask? Kline says he

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From the Nashua Adovate,"According to Dan Pfeiffer, former spokesman for Tom Daschle--the U.S. Senate Minority Leader until his defeat in the 2004 general election--Jeff Gannon's use of assumed identities was information available to the media as far back as the summer of 2003.It was then, more than a year and a half ago, that Pfeiffer received an e-mail from someone claiming to be a citizen of

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Almost daily Sean Hannity (it's only a matter of time before we find out this weasel is on the Bush/Rove payroll) rants on and on about how Liberal professors are "brainwashing" the youth of America. Like everything else from the Right side of the aisle, this is simply a lie. Exhibit number one is Professor Jon Lauck right here in South Dakota.Before we go any further it is probably appropriate

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We always knew Sibby thought he was smarter than us, but now he has said as much, ( I added the emphasis in the entire post) "But there is still hope. Like me they can get smart, grow up, and become conservatives."Preceding that quote Sibby had this to say, "Todd Epp graciously thanked me for all the traffic I sent his way when I linked to his blog the other day. But when his supporting cast of

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The Bush administration lied to the American people to involve us in Iraq, now they don't even go to the trouble. As tensions escalate with Syria here is Sec Rice gives us for "proof" of Syrian involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri."While acknowledging that the United States does not know who was behind the Monday bombing that killed the former Lebanese

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Here are two quotes from Donald Rumsfeld as he gave testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday. The first is an exchange with Sen Clinton, the second is...well...nonsense I guess."It strikes me as a little odd that we would deploy a system that hasn't succeeded and expect that to serve a deterrent value," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told Rumsfeld during a hearing before

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Democrats have unveiled a Social Security calculator which they cleverly call a Social inSecurity Calculator. All you do is put in annual salary and the year you where born an it does the rest. I have no idea how they came up with these projections and it doesn't really say, but hey, Republicans never the truth get in the way of a good story so why should we? Maybe these numbers are true I don't

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The following is from a NYT Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman:"The Wall Street Journal ran a very, very alarming article from Iran on its front page last Tuesday. The article explained how the mullahs in Tehran - who are now swimming in cash thanks to soaring oil prices - rather than begging foreign investors to come into Iran, are now shunning some of them. The article related how a Turkish mobile-phone

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As mentioned here before, elected Republicans don't really care to actually DO anything about issues like abortion and Social Security reform. All they really want to to do is to continue to have these issues to run campaigns on. If they really cared to do anything on these issues they certainly could, since they own Washington DC at this time. Here is more proof from Sen. Charles Rangle

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