UPDATED: Clothing Line Mocking Montana Legislature Debuts Online

Job creation at last? The designer behind a new line of haute apparel has drawn her or his inspiration from the Montana Legislature.

Although Montana legislative session is winding to an end, (if only the GOP would stop taking vacations

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Schweitzer Burns GOP with Red-Hot Cattle Iron

It was a bad day for a few hapless Republican legislators in Montana Wednesday. These young guns from the GOP, who had excitedly volunteered, upon entering the legislature, to carry some of the flagship legislation for the Tea Party, got …

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Analysis: GOP’s “Get Your Women’s Health Care at Walgreens” Strategy Backfires

The national and state budget negotiations are shaping up to be a recipe for disaster for the GOP, largely because the  Republican Party is being held hostage by hard-line right-wing forces: the tea party obsessed with cutting the budget (even though …

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Republican Uncovers Firefighter Suicide Pact Conspiracy

Is James Knox clueless or is he making things up?Montana TEA Party Republican James Knox is in the news again, this time for claiming that he overheard Billings Firefighters plotting to sabotage their own vehicles. He heard the conversation, he says, in a Billings restaurant and he immediately …

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House Speaker Susceptible to Napoleon Complex

The brand of Republican House Speaker Mike Milburn (R-Cascade) is significantly smaller than Gov. Schweitzer’s, and appears sort of…ineffectual.
Schweitzer's veto brand.
Milburn jobs brand.

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Montana GOP Hopeful Might Have Mermaid Fetish

“Much like sirens, mermaids will sing to people or to gods to enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing people to walk off a ship’s deck or to run their ship aground” –Wikipedia article on mermaids.

Former Congressman …

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GOP Legislature Poised to Overturn Citizen Initiatives for First Time in State History

GOP Claimed to Support Will of Voters Before They Opposed It

FLIP: Before the election, GOP leadership claimed they supported ballot initiatives as the will of the voters.

Senate GOP Leader Jeff Essmann, speaks about the sanctity of the ballot

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Montana Democrats Get Some Game

Rep. Betsy HandsRep. Dick BarrettIt’s a proud moment for Montanans.  Democrats in the Montana House of Representatives took the opportunity, during a debate of a prominent piece of the GOP agenda,  to masterfully expose the Republicans for who they really are.  The Montana Lowdown

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Montana’s GOP Leader Melts Down

Montana's GOP Leader Melts DownTwice in the last two days, the Republican president of Montana’s Senate has broken down and sobbed during a session of the Montana Senate because he was unable to muster enough votes for his preferred bills. (March 22, 23,

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Republican Who Took $495,000 in Federal Subsidies Wants to Cut Education, Food Assistance

Senator John Brenden's got federal cash, poor people should suck it up and go without.Welfare queen Montana state Senator  John Brenden (R-Scobey), who in recent times has lined his pockets with half a million smackeroos from US taxpayers for doing nothing, tried Friday to burnish his tea party credentials by lecturing David Ewer, …

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Conservative Scorecard Sparks Latest Battle in Internal GOP Fight

A recent report ranking legislators on conservatism has rankled social conservatives, who are upset that social bills are excluded from the recent conservative scorecard put out by former legislator Roger Koopman and the Montana Conservative Alliance–even though social bills dominate …

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Right-Wing Editor of the Daily Inter Lake is Way Far Gone

Are people paying real money for the Flathead Daily Inter Lake?A week after writing an editorial in which he offered an impassioned defense of birthers, birther bills and the birther movement, Frank Miele–the ultra-right-wing editor of the Flathead Daily Inter Lake–has outdone himself.

Miele’s latest column takes aim at …

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Rightwingers Trying to ‘Poll’ Wool Over Our Eyes

Rightwing radio host Aaron Flint is trying to peddle a political poll he and his young GOP insider friends threw together last week.  Apparently they want to graduate from the sandbox by showing off what they think is a big …

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