Joe Balyeat has resigned from the Bat Crap Crazy Legislature to become the new leader of the Montana TEA Party. The Washington D.C. TEA Party booster club Americans for Prosperity has struggled with keeping and finding leaders since it started meddling in Montana politics in…
Bye Bye, Birther Last week, we saw the demise of a right wing lunatic. You may remember Bob Wagner, the Montana state legislator, for his appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 in which he defended his special birther bill which would have forbidden President Obama…
The folks at the Western Ag Reporter understand that what goes on inside the mind of TEA Party Republican Rep. Krayton Kerns is important. So important, in fact, that his words merited front page real estate in the last edition of the paper. This…
Great Falls City Commission candidate Cyndi Baker, who campaigned against school district spending, then turned around and sought a district paycheck. But it’s worse then that, as the Great Falls Tribune reports, Baker tried to threaten the local government for taxpayer funded payola in the…
It is every astroturf special interest front group’s worst nightmare: the moment when, despite their best efforts to carefully orchestrate each facet of the campaign, reality comes crashing down–sending the movement careening into crackpot-ville for good. This is that moment for Americans for Prosperity, the…
The leader of the Billings Montana Shrugged TEA Party and a TEA Party Republican state lawmaker have been caught posting remarks online that imply support for shooting their political opponents. The incident comes on the heels of another Montana TEA Party scandal. TEA Party leader…
Interesting doings over at the Whitefish Facebook community Informed Whitefish, where TEA Party Republican Derek Skees (R-Whitefish Kalispell) has blanketed the site over the past few days with his unique TEA Party views. Unfortunately it seems instead of getting in line with the views of…
Montana Republican Jeff Essmann’s campaign for Governor hasn’t exactly taken off, and there is no sign of things getting better for him any time soon. Take his recently uncovered remarks to the TEA Party convention in Helena during the 2011 Legislative Session, which Essmann used…
Good news for democrats today from the Whitefish Pilot. A Whitefish attorney, city council member, and judge has announced he will run for the Whitefish House seat (HD 4) currently held by TEA party Republican Rep. Derek Skees, (R-Whitefish Kalispell.) Kudos to Mr. Tom Muri,…
The man who brought us every type of racist, sexist, and homophobic bill or vote this legislative session (as well as other wacky tea baggery and antics) is taking his act to Nashville, probably not as a country western star. There are three things that…
TEA Party Cancelled Due to Lack of Turnout In spite of promised appearances by both Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, the national TEA Party rally planned for this fall has been cancelled due to lack of interest. So much for the Bachmann buzz. Roll Call…
Tea Partiers are not an intelligent lot. A tipster recently emailed me about an incident in Bozeman. As the tipster points out, the incident was actually nothing more than a guest appearing on a radio show hosted by a Tea Party leader. The guest was…
I would have loved to see Dennis Rehberg’s mustache twitch as he read this story about himself, headlined “House earmarks morph into ‘programmatic requests.’” First, a quick 101: A “programmatic request” is simply a request that a member of Congress makes when she or he believes…
At the Montana GOP Convention last weekend, Republican faithful rejected a slate of TEA party people running for Republican state party office, showing that when it comes to the TEA party, for the moment anyway sanity has prevailed. GOP gubernatorial candidate Corey Stapleton even commented on…
