Fox News: “Bat-crap” Crazy Legislature Could Keep MT Gov Seat with Dems

More bad new for republican gubernatorial hopefuls this week. Voter backlash in reaction to the TEA party legislature, Fox News reports:

“could keep the governorship of the Big Sky state in Democratic hands.”

The crazy bills that the Montana …

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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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TEA Partiers Plan to Gather at MT Capitol with Weapons

Just when you thought the Montana Legislature couldn’t get any crazier, this post from the TEA Party forum Edberry.com appeared in the blog inbox.

TEA Party Plans to Storm Montana Capitol Building with WeaponsWhat does “Extra-Conservative” TEA Party leader Tim Ravndal mean by a “very very very loud message” …

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Nutjob Bills in the Montana Legislature

For your reading pleasure, here are some of the major pieces of legislation that have been put forward by the Tea Party Republicans who are now in control of the legislature.  This is not a joke. These are real bills, …

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Some Questions On the Montana GOP’s Militia Proposal

Tim Ravndal kindly shared with the rest of the world last night the real meaning of Wendy Warburton’s  (R-Havre)  HB 278.

Why do we need a militia?  What’s wrong with the Montana National Guard?  Does Warburton have a …

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Nutwatch: Meanwhile

Perhaps you’ve wondered what the more mainstream, Main Street Republicans in the Montana Legislature have been doing as the TEA Party wing takes the legislature off course with nutty bills. (Like the birther bill up today in House Admin–and …

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Lunacy in the Legislature

Rep. David Howard (R-TEA Park City)The black helicopters are circling this session, especially around the tin-foil bedecked head of one T.E.A. Party Republican, Rep. David Howard, who (mis)represents the voters of the Park City Montana area, House District 60.

Howard bills always draw the craziest …

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Who Did Rehberg Spend SOTU ‘Date Night’ With? Teabaggers!

For Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, Montana’s millionaire Congressman was one of the few members of Congress who thought it best to sit with his right-wing buddies instead of reaching across the aisle.

Rehberg at the State of the Union Speech...is that Alexander and Scalise he's sitting next to?Look closely at this photo, …

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Ripped from the Headlines: Republican Bills Could Legalize Fake Lawyering

You just can’t make this stuff up.

The Law & Order television franchise is famous for “ripping from the headlines,” that is to say, taking real-life crimes and other news stories and then fictionalizing them and incorporating them into the …

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Rehberg’s Earmark Hypocrisy Causes Rumblings in Montana T.E.A. Party

It appears that not all TEA party members in Montana blindly accept that Denny Rehberg is really for controlling spending, after this article came out revealing that members of the so-called Congressional TEA party caucus had taken more than $1 …

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Gov Candidates Personify Cracks in Unstable TEA Party Republican Alliance

The GOP 2012 gubernatorial hopefuls this week struggled to define themselves in the era of the unstable new TEA Party Republican alliance.

Former Congressman Rick Hill, stealing a line from Derek Skees, of all people, in a statement thick with …

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MT TEA Party Lawsuit Part of National Religious Right-Wing GOP Strategy

The Helena IR reported yesterday that the Billings “Montana Shrugged” TEA Party faction is suing the state to invalidate Montana laws that regulate sunshine in campaign  spending and reporting in politics.

The lawsuit, filed with the help of the James

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MT TEA Party Republican Makes National TEA Party Exposé as “One of the TEA Party’s Most Radical Candidates”

Today’s exposé of a secret TEA Party mega-millionaire donor in Mother Jones also reveals that the secret donor is a supporter  of Derek Skees:

Thompson is also active in Montana politics, where [he] has supported one of the tea party’s most

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