Tagged: veto brand

Posted: March 2, 2012 at 7:01 am

A Birther is Back

Montana Representative "Birther" Bob WagnerOne of America’s top TEA Party imbeciles has called for President Obama to prove that he is eligible to be on the Montana ballot, or else have his name removed from it.

Bob Wagner, the Montana state representative who once told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that a person is ineligible to run for president unless both parents were born in America, is back at it again.  Reviving Birtherism, Wagner has sent a letter to the Montana Secretary of State (she oversees elections), commanding her to
“prove that Obama is eligible to hold the office he usurped in 2008, or take him off the ballot.”
Wagner believes that Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud; and that even if the certificate were authentic, Obama would still not be a true American citizen because his father impregnated his mother while visiting America.

Alas, Wagner’s letter is the last thing Montana Republicans need right now.  They swept the legislature in 2010 in a whirlwind of Tea Party hysteria, only to be utterly humiliated by Wagner and his crowd of Tea Party loons as they coopted the legislature and began passing crazy legislation, calling for an end to the United Nations and a reversion to the gold standard. It eventually proved such disaster for the GOP that the moderate Republicans fled the scene, and voted with Governor Schweitzer and the Democrats.

Schweitzer, meanwhile, had a field day kicking Wagner and his right-wing pals in the ribs.  He even staged an event on the lawn of the Capitol building, where he pulled out a red hot cattle iron that said “VETO” and used it to “brand” a few crazy bills, Wagner’s among them.  Rachel Maddow did a funny segment on it, highly recommended.

And there’s an even larger problem for the Montana GOP, a dark cloud on the horizon.  If Jon Tester wins his race for the US Senate, there is a good chance that for the first time in history, Montana will not have a single state-wide Republican officeholder.  Right now, the state’s at-large congressman, Dennis Rehberg, is the last GOP statewide politician, and he’s chosen to give up his house seat to challenge Tester for the Senate.  All of the other nine state-wide politicians in Montana are Democrats, even though just over half of the state remains solidly and strongly conservative (Gore and Kerry got 33 and 36 percent in Montana respectively; Obama got 46, but its unlikely he’ll get much over 43 this time around.)

And with the continued antics of nutcases like Bob Wagner, Democrats have a bright future in Big Sky Country.

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 7:27 pm

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 their hind ends burned with a red-hot poker.

Indeed, their dreams of legislative glory ended in a blaze of smoke and fire on the steps of the Montana Capitol today as the Governor pulled out his branding iron and burned a giant VETO onto a pile of Tea Party bills. It is unlikely that the GOP will be able to override any of the vetoes.

Schweitzer Vetoes HB 306

Here is the raw VIDEO of the event.

Some of these right-wing idiot legislators even wandered outside as the party was getting going, not comprehending what all the smoke in the air was from until they saw their bill number on the branding board.

The bills were classic GOP crap, including: a voter suppression bill, which tried to make it harder for people register to vote; a bill to permit the use of cyanide by large gold mining companies (companies that funded many of the GOP legislators campaigns); a bill to give sheriffs authority over the federal government in terror investigations; and a bill to overturn a voter-approved initiative to allow seriously ill patients to use marijuana legally.

Here are a few more choice photos among those making the rounds on Facebook today.

Hot Veto Irons in the fire

Vetoing the Voter Suppression Bill

Another pic of the veto of the GOP's voter suppression bill

UPDATE: The event appeared on Rachel Maddow last night:

Says Maddow ” this is so much better than politics has a right to be.”  Here’s the video:

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Posted: April 9, 2011 at 10:19 pm

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.