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July 06, 2006
News
The Billings Outpost has three good Articles:
Governor helps orphans; Burns helps leaseholders
Brian Schweitzer perfects nuclear fusion, promises power too cheap to meter.
Burns' bill would allow (but not force) oil and gas leaseholders to donate their leases to the Save-the-Front activists. The enviros could then tear up the leases with Uncle Sam's promise not to issue new ones. The generous leaseholders would then take a tax write-off, shifting the cost to you, me, Aunt Hilda and other taxpayers.
Schweitzer outflanks GOP on tax rebate idea
Like him or loathe him, Schweitzer made a masterful political move, and I've no doubt that the metaphorical Republican cloakroom is steaming with irate strategists trying to figure out some way to take this issue back. After all, control of the next Legislature hangs in the balance.
Do they really think that we are not concerned about our kids being killed and maimed in Iraq, or the size of the national debt, or health care, decent housing and wages? They probably think we don't care about our elected officials taking huge amounts of money from crooked lobbyists either.
Queen City News:
Burns's debate performance gets press pass
the mainstream media has transformed itself into a megaphone for each partisan side. At some point, the media's pious invocations about the importance of a free press ring awfully hollow when the Fourth Estate seems more like a servant to the interests and lies of political opportunists like Burns.
Posted by admin at July 6, 2006 09:12 AM