Poor George! He can't find a free land to locate his darling library. SMU is having second thoughts of donating land to built his lasting "legacy" library. SMU is owned by the United Methodist Church. Guess King George literally believes church and state should be one. Build the damn thing in Crawford, Dubya. Could be that no one will visit; you might have the "legacy" ratings of Warren G. Harding!

Happy Friday to you too, Christy!

I believe! I believe! Dancing in her jammies!

Outside of a shredded copy of the Constitution of the United States, what would Dubya's "liburry" have in it? A vault for all the documents he's "classified" so no one can see how corrupt and inept his administration was???

Oh no the Republicans are mad at Nancy Polosi for talking against Bush. Poor Nancy will not sleep anymore knowing Bush is mad at her. Why is everyone picking on George Bush?? Is is it because he has no family values?? Not him. Hes a born again Christian. But only when he wants to get elected.

"Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the new chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, is offering special interests a chance next month to go skiing and snowmobiling in Big Sky country. All it takes is a $2,000 donation per person or a $5,000 donation from a political action committee, according to a "Save the Date" solicitation his Glacier PAC sent out to lobbyists.
If lobbyists miss the first outing, they can still catch Baucus this summer for fly-fishing or horseback riding at "Camp Baucus," the invitation promises."
The above is from today's MSNBC reports. If this is ethics "reform" we need to revise our dictionaries. Unfortunately, neither party in Congress has been able to wean itself from the huge amounts of money avialable from lobbyists and special interest groups. I voted for chage in November and all I got was this watered down attempt at ethics reform. November 08 could be another vote for change if this is the best we can do.

The Ethics of Reform Bill is long overdue. I am glad to see this bill overhauled. I believe anyone found violating this bill should be ousted.

The Ethics of Reform Bill is long overdue. I am glad to see this bill overhauled. I believe anyone found violating this bill should be ousted.

This bill is just a band-aid on a shotgun wound. We need a successful and forceful campaign reform bill against lobbyists

MONEY has been called the "mothers milk" of politics. The new so called ethics reform bill is the "low hanging fruit" of political corruption. Senators want to keep money in the system. Jack Abrahamoff is the "poster boy" for corrupt lobbyists who funnel bribes to lawmakers.
OUTLAWING LOBBYISTS is not even on the politicians radar screen, even though Abramhoff shows they are little more than political money launderers. The new ethics bill is no more than "smoke and mirrors" with minor changes
that allows lobbyists to sit next to Senators on chartered airplanes and offer bribes. No rules were created to prevent bribing Senators by opening swiss bank accounts in their childrens names, or to hire reletives as "consultants"
except wives to serve as money conduits.
This bill even failed to prohibit corporate jet rides at all, with Senators refusing to give up that perk despite evidence of corruption.
WAKE UP AMERICA - Politicians do what they want, when they want. DNC and GOP alike.
Add to the fact elected leaders don't want to "listen" to the voters. The overwhelming majority ignore letters from voters unless a campaign contribution check is attached.
They only pretend to listen at election time.
Lobbyists write laws and Senators pass them.
Until lobbyists are outlawed and money is driven from politics, corruption will always trump all else. Let the smokescreen begin voters.
Besides. Al Gore proved the popular vote is little more than a "fundraising campaign", while the electoral college is the smoke filled room
that elects our nations leaders. WAKE UP AMERICA.
Ethics in politics is no different from the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. A big lie for kids.

Anti-Dukster

Well, it's a start. In 2008, we can fire some more Republi-lites, and maybe even get the DNC to come up with a real candidate for president instead of these re-tread Republi-lites that they keep pushing.
BTW "Montana Max" Bacchus is coming up for re-election in 2008. Hopefully we can find a replacement for his Republi-lite butt. Then if we can get rid of rubber-stamp Republican (non) Representative Denny Rheburg, we will actually have THREE Montana representatives in Washington instead of only Sen. Jon Tester.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it: Woodrow Wilson

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The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

Compliments of INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it: Woodrow Wilson

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The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.
Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

Compliments of INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D)who declared his opposition to the Iraq War way back before it ever began, delivered Democrats' national radio address in advance of President Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday. The address as follows compliments of David Sirota:

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http://www.dnc.org/a/2007/01/governor_brian.php

Governor Brian Schweitzer Delivers Democratic Radio Address

January 20, 2006 - Helena, MT

Good morning. I'm Brian Schweitzer, the Governor of Montana, the Big Sky Country.

On Tuesday, President Bush will deliver his annual State of the Union Address. He is expected to talk about the war in Iraq and the need for our country to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. I wanted to share some of my thoughts about these topics, which are very important to all Americans.

Along with many people across the country, I have serious concerns about the President's plan to increase U.S. troop levels in Iraq. His plan is just more of the same.

I lived and worked in the Middle East for six years, Salam Alaikum to those who speak Arabic. There, I spent time with many Muslim families and like our families in the United States they want opportunities, freedom to work and live as they choose and the ability to make their country a better place for future generations.

Mr. President there are animosities between Sunni and Shiite people in the Middle East that have developed over centuries. Outsiders can not resolve this conflict unless the Iraqi people want security and freedom as least as much as us.

The American people expect, and our troops and military families deserve, a real plan for success in Iraq that includes political solutions as well as military action.

Mr. President I heard you say that you want to embed American troops with the Iraqi army in Baghdad. Please, don't embed our men and women within Baghdad beside untested and potentially corrupt members of the Iraqi military.

We could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform for the role that they play in protecting Americans at home and abroad. No one has sacrificed more than the military families at home who have a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Democratic Governors were helping to reduce our dependence on foreign oil long before President Bush discovered our oil addiction just last year in his last State of the Union Address.

Here in Montana, for example, I have been working hard to promote renewable energy development and conservation, also to promote the development of coal to liquids facility as a bridge to new sustainable energy development and as an important step in reducing Montana's dependence on foreign oil.

Montana is producing renewable forms of energy including wind power and bio-diesel from oil seed crops.

In Kansas, Governor Kathleen Sebelius has been promoting ethanol on the national stage. And she has made alternative energy a priority for her second term. In Pennsylvania, Governor Ed Rendell has set energy efficiency standards for all state government vehicles.

This week I was proud of an action championed by Democrats in Congress. A bill was passed that will repeal $14 billion in subsidies given to big oil companies.

The legislation also creates a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to invest in clean, renewable energy resources and alternative fuels, promote new energy technologies, develop greater efficiency and encourage energy conservation.

Last year Montana oil producers increased their oil production and we will increase it again this year. Congress should not be giving subsidies to multinational corporations to develop oil fields for foreign dictators. The market is driving the exploration boom in Montana, not freebies form Congress.

We have enough energy resources and green technology in the United States to enable us to stop relying on foreign dictators to supply us with fuel. Along with a smart strategy in Iraq, our energy independence can make us stronger and safer.

We Americans use 6.5 billion barrels of oil a year. We only produce 2.5 billion ourselves. We import 4 billion from some of the world's worst dictators. I've got a plan.

We can save 1 billion barrels through conservation. Things like more efficient cars, homes and appliances. We can produce another 1 billion barrels of bio-fuels with crops like corn, soybeans, canola and camilina. My hope is Americans can produce 2 billion barrels a year from our enormous coal reserves to a clean-burning fuel for about $1.20 a gallon and for the next fifty years only touch a small fraction of our coal supplies.

We can achieve energy independence in 10 years, create a whole new industry with hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, and you'll never have to send children and grandchildren to war in the Middle East again.

Mr. President lets create hundreds of thousands of jobs in America by producing our own clean fuels, bring our men and women home, and stop spending money in Iraq.

This is Brian Schweitzer, the Governor of Montana. Thank you for listening. God bless your family and God bless America.

Great Job! It is about time and long overdue. Good Work.

I'm thankful that the Democratic Party followed thru on their initial promise to minimize corruption in Congress.

But, until the promise of an Independent Office of Public Integrity is kept, the majority of American's will continue to distrust Congress (both Party's).

There is far too much power and authority over our nation's treasury, which continues to corrupt both from within and out (over 30,000 lobbyists).

The Ethics Office continues to be a criminal embarassment, swaying in the wind with each election and protecting both Party members.

If the "new" Democratic Party is serious about real and consistent oversight, they need to enact legislation in 2007 - in fullfilling their promise of a permanent and independent Office of Publice Integrity.

The voters that provided them their House and Senate majority leaderships and this significant opportunity on Nov. 7, 2006, expect this long overdue office to become a reality.

All Americans, and especially fisical conservatives, need to continue to speak out for this critical component of Congress, or their will be consequences in 2008.

Thankyou and stand firm!

I'm thankful that the Democratic Party followed thru on their initial promise to minimize corruption in Congress.

But, until the promise of an Independent Office of Public Integrity is kept, the majority of American's will continue to distrust Congress (both Party's).

There is far too much power and authority over our nation's treasury, which continues to corrupt both from within and out (over 30,000 lobbyists).

The Ethics Office continues to be a criminal embarassment, swaying in the wind with each election and protecting both Party members.

If the "new" Democratic Party is serious about real and consistent oversight, they need to enact legislation in 2007 - in fullfilling their promise of a permanent and independent Office of Publice Integrity.

The voters that provided them their House and Senate majority leaderships and this significant opportunity on Nov. 7, 2006, expect this long overdue office to become a reality.

All Americans, and especially fiscal conservatives, need to continue to speak out for this critical component of Congress, or their will be consequences in 2008.

Thankyou and stand firm!

Thanks so much MarthaA, you're amazing. Keep up the great work. God bless.

Thanks so much MarthaA, you're amazing. Keep up the great work. God bless.

Democracy for America

In the 18th Century democracy was not empowered in the Constitution of the United States by the founding fathers, but commercial interests and the interests of capital were both empowered in the Constitution of the United States.

In the 21st Century, after 230 years of claims by governments of the United States of democracy, that is in fact mythical rather than actual, "WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES" must empower democracy alongside commercial interests and the interests of capital.

In the 21st Century, 21st Century Anti-Federalists must get in front of a democratic revolution and reclaim the Anti-Federalists dream of democracy, the interests of the commonwealth and subsistence interests of the general population, so that a dynamic balance can be enforced by way of the Constitution of the United States.

After 230 years of mythical democracy in the United States, it is time for a change; it is time for actual Democracy for America, rather than continuing with mythical democracy that was originated and perpetuated by the Federalists and the tradition of the Federalists that empowered commercial interests and the interests of capital at the expense of democracy.

Thomas G. Miller

It is about time. But it will not last because they are hidden in all bills sent to the President for his signature.

Democrats as well as Republicans.

It is about time. But it will not last because they are hidden in all bills sent to the President for his signature.

Democrats as well as Republicans.

About time/Go Dems/

Good stuff, this bill, but it's not enough.

Greed is almost as inherent to human nature as is the reproductive instinct. It's a survival trait. All animals of high intellect possess it. Felines, canines, ursines, and the higher primates (the great apes [that's us]) will strive to obtain and maintain more territory than is literally requisite. It's the old "saving for a rainy day" analogy. The earth is a sphere of finite resources and indefinite populations. Supply and demand wield their magic wand. Those who want and can have; those lacking continue to lack. Regarding "greedy"-- if you are human-- it's not, "Are you or aren't you?" It's "To what degree are you?"

I should like to see the corporations heavily fined for conspiring to persuade Congress against the populus. Though I admit that I don't know how such a crime could be proved. "Due process" is, a priori, frought with limitations.

I should like to see everything that representative and senators do made public. Every conversation and transaction. Implant a microphone in their chests at the swearing-in ceremonies and never turn it off. Hang four or five convicted congressmen at The Jefferson Memorial and we might see a glint of redress. At least, somewhat. This is, of course, ridiculous. I said only that I SHOULD like to see it happen. Direct democracy, ala Athens, would seem more likely.

Proffering band-aids for shotgun wounds is a darn good way to put it. That's pretty much what government does, is it not? (I wonder if Vice President Cheney didn't offer Harry Whittington a bandaid?) Within the context of this "great experiment" that is American democracy we deem there to be terror at the prospect of fixing anything too permanently, of kicking too much delinquent butt.

I like the citing of Tyler posted by _MarthaA. It reads like a concise synopsis of the history and apparent destiny of my country.

Sad stuff indeed.

I know that many sweet hearted idealists frequent this website. I apologize for any offense I might have wrought.

Most facts are brutal. Accept this, or maintain harbor in denial. Might makes right and money is going to keep talking. Utopia is a considered exhibit at Disney World.

Have I been ranting?