Back in 2006, former Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) made national news when he called firefighters “lazy bums’. Three months after that Burns was unemployed and Jon Tester became the new Senator from Montana. Now we have another story, very similar in nature. From TPM: Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), fresh off his Republican primary win, filed […]
The events of the last couple weeks have taken the spotlight from other happenings in the world (rightfully so). While we look towards the gruesome job of recovering the dead and try to figure out how to rebuild the Big Easy and other areas along the Gulf Coast, Bush gets to look to another few […]
We keep hearing horror stories coming from the front lines of Katrina’s aftermath. One that has been echoed numerous times is the lack of helicopters to help the people. This is an alarming issue you think the government would be working hard to correct, but think again. Think Progress picked up on an important point […]