WOW! The National Republican Senatorial Committee paid for an ad that attacks the Republican budget in Congress last month — and appears to have spent quite a lot doing it. At the time, NRSC officials did not comment on the commercial run by the Montana Republican Party on behalf of Rep. Denny Rehberg, who is […]
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 […]
A post-election e-mail to executives at the drug company GlaxoSmithKline details just how tough. “We now have fewer allies in the Senate,” says the internal memo, obtained by The Washington Post. “Thus, there is greater risk over the next two years that bad amendments will be offered to pending legislation.” The company’s primary concerns are […]