“…the disaster that’s been Obamacare…” So says a Republican Congressman on NPR this morning. That hyperbole matches the language Senator Mike Rounds uses about the Affordable…
Tag: politics
Spinning gossamer metaphors about life rafts and boats, mythologist Mike Rounds has deemed the still figmentary (or at best fragmentary) Republican health care replacement plan “Real Care.” (2020 challengers,…
Those of you exercised about voter fraud—as well as you Congresspeople who meet to certify the vote of the Electoral College today— may want to read…
We can still occasionally learn something from Pat Powers’s press-release blog. For instance, yesterday’s sponsored press release says that career politicians deserve awards: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.)…
I just listened to Rep. Kristi Noem completely avoid a listener question on SDPB about Medicaid expansion. Some public radio listener (not me, I promise!) asked…
More than one of my correspondents has forwarded me this article on frustration among Democrats across the country at the Democratic National Committee’s focus on winning the…
Boy, if there’s one thing Republicans who control the Legislative and Executive Branches hate, it appears to be independent ethics commissions. South Dakota Republican legislators sued to stop…
My friend The Displaced Plainsman doesn’t predict his own return to regular blogging (alas!), but he does offer some pessimistic predictions about the 2017 Legislative Session, including continued…
Ah, memories! Here are my past Top Ten Wish Lists: 2016 2011 2015 2010 2014 2009 2013: no list! Distracted by trip to France! 2008…
Having poked my religious neighbors, I now yield the floor to quasi-fellow Aberdonian Pastor Steve Hickey, who offers this review of South Dakota politics in…