Suffering a paroxysm of anti-Pressler ranting on his blogging deathbed, Pat Powers launches an attack that epitomizes the rottenness of the South Dakota Republican philosophical core. Powers dings Pressler for a 1987 article advocating "an end to the safety net…
Posts tagged as “farm subsidies”
Thanks to the crude, tasteless, yet instructive efforts of fake conservative Annette Bosworth, we all know that recipients of government assistance are weak, dependent animals. At peril of further crudity and tasteless, I present this page from the Environmental Working…
Small-town South Dakota may be struggling to prosper, but our Hutterite neighbors aren't. On Tuesday, the Lake County Commission approved a new Hutterite colony in the northeast quadrant of our county: Gary Hofer said the colony is a branch off…
FEC, IRS, start your engines. Dr. Annette Bosworth confirms various whispers: the political novice plans to announce her intention to run for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, July 16, at noon, at her family farm near Plankinton. The "announcement" comes…
Want to know someone who's not terribly worked up over Rep. Kristi Noem's failure to pass a Farm Bill over her Republican colleague's do-nothingism? Orland farmer Charlie Johnson: The corn has grown about a foot and the sun has rose…
Potential Senate candidate Annette Bosworth visited Oahe Days in Pierre this weekend. No word on whether she actually got up and talked to interested voters, unlike her wasted visit to Brookings Thursday. But she at least snagged the local press.…
The Environmental Working Group has new farm subsidy data up for 2012. The Washington Post summarizes the data with this fun map and a list of the top Congress critters enjoying their slurps at the subsidy trough: Interesting to map…
The conservative American Enterprise Institute howls that the Senate version of the Farm Bill is full of tricks to hide increased spending and anti-free market subsidies. AEI praises the Senate for eliminating the Direct Payments program ($5 billion of savings!),…