It's not just Mike Rounds who shouts "Obama!" to get votes. The South Dakota Republican Party is fanning anti-Obama sentiment in the District 16 Senate race to protect Senator Dan Lederman from strong Democratic challenger Ann Tornberg. The desperate measure…
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Faux Tea Candidate Rounds Crushed by Good Deficit News
By caheidelberger on 2014.10.16
The Tea Party Express has endorsed Mike Rounds as a real conservative who can "get out-of-control spending under control." HA HA HA ha ha ha ha ha ha—HA HA HA ha ha ha ha! O.K. Fine. Rounds is Tea Party.…
South Dakota Antipathy to Obama Ignores President’s Success
By caheidelberger on 2014.10.09
The majority of South Dakotans don't want Mike Rounds to be their Senator. His failing campaign remains alive only because South Dakotans even more passionately don't want Barack Obama to be their President. Remind voters that Larry Pressler voted for…
Adelstein Endorses Not-Obama in Senate Race
By caheidelberger on 2014.10.07
Former State Senator Stan Adelstein took U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rounds to Israel to rub elbows and burnish his foreign policy cred in May 2013. Now the moderate Rapid City Republican blows the conservative dog whistle and tries to save…
Betty Olson Jokes About ISIS, Recycles Obama Birther Insult
By caheidelberger on 2014.10.06
I can only take so much Betty Olson. That's why I missed Republican Representative's September 9 column. Rep. Olson, who is seeking to switch from House to Senate for District 28, reaches far above her pay grade and tries to…
Obama Oversees Steady Job Improvement: Send More Democrats to Help!
By caheidelberger on 2014.08.06
Hey, Democrats! Do we get a 2014 electoral boost from steadily improving job numbers? Consider: 1. Ever since President Barack Obama's first budget kicked in, unemployment has trended steadily downward: 2. Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, Gallup's Job…
Noem Votes to Sue President, Desires Coup by Judiciary
By caheidelberger on 2014.07.31
Let's see: can't fix the Highway Trust Fund, can't fully fund a veterans health care bill, can't provide child immigrants with basic due process... but with the five-week summer recess just hours away, our Congresswoman Kristi Noem finds time to…
Thanks, SDGOP! Impeachment Talk Boosts Democratic Fundraising
By caheidelberger on 2014.07.30
Hey, remember how South Dakota Republicans embarrassed our great state again in June by passing a resolution calling on the U.S. House to impeach President Obama? Oh, the shame! The perversion of political discourse! I wish they'd never— Wait a…