The right-wing noise machine is ramping up its effort to prop up its failing worldview with the Missouri River flooding. Right-wing blogs are moving beyond citing these floods as evidence of government's inherent ineptitude to assert that the floods result…
Posts tagged as “flooding”
(via Larry Kurtz, via Montana Cowgirl!) South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard talks about self-reliance a lot. Montana state legislator Tom Burnett, Republican from Bozeman, takes self-reliance very seriously. He says Missouri River flood victims should turn down FEMA assistance and…
More image over substance: South Dakota State Senator Dan Lederman and the state GOP are all a-Twitter over Congresswoman Kristi Noem's attention to the flooding on the Missouri River. She toured the flood area, made a speech on the House…
As we rush to sandbag homes in Pierre, Ft. Pierre, Yankton, and Dakota Dunes, and as some residents of those areas prepare for awful long-term evacuation, Tom Lawrence of the Mitchell Daily Republic wonders why we didn't take action sooner:…
President Obama, Navy Seals, and U.S. spies have killed Osama bin Laden. They have also killed every other news story for at least a couple days. So amidst the jubilation—and let's think about this a moment: when we have killed…