Saturday, August 12, 2006

Angie on rural communities

Angie Paccione is in the Greeley Trib too, talking about farmers and ranchers and energy independence.
First, renewable energy improves America's security while putting dollars into farmer’s pockets. While special interests work to keep us dependent, farmers and ranchers feel firsthand the effects of our political and economic dependence on foreign oil from unstable regions. Production and transport costs affect their bottom line. To start, we need to keep more energy dollars local, through consistent support for small wind systems, wind farms, bio-fuels, solar, cellulose ethanol and the ability to sell surplus energy locally and regionally. Community energy independence makes America energy independent.

"Sofistikation"

Poor Marilyn. The Greeley Tribune's columnist, Mike Peters, is making fun of her again.
So, there I was, driving safely on the Greeley streets, eating a cinnamon roll, drinking coffee, reading a book and listening to Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee on the radio, when all of a sudden, Our Favorite CongressGal Marilyn Musgrave is on the radio and she says, "I just wish the Tribune was a little more ... (thoughtful pause) ... sophisticated.''
One thing leads to another . . .
Hence (How about that, Marilyn? "Hence" is a really sophisticated word) Hence, if we put all the meanings of the word together, "sophistication" means "an overbearing,tiresome woman who sucks the lifeblood out of people who don't agree with her."

Gee, Marilyn, does that sound like somebody we know?

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Pro-Torture proud

Bush in bid to protect top staff:
The Bush administration has drafted changes to the War Crimes Act that would protect US policymakers from possible retrospective criminal charges for authorising humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.

The move marks the administration’s latest effort to deal with how the US should treat people taken into custody in President George Bush’s campaign against terror.

Musgrave in Loveland

Business owners and managers are invited to tell U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave their thoughts on health care at 1 p.m. Thursday in Loveland.

The hearing is conducted by the Small Business Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment, and Government Programs. Musgrave and fellow subcommittee member John Shadegg, R-Ariz., will attend.

The hearing, titled "Health Care and Small Business — Real Options for Colorado Businesses,” will be at the Loveland City Council Chambers, 500 E. Third St. in Loveland.

This is hilarious. Musgrave is so concerned with looking congressional that she forgets to actually work. Not going to work.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Heroic Washington cronyism


Remember when Marilyn Musgrave defended Tom DeLay?

Musgrave issued a statement, calling DeLay "a talented leader (who takes on) Washington's unwillingness to reform." "I support Tom DeLay because of his success and stewardship in creating change, which, as a result, have made him a prime target for several slanderous claims," the statement read. "Instead of debating the merits of substantive policies that are helping Americans in their daily lives, MoveOn is playing a game of distraction by creating ever-changing accusations about Leader DeLay."
No joke.

Now another one of her cronies, Bob Ney, is out of a job. Here's how John Boehner convinces these people to do what he wants:
House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) met with Ney last week to urge him to step aside, reminding him that with a son in college and a daughter nearing college age, he will need money, according to several congressional Republican aides. If he lost his House seat for the party, Boehner is said to have cautioned, Ney could not expect a lucrative career on K Street to pay those tuition bills, along with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees piling up.
Wow! Now that's standing up for the integrity of the institution! Heroic leadership! I wonder how he gets Marilyn to say "yes."

Oh yeah, and Marilyn Musgrave only took $5,000 from Bob Ney.

Workin' hard


Here's some Rocky Mountain Politics for you, Musgrave style:

Lamborn Election Day shenanighans–via Musgrave staff
Tuesday August 08th 2006, 9:44 am
Filed under: Uncategorized

Word on the street has it that staffers and volunteers from Cong. Marilyn Musgrave’s campaign were out last night pulling up all the signs at polling places for all the opponents of Doug Lamborn in CD-5. They were reported to Colorado Springs Police who ignored the situation.

Their plan was to give Lamborn an advantage by causing the other candidates, whose remaining sign resources would obviously be dwindling in these last hours of the primary election, to scramble to provide a presense for voters coming into the polling place.

It’s just another in a long line of election games by the Lamborn campaign.

And it's Musgrave's boy Jon Hotaling who got loaned to Doug Lamborn, whose Colorado Christian Coalition bro' Mark Hotaling who has been such a busy, busy boy these days. Looks like all it got them was an FEC investigation.

Musgrave in trouble

Musgrave's in trouble, says the Greeley Tribune. Even the farmers are pissed:
Nathan Gonzales, political editor of the Rothenberg Report, says Musgrave is still highly regarded in conservative circles. But a key voter base may be slipping away.

Some Republican farmers who supported her in 2004 are questioning whether she is fighting hard enough for their interests, said Jimmie Dean of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, which does not endorse candidates.

"Not enough dollars have been coming back" to farmers, Dean said.

Roland Naibauer, president of the Weld County Farmer's Union, puts it bluntly.

"She hasn't done much for agriculture," he said. "She should do a better job or quit."

In particular, Naibauer thinks she hasn't worked hard enough for drought relief. Musgrave pushed for an emergency appropriations bill containing $4 billion for farmers suffering from drought, but despite her efforts, the money was cut from the final bill.

Musgrave did successfully petition the Farm Service Agency to open up conservation reserve lands in several counties, including Weld, to emergency haying and grazing because of tough drought conditions.

Nevertheless, Ray Peterson, a La Salle cattle rancher who voted against Musgrave in 2004, is poised to do it again in November.

"I'd vote for Paccione," he said. "She seems to be more concerned about our water issues."

Musgrave twice brought in Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., to Weld County to give farmers a chance to speak directly to federal decision-makers.

"These town meetings don't go anywhere," Peterson said. "I'm not impressed."
Source: SquareState

Debate!

The Musgrave Watch says Marilyn Musgrave has agreed to a debate in CO-04!