A South Dakota Moderate

If you have no real ammunition to counter your critics what do you do? In the case of King George and his cronies, you make stuff up.
Bush suggested last week that Democrats are promising voters to block additional money for continuing the war. Vice President Cheney this week said critics “claim retreat from Iraq would [...]

The DOD is going Hollywood. The old axiom that all publicity is good publicity definitely isn’t the case when it comes to the Bush Administration and the military so they have decided to take bids on a $20 million contract to hire a public relations firm to parse all the news coming from Iraq in [...]

The latest talking point that some Right-Wingers are using to bash the Left with is their perceived belief that some south-paws are obsessed with the death/assassination of George Bush.
The liberal media and the far left fringe are so immature it is ridiculous. This can be see daily in with their pentiant for gutter mouth commentary, [...]

You would expect that Governor Rounds would be catching some heat over the debacle that was the called off execution of Elijah Page if for anything because of election year politics and that has been the case for the most part.
Jack Billion was somewhat critical, thought not exceedingly so, of the decision as you would [...]

When you are the “King of Pork Barrel Spending” what do you do to prevent the public from being able to monitor government spending? You put a secret hold on the bill that would setup a public database that would allow anyone to search through all recipients of federal grants, contracts, and other payments.
The proposed [...]

Just a quick note. For those looking for the South Dakota Politics and Elections blog, it has been merged with this site. All posts and comments have been moved over. If you were one of the regular readers using the RSS feed, please update your reader to this rss feed.
I am sorry for any inconvienence [...]

Governor Rounds’ decision to put Elijah Page’s execution into the hands of the state legislature next Winter could again spark the debate as to whether the state should be involved in the execution business in the first place.
Rep. Ryan Olson, R-Onida, another death penalty supporter, said Tuesday’s delay will focus attention on the issue.
“There’s no [...]

Exactly what does Larry Long do in Pierre other than write ballot explanations that get overturned? It sure isn’t keeping the Governor informed on state law, or was this the plan all along?
How can Governor Rounds appease both sides of the issue? Easy, he waits until the last minute to “figure out” (see first paragraph) [...]

From the Argus:
South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds said he will stay the execution of Elijah Page because of a problem with state law.
At issue: The state planned to execute Page with three drugs, but state law outlines only two.
“I asked that we go back through and confirm and review the existing statutes,” Rounds said at [...]

It seems Don “Corleone” Rumsfeld is unhappy and thinks that terrorists are manipulating the media to influence those of us in the West.
“That’s the thing that keeps me up at night,” he said during a question-and-answer session with about 200 naval aviators and other Navy personnel at this flight training base for Navy and Marine [...]

Sebastian Mallaby in yesterday’s WaPo tries to document his belief that Democrats are all of a sudden anti Wal-Mart in an apparent shift in away from the globalization ideals that they once fought for.
While it is true that many Democrats have in fact moved away from Wal-Mart as he so deftly describes, it isn’t Wal-Mart [...]

In his third ruling in a little over a week, Judge Max Gors has instructed Attorney General Larry Long to change his ballot explanation. This time Judge Gors has instructed Long to add context to his video lottery explanation to provide perspective to the $112 million in lost revenues.
Gors ruled that the explanation is truthful [...]