A South Dakota Moderate

At least that is what MSNBC talking head Chris Matthews predicts.
Chris Matthews has made his call — John Thune, a freshman senator from South Dakota, will be John McCain’s running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
Matthews informed the world — as well as Thune himself — of his prediction while the MSNBC John Thune senator [...]

Lowell over at Badlands Blue posts on our Democratic representation’s position on a bill currently making the rounds in Congress that would force pharmacist’s to fill prescriptions even if they have moral objections for doing so. Being the mouthpiece of the Democratic party he prints statements from both Tim Johnson and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s camps [...]

Pork and earmarks seem to be the buzzwords of the day on the heels of the Tim Johnson sponsored $1M earmark for the Daschle Center for Public Service and Representative Democracy (what a name, how much of the $1M is for the building sign?) at SDSU. When talking pork and politics you seem to get [...]

Yesterday I wrote how Senator John Thune wants to send $1M in tax dollars a year to allow 3 passengers a day to fly out of Brookings and this morning I see that Senator Tim Johnson is looking to waste some of our tax dollars as well. Apparently not wanting to be outdone by his [...]

When Democrats talk subsidies, i.e. the recent attempts to pass the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Republicans complain that the government shouldn’t be involved in the health care business or that it would benefit people that can afford to insure themselves but when the subsidies are in the name of business, they become necessary all [...]

The Senate yesterday again voted on a revised bill that would overhaul the State Children’s Health Insurance program adding another 4 million kids to the 6 million already covered. The bill passed 64-30 which was again short of the 2/3rds majority that would be needed to override the promised veto from President Bush. Let the [...]

As President Bush prepares to veto the State Children’s Health Insurance Program or SCHIP as early as tomorrow, I came across an interesting quote from our illustrious junior Senator, John Thune. As you may or may not be aware Thune is against expanding the program because he says that it would cover people that make [...]

John Thune has apparently earned a new nickname, Mr. Obvious, after his speech during the sleep over held in the Senate last night.
We’re taking a lot of casualties in Iraq because that’s where they are killing our soldiers. That’s the reason we’re taking on casualties in Iraq, because that’s where our soldiers are.”
Thune also gets [...]

For every soldier that believes as Bush does that we still belong in Iraq their are many many more that think differently. Do you think Bush or any of his supporters in the Senate who recently shot down an attempt to bring to a vote the Democrats plan to start pulling troops out would take [...]

Ok, apparently I spoke too soon on the Senate adding an amendment to a defense authorization bill as the Senate has blocked the proposal by Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman and supported by South Dakota’s own John Thune that would have followed the House’s lead and prevented the FCC from ever re-implementing the Fairness Doctrine. I [...]

The War College had a post yesterday on the GOP going ga-ga over a pretty much dead issue regarding the Fairness Doctrine that was killed during the Reagan years but briefly made a comeback a while back when a few Democrats, including no-chance in hell Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich and Dick Durbin, tried to resurrect [...]

John Thune has “commented” on the commutation of Scooter Libby by President Bush and as usual he sidesteps the tough questions.
Thune says he’s kind of a tough law and order guy and believes in equal justice under the law. But he says it could be argued that the sentence was too harsh, and the president [...]