A South Dakota Moderate

I may not be as edumacated as my esteemed blogging professor colleagues from the north whom seem to think that passing FISA reform without Telcom immunity is a compromise that will weaken the legislation. Nor am I as smart as those that consistently blame the Democrats for holding up this legislation and are in turn [...]

Badlands Blue has a post calling out Mt Blogmore for a negative post in regards to Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s vote on FISA that specifically didn’t include Telcom immunity.
In other words, according to the Rapid City Journal’s blog, Mt. Blogmore, Rep. Herseth Sandlin is an extremist, Bush-hating, terrorist-loving librul because she voted against granting immunity to [...]

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 [...]

On the heels of last week’s useless resolution condemning the MoveOn.org New York Times ad ripping General Petraeus, Rep. Mark Udall from Colorado is supposedly introducing a similar useless resolution on Monday looking to officially condemn Rush Limbaugh’s phony soldiers comments from earlier this week. As with the MoveOn resolution, the Udall version is totally [...]

George Bush is threatening to veto the bipartisan extension of the State Children Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) mainly because he says, falsely, that it will expand coverage to those making as much as $83,000 a year.
The Administration strongly supports reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) which maintains SCHIP’s original purpose of targeting [...]

You are probably reading accounts this morning of President Bush’s speech last night where he proudly announced that US troop levels would be reduced by as much as 30,000 but guess what? According to numerous accounts, it is only because 30,000 troops will have reached the end of their deployments and we don’t have the [...]

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, soon to be just Stephanie Sandlin?, must be moving up the political ladder in Democratic circles as she has been pegged by Presidential candidate John Edwards to deliver tonight’s keynote address on his behalf at the Iowa Farmers Union State Convention.
Des Moines, Iowa - The John Edwards for President campaign announced today [...]

For South Dakotan’s that thought Stephanie Herseth Sandlin had gotten too liberal lately (interesting considering she says she is a Democrat) especially in regards to her association with Nancy Pelosi, never fear, she is back on the conservative track that got her elected in the first place.
Saturday the House voted 227-183 and today Bush signed [...]

Well at least 70 or so of them did, when they wrote a letter to President Bush letting him know the only war funding they will approve from now on will be for redeployment and protection of our troops.
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to inform you that [...]

An article in the National Review Online by Michael O’Brien discusses the 2008 Senate race here in South Dakota and throws in a couple of quotes from one of our local bloggers as well.
Several activists and journalists throughout the state repeat a same decisive factor, as well: Rounds’s wife. “He would have to talk her [...]

It must be a very slow day as several of our righty bloggers have gone to great lengths to find a way to complain about our Democratic Congressional Representative. First PP over at the War College has to dig deep to criticize Stepahanie Herseth Sandlin on a couple votes regarding the slaughtering of wild free [...]