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 [...]

I missed this a few days ago due to my raw sewage issues but our esteemed Senator Tim Johnson was quoted, actually as is normally the case lately, one of his his mouthpieces, Steve Jarding, was quoted as saying that Johnson supports Barack Obama but will vote for Hillary Clinton at the convention if she [...]

For all the mudslingers that spent a large amount of time and resources smearing Steve Kirby in anticipation of his running against Tim Johnson, it’s a good thing mud washes off easily.
“My family and I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and encouragement from many of our South Dakota friends in recent weeks [...]

As the onslaught towards Steve Kirby by the SDDP funded website Badlands Blue continues despite the fact he hasn’t announced his candidacy, maybe the real question behind the smear campaign should be why are they dedicating so much time and energy towards him in the first place?
- Why is Virginia based blogger Lowell Feld one [...]

Are smear campaigns becoming an accepted tactic in South Dakota? If you go by the results of an unscientific poll run over at SD Watch you might think so. According to Epps’ poll, 59% of those responding think that the smear campaign being run by the Tim Johnson spin machine is fair while only 38% [...]

After 2 weeks in the land of fruits and nuts and after a remarkably uneventful return flight that included no delays and empty seats next to me on both legs of the trip home (can the airlines make the seats any smaller?), I am back and catching up on all the news I missed. Besides [...]

A couple of days back I wrote on how South Dakota’s senior Senator, Tim Johnson, voted along with 17 other Democrats to give our government almost free reign to spy on us without needing to have warrants. As expected, the Democratic Party mouthpiece blog, Badlands Blue, was eerily silent on that vote though they did [...]

I know I said posting would be light but I just had to comment on this before leaving
One Tim Johnson press release you probably won’t be reading on Badlands Blue is in regards to his vote yesterday to gut the Fourth Amendment and allow the government to invade our privacy. Johnson was one of 18 [...]

The nasty rumor that has Mike Rounds running for Senate has re-appeared. Badlands Blue speculates on just that possibility based on a Real Clear Politics story which hints that several Republican “heavyweights” could soon be getting into the Senate races in Iowa and South Dakota.
Do we have any GOP “heavyweights” left in South Dakota [...]

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 [...]

Real Clear Politics at one time believed that Tim Johnson’s Senate seat was in play because of his health problems. Unfortunately for the Republican’s, the only candidate of note they seem to be able to muster to challenge him is Joel Dykstra.
South Dakota, where Sen. Tim Johnson is still recovering from a stroke, should be [...]