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Seriously, Chris Buttars should probably adopt some sort of monastic code of silence at this point since it’s becoming increasingly obvious he’s incapable of actually speaking in public without proving himself to be a clueless dolt.
Buttars apparently has decided that the long and painful history of lynching in this nation - you know that fun [...]

IOW, it’s business as usual on the Hill.
While I’m at it, I’d like to take a moment and thank Strom Buttars for bringing his usual nasty little self out on public display for the people and making what was a boring and technocratic session into yet another nasty gay-bashing fest. FWIW, Chris [...]

Download Countdown Special Comment on FISA: President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist
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Thanks as always to Norm at OneGoodMove for providing this video.
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on today’s Countdown was a scathing rebuke of President Bush for continuing to play the fear card, trying to scare the hell out of [...]

Of late, it seems you can’t turn on the TV without hearing some conservative yammering on about “rule of law” - especially when the topic is immigration. State Rep Glen Donnelson last night on Utah Now used the phrase repeatedly while discussing immigration.
This talk is just a new variation on the conservative fondness for [...]

Over at KSL, there are many defending Buttars’ bigotry using finely honed apologetics.
I’m all for giving one the benefit of the doubt once, maybe twice. But I know Senator Buttars. He IS an unapologetic bigot and will readily admit it to anyone (privatly) as he did with me one day over the phone. [...]

Alright, I wasn’t prepared for this. President Bush pumped up the fear all week, he cried wolf again and again. He repeatedly made the claim that “the lives of countless Americans depend” on whether Congress gives him and his partners in crime an immediate get-out-of-jail-free card for breaking the FISA law to do [...]

From an email sent by Wexler’s office:

Today, in hearings on Capitol Hill, I confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her role in the lies, exaggerations, and misdirection that led us into the Iraq war.
During my questioning, Secretary Rice falsely stated [...]

Sent to Senator Dmitrich and Representatives King and Mathis
I recommend you vote FOR SB 173 and AGAINST SB202.
SB173 was produced by Governor John Huntsman’s Renewable Energy Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force. I participated with some of the members of that task force in developing the Renewable Energy Portfolio recommendation. That recommendation was modeled [...]

They can’t be serious. That’s always my first thought. In 2003 I figured President Bush couldn’t be serious about invading Iraq– after all, that would be illegal, morally wrong, and bound to have disastrous consequences. Now it may be our turn to suffer the consequences. The federal government has come back [...]

It’s almost impossible to make fun of Chris Buttars - given his level of obvious stupidity, irony, sarcasm and satire fall short of the embarrassing reality of this bigoted little man who likes the rush of power he feels when people call him “Senator.”
In Buttars latest move to become the poster boy for bigots, he [...]

Rebecca Walsh is rapidly becoming my favorite local newsperson.  Her article in today’s Trib is yet another perfect example of her ability to accurately record the seriously messed up politics of Utah.
Walsh writes:
As is so often the case, Salt Lake City is acting out, testing the bounds of this big conservative family we like to [...]

On Thursday, the Utah State House of Representatives will debate HJR 10, Rep. Aaron Tilton’s “Joint Resolution Opposing Designation of Public Lands Currently Urged by Congress and the Bureau of Land Management.” He means wilderness designation, but must be afraid to put that word into the title of any legislation, however symbolic.
Of course, this [...]