Voters, we just ain't paying attention!

 

 

Remember the bad ol' days of Montana's U.S. House of Representative, Denny Rehberg?

 

Well, like most of our politicians from the past, we seem to always find one more useless than their predecessor.  Such was the case beginning with Rehberg.  We grumbled about his Republican rubber stamp method of voting and his lack of ideas as far as submitting bills.  He was a hide-in-the-weeds and hope-no-one-will-see-me-being-a-bump-on-a-log kind of guy.

 

Then came Steve Daines.  Total disaster.  He voted - among other dumb GOP brain freezes - to shut down the government if "Obamacare" wasn't repealed.  Following that, a really bad decision by the voters put him in the U.S. Senate.  Fool us once, shame on you, Mr. Daines.  Fool us twice, shame on us!

 

Now we have another GOP stooge who followed Daines into the U.S. House.  Ryan Zenke got there, in part, with the hysterical efforts of the Montana Media when they discovered (probably through leaks from the GOP muckrakers) that his incumbent opponent, Mr. Walsh, had not given proper credit to someone he cited in his thesis many years ago. (Never mind that the school didn't catch, but many years later the GOP did.)  That nearly caused the media to wet their pants in route to handing Zenke the victory.  (Note to future candidates:  Don't ever let the media tag you as a plagiarizer.)

 

So, we now have two Montana rubber stamps - one in the U.S. House and one in the U.S. Senate.

 

And that makes two "shame on us" mistakes as voters.

 

Let's try to rectify that when they come up for re-election.