Discussion: Senate Majority C<span style="font-size: 42px; line-height: 1em;">ould Rest On The Sage Grouse

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Nope. The Senate majority is gonna be won/lost in the South…LA,AR,NC,KY and GA.

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“[B]est known for its unusual springtime mating dance, during which it puffs its bulbous chest and emits odd warbles.”

Like many Beltway Republicans.

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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money. ~ 19th century Cree Indian

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“They don’t want bureaucrats thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., dictating what should happen.”

But they’ll take their money, you betcha.

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“They don’t want bureaucrats thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., dictating what should happen.”

If I may…

“They don’t want bureaucrats thousands of miles away in Washington,
D.C., dictating that they can’t rape and plunder the land.”

There, fixed it for ya.

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I think an AP reporter in Colorado was looking for a novel angle to impress the national desk.

A handful of public-land welfare kings worried about the sage grouse ain’t gonna to determine whether Udall wins or loses in Colorado.

And if Walsh even has a remote chance in Montana in November, then Dems already will be so far ahead in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Iowa, Georgia and Alaska that the GOP won’t have a snowball’s chance of getting control of the Senate.

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Well, I suppose it’s better than control of the Senate resting on a thoughtless grouse with poor judgment.

So, just how wise is this ground fowl, anyway?

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This is goofy writing:

“DENVER (AP) — An obscure, chicken-sized bird best known for its mating dance could help determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the U.S. Senate in November.”

There is nothing obscure about the Sage Grouse. Out here in the west and among bird watcher it is well known. the AP writer must live under a rock somewhere… or in an extremely urban environment where her/she never goes outside. at any rate this comment is comical in its shallowness.

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It’s wise enough to survive without human help or interference for thousands if not millions of years.

And Beltway pundits.

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The grouse needs help from this guy.

PS. I spent 30 years working on multiple endangered species issues, with the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service, so I think I’m allowed a little humor.

I think you missed the joke.

I was making a pun on “sage.”

I apologize. I was still reacting, I guess to the AP writer of the article who is clueless about wildlife.

No, Montanans don’t want scientists attempting to influence their otherwise unencumbered lives.

“debates about local vs. federal control and whether to develop or conserve the region’s vast expanses of land.”

Where ‘develop’ = enrich a coterie, with the usual tide of externalities, to be handled, if at all, by the Feds.

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