I laughed about Mary Ann Aker’s blog post at the Post. I mean, it was so insanely partisan and pointless that I’m not sure it wasn’t ghost-written by Montana Democrats. It’s hard to take such a clumsy piece seriously.
But past the ‘hit piece’ nature is an amusing human story. You can just see the poor campaign treasurer scrounging over receipts in a darkly lit office with a single lamp by which to work. He picks up his cup of warm coffee and grabs the next receipt. $300 for “Tune Inn” - no notations. Naturally he assumes that Tune Inn is an Inn where you sleep. Poor guy has probably never been to DC and wouldn’t really know that Tune Inn was a bar. Now his oversight is national news. Whoops.
As bars go though, this is the sort of Bar Montana’s Congressman should go to. Just look at this description.
There are eight mounted deer heads on the walls of the tiny Tune Inn — and, more important, two mounted deer butts. The butts are a lot more emblematic of this raucous neighborhood joint. The most popular thing on the menu is the pitcher of beer, just $5.50 (as long as you order Busch, not any of that yuppie stuff). During the day, the place specializes in workingman breakfasts and quick lunches. At night, if you feel like eating, the straightforward and cheap cheeseburger is the house specialty. Push through the loud throngs that mob the front of the place on weekend evenings and you may find a relatively peaceful booth in the back. An historical note: This is where James Carville and Mary Matalin went on their first date. They left quickly.
Sounds a bit like Stockmans in Missoula. They probably have peanuts. It’s things like this that make me wonder why Montana Democrats are trying to suggest that Rehberg is out of touch with Montana. He’s still Montana through and through - which is why the east-coast liberals like to make fun of him so much.
And where’s the contrast with Max Baucus? And a tab of $300 is a drop in the bucket compared with the $37,000 Max Baucus spent in three months on pretentious high-brow east coast restaurants. Think there’s not a difference?
Cheers to Rehberg for keeping it real.
Cheers to Jay for getting the humor.
Jeers to Lamnidae for being lamely partisan.
Jeers to the Washington Post for paying a Democrat Party Hack’s salary.
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People always look at partisans of their own stripe through rose-colored glasses. Denny’s a trust baby, a man who inherited great wealth (and is pissed because he had to pay estate tax, costing him some of that wealth he was entitled to), who has never had his hands on the business end of a shovel, who has never held a private sector job. But he’s a skilled politician - this after a rocky start. He knows that to succeed, he’s got to be a regular guy who eats cheeseburgers and drinks cheap beer. So this whole controversy serves him well - he could not plan it better.
My guess is that while he sleeps on his couch at night he throws back Chevez Regal and eats caviar.
Again, Mark - is your guess that he’s drinking Regal and eating caviar supported by anything other than your partisanship? Since wishing the world was a certain way don’t necessarily make it so, evidence is always helpful. That’s why I provided some links and quotes above. You’re encouraged to do the same.
Good grief, a man can’t even enjoy a rhetorical flourish around you. I do think I did hit upon it down below when I discerned that you are a pain in the ass. But I don’t know what the man drinks anymore than you. I only know that he drinks. You do go off - how about holding a private sector job, working a shovel, inheriting great wealth, working his tail off the eliminate the estate tax, all while appealing to the common man - may I not take the evidence in front of me and presume to know anything? The great accomplishment of Republicans, when they succeed, is to enlist the working class in support of patricians. I give Denny his due - he’s succeeded. You’re evidence of that. He’s obviously not going to tell us what he really is or thinks. This we know - he is privileged, has been all his life.
PS - if you do your homework, you’ll find I am not partisan. Democrats don’t warm up to me becuase I am more often critical of them than you. I am not a Baucus man.
Good Grief, a cheeseburger for $7 and a beer for $3.50? Is it possible that Denny’s gone big time on us?
Course, Baucus’ caviar, truffles and champagne in his quaint suburban McLean house would never receive such scrutiny.
That’s cause Democrats love impoverished people. And work so hard to keep them that way.
Look for Jenny McKee and Mary Clare to write an in-depth feature story about the Tune Inn. Of course, it was nothing more than an oversight on whoever completed the paperwork, but that won’t stop these two liberal reporters from doing their “work”…and some way they’ll fit Abramoff in the story.
You’re kind of missing the point here - the story works for Denny and he will bleed it dry. It takes Mr. Caviar and puts him in fish and chips land.
Its nice to know Mark looks at the contestents financial statement before he votes. The poorer the better, right Mark? The homeless are sure to get your vote. Let me see, even Ralph Nader has a net worth of over 3M, Edwards=wealth, Max=wealth, we know you’ve supported these guys in the past.
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