According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the research dollars given to Montana State University (MSU) dropped “6 percent” this year and this “was the university’s largest setback in two decades.”

Wow. Two decades.

In 2006, MSU ranked in the top 20 universities nationwide for receiving federal money.

In 2007 the Democrats took over the majority in Congress. It’s been downhill since then and probably a lot of it has to do with the loss of a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee who happened to be from Montana.

Meanwhile, the research money continues to flow…but now it’s starting to go to other states.