Stupidly: On July 22, at 7:11 p.m. (Montana time), right after President Barack Obama said the Cambridge Police acted “stupidly,” I twittered that his statement would probably come back to bite him. It has. His comments killed everything he had said about the healthcare bill and has been the major news story for the week. Obama’s approval ratings are also slipping.

Birth Certificate: At least once a week, someone sends me an e-mail regarding Obama not being born in the United States. Give it a rest folks. He was born in Hawaii (after it was a state). There was a birth announcement in a Honolulu paper 47 years ago, too. That horse is dead, so stop beating it.

Healthcare: Probably the best thing that has happened is there probably won’t be a healthcare bill before the August recess (vacation). They may change their tune on what the bill will cover after hearing from the voters.

Poor Max: He was called to the President’s office this week, along with his boss, Harry Reid, for some counseling about the healthcare bill he has failed to produce. Besides getting more negative publicity than ever before in the national news and on the blogs, Max is also getting protestors at his offices in Montana.

Not to be discouraged, Max’s staff sent an e-mail from the senior senator inviting me to a “Make Health Happen Summit” next month in Bozeman. If I were going to protest, this would have to be a place to show up.

BTW, Max has not been on the Sunday talk shows yet to discuss his plan.

Palin: Today Sarah Palin steps down as Governor of Alaska. It is a political risk. She may be a rising star, and who knows what she plans to do, except make some nice coin from a book deal and speaking engagements. With all the scrutiny given to politicians these days, writing books and talking about issues may just be the safest and most lucrative way to go these days. If Palin plans on running for another public office, she needs to surround herself with someone who will tell her like it is and not care if it hurts her ego.

In some respects Palin reminds me of former Vice President Dan Quayle, who took a beating in the press long before there were blogs and many 24-hour news networks. He never recovered to mount a significant political campaign. We’ll see if Palin does.

Really? REALLY?: Last Sunday’s editorial in the Great Falls Tribune called, “Local and regional input needed on border policies” had this interesting sentence, “But all of that changed because of 9/11, including the fact that some of the terrorists had entered the United States via Canada.”

Many officials have made this mistake, most recently Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. With Montana, and especially Great Falls, being so close to Canada, you would have thought an apology would have come out quickly. I’ve seen nothing yet.

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