I happened to see (I think I was the first to Tweet about it) that the office of Senator Max Baucus had issued a press release dated yesterday (Wednesday, August 3, 2011) about “good-paying jobs” and a new mission for the Montana Air National Guard called “Target Production Group.”

By the way, Senator Jon Tester had his name thrown on to the press release because, after all, he is in a tight re-election bid and he needs to one-up Congressman Denny Rehberg when he can.  Rehberg will probably be Tester’s opponent in November 2012.  Tester was also allowed to put a copy of the press release on his website today. It’s all politics all the time.

When a politician uses most of the space on a press release listing what they had done in the past, which has basically nothing to do with the meat of the press release, you know they are in over their head.  One of my friends said, “Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile” when he read the press release from Baucus.

The press release from Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer (issued today) went into more detail about the mission.  You can read it HERE.  Sadly, it appears he’s given up on keeping the F-15s in Montana, too. Continue reading →