Angry Lange lashes out at Schweitzer

[El Supremo]

Source: Billings Gazette

HELENA - The House Republican majority leader, Michael Lange, unleashed a profanity-laced tirade at Gov. Brian Schweitzer Wednesday, saying the Democratic governor "can go straight to hell."

Lange, of Billings, exploded during a meeting of House Republicans Wednesday morning and repeatedly attacked Schweitzer, who was not present.

The GOP leader called Schweitzer an "SOB on the second floor that thinks he's going to run this state like a dictator."

Read more: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/26/news/state/20-lange_v.txt

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Watch the video of this total imbecile!

[aquart]

1. Montana must be so proud.

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. .

Asked if he intended to apologize to Schweitzer, Lange told reporters later, "I respect the office of the governor. I'm not apologizing to him. As far as my frustration level with him and his tactics, I make no apologies to him."

Well, let's remember that in a few months when you REALLY want something, and Schweitzer tells YOU to go to hell (actually, he's probably a little classier than you). How do you think that will feel, you pompous pusbag?

Of all the politicians I like, Schweitzer is my favorite. Every time I hear him speak, I like him more.

[Tiberius]

3. Saw him on Bill Maher

That's the first I saw of Schweitzer and I like him a lot.

[tandot]

4. Election have consequences. I guess these stupid morons can't get that into

their head.

For years, Republicans behaved like dictators, screwing this country and giving a sh*t about their constituents. Now they are little cry babies because they can't do it anymore. Give me a f*cking break.

[fasttense]

5. Sounds like a republic having a hissy fit because he didn't get his way.

He was offered a compromise and he's pissed because he didn't get exactly what his corporate funders wanted. God forbid they actually fund schools and give rebates to homeowners.

I expect to see a lot of hissy fits from republics now that they don't control all of the government. They don't know how to compromise.

[Bicoastal]

6. Being "outspoken" like this is a false political virture as far as I'm concerned.

I know this makes me dinosaur in the era of Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter, but I hate it when people applaud blustery fools for "telling it like it is." A lot of the time, they mistake being loud and obnoxious for being right.

People don't know how to communicate anymore. I find I'm actually less inclined to side with a loud-mouthed shouter I agree with than an articulate and sensible speaker I don't, so its fortunate that the GOP doesn't seem to have many of the latter on their side these days.

But it's also the reason why I'm not so unhappy to see Rosie leaving the view. At least, with all of FOX's hired goons focused on bashing her into the dirt, Keith Olbermann is quietly, eloquently getting the jump on them. Go KO!

[grasswire]

7. the comments section is pretty amusing

Montana appears to be moving to the left.

[Tempest]

9. Very much to the left

Both the governor's office and the legislature when Democratic in the last election.

A friend of mine who's deep in Montana politics say even the ranchers, traditionally Repugs, are voting Democrat now because of Bush's policies on drilling and taking grazing lands from them.

[Wetzelbill]

11. Many Montanans are naturally conservative

people raised in rural areas, hunt, fish and go to church. They aren't typical RW hatemongers, just basically good people who watch the nightly news, pick up the morning paper and generally care for their country. They don't live to read the NY Times or watch Hardball or anything like that They don't necessarily care about those things. They'd rather talk about the weather, drink coffee and shoot the shit. So it's no surprise that these type of voters are starting to vote Dem nowadays. They see RWers taking out country to hell and making asses out of themselves day in and day out and it turns them off. They probably aren't any more to the Left then they ever were, they just don't like how ugly the Right has gotten.

[ReadTomPaine]

8. Projection, thy name is Republican.

"SOB on the second floor that thinks he's going to run this state like a dictator."

[calimary]

10. Oh, this is adorable! A republi-CON foaming at the mouthover a

chief executive who "thinks he's going to run this state like a dictator."

I wonder if this lange lout has ever heard of a guy named george w. bush?

[Wetzelbill]

12. Wow this is my vote for dumbest comment

All I can say is I hope she's not from my reservation. We already have enough trouble without morons like this, I mean she actually makes tribal leadership look smart. -WB


Native girl wrote on April 26, 2007 9:17 AM
Good for Lange, he's not the only one to lose his cool. Democrats have as much bad lingo floating around in their heads too. I'm NA and I have as much support for them as I do for the Al Quada. They are set to ruin our country, look at the Democratic controlled congress who want to micromanage the war, who won't approve more money for our troops. Thats how we lost the war in Vietnam, it was under the direction of a Democratic President who controlled it from the White House. As for kids hearing this tirade, they speak worse than adults.

[yardwork]

15. That sounds like a plant to me - somebody hired to pretend to be Native American

in support of Republicans. I doubt it's for real.

[donco6]

13. "I meant no offense" . . . WTF?

How can anyone believe that? Of course he meant the offense. It was about as offensive as you can get. What an idiot.

[Judi Lynn]

14. "Imbecile" sounds right! He bellowed his way through his storehouse of vulgarities,

then took the time to invoke "dignity," "honor," "integrity," etc.

It's always a high point when a right-wingnut Congressman shouts he wants the Governor to "shove it up his ass." True quality. I am reminded of the Forefathers!

If this beanbag spends more of his time working on his sideshow routine, he might have less time for his own brand of legislating, as in this quick example from google:

Big Disappointment: HB405 & Rep. Michael Lange

Big Disappointment of the week goes to Rep. Michael Lange (R-Billings, House Majority Leader), for sponsoring what may be the worst anti-environmental bill of the Session.

HB 405 outrageously defines all power generation facilities as "clean," including outdated crush and burn technologies used in some coal, oil and gas development, and then exploits the newly created loophole to cut Montanans out of established public participation processes.

HB 405 also exempts new power generation and their transmission lines from cornerstone environmental laws like the Montana Environmental Procedure Act (MEPA), excluding citizens from the public hearing process, and the Major Facilities Siting Act (MFSA). Additionally, HB 405 would actually prevent citizens from suing in a state court to protect themselves from violations of environmental laws.
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http://www.mtvoters.org/legislativealert/article/2007/big_disappointment