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I’m afraid we will be seeing a major disconnect between ND values and our representation in DC, at least out of Conrad. 

This has been going on for a long long time already.

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

This has been going on for a long long time already.

Well aware - should have said the major disconnect will get dramatically worse than we are used to seeing

if ND voted Red, carried by McCain handily, how is Conrad going to be a major ally of Obama’s without putting the wants of ND citizens on the back burner?

That is a good question and it should come up at the next GOP convention and should be story in the media. Thats right the media in ND is a lap dog for Conrad. Still a good question though.

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Let me get this straight: Conrad got reelected by 69 percent of North Dakotan voters (2006) and he’s never represented North Dakotan values? So this either means 69 percent of voters are out of touch with themselves or the “real” North Dakotans aren’t voting.

Or it’s the liberal news media’s fault because it always is.

This reads like an Onion article.

I think Kent Conrad gets away with saying one thing while doing the complete opposite.

Take for instance his insistence that he’s a “budget hawk.”  (His words).

His rhetoric doesn’t match his actions.  I don’t know of any cost savings that he’s done in Washington.  And we know that when he’s been budget chairman the deficit has skyrocketed.

Conrad’s “budget hawk” would more accurately be described as being an old fashioned tax and spend liberal who can only find money to save by slashing the military.

That my friend is not following North Dakota values.

Why that works for him politically I don’t know.  For one thing the press is very friendly towards him. 

Regarding the state’s newspapers, could they be any more of a bunch of sycophants than they are?  Conrad gets in a major scandal using his position to PERSONALLY save himself over $10,000 which resulted in favorable treatment that he did as the budget committee chair. 

He told at least 3 different stories that the Forum properties went to great lengths to reconcile for him.  MSNBC reports that a Countrywide insider disputes Conrad’s claim and they sat on the story as long as they could.

Really I think you guys should drop your impartiality act because it’s not working.

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

Or it’s the liberal news media’s fault because it always is.

Well, Tu, how can you say there’s not pro-Conrad bias in this state when the man is hip-deep in a scandal that’s being investigated by the feds - an investigation that features a witness who is on the record directly contradicting Conrad’s own account of the situation - and there’s been exactly one news article written about it since the emergence of the witness?

Be as dismissive as you want to be, but this is a problem.

Let me get this straight: Conrad got reelected by 69 percent of North Dakotan voters (2006) and he’s never represented North Dakotan values? So this either means 69 percent of voters are out of touch with themselves or the “real” North Dakotans aren’t voting.

Perhaps if news stories about Conrad amounted to more than just a re-hash of his press releases the voting would go differently.

Democracies rely on an informed public.  The public isn’t being informed.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

To add to Whistler’s point, the state media didn’t even report on the new developments in the Conrad/Countrywide story until Scott Hennen and I basically bullied them into it.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Whistler said: I think Kent Conrad gets away with saying one thing while doing the complete opposite.

Take for instance his insistence that he’s a “budget hawk.” (His words).

His rhetoric doesn’t match his actions.  I don’t know of any cost savings that he’s done in Washington.  And we know that when he’s been budget chairman the deficit has skyrocketed.

Yep and the lap dog media (grand forks herald, fargo forum) doesn’t hold him to account either.

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Rob is a bully.

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

Yep and the lap dog media (grand forks herald, fargo forum) doesn’t hold him to account either.

They don’t seem to be helping their business at all by reporting only the news that the three stooges want reported either.

The Herald’s circulation numbers are plummeting.

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

Let me get this straight: Conrad got reelected by 69 percent of North Dakotan voters (2006) and he’s never represented North Dakotan values? So this either means 69 percent of voters are out of touch with themselves or the “real” North Dakotans aren’t voting.

The point of the article is whether or not Conrad will represent ND values once the Obama administration begins. Hardly reads like an onion article.

Totally agree with you that 69% of voters have voted for him, but in regard to this article, the key question is how his performance will be when the new administration begins, not what he has done in the past.

I know North Dakotan’s like him.  I’m not arguing that at all. The question is what will people think in 2010 when he is up for re-election and presumably will have been helping push an administration that North Dakotan’s didn’t vote for.

excuse me I mean 2012.

I think that Conrad gets voted in despite not representing ND values because A) He’s great at bringing home pork to please the state’s big political players and B) the average citizen doesn’t get the full story about what Conrad does in DC.

This past year no fewer than two members of Congress got caught not actually living in their states/districts.  The media was all over them.  But have you ever seen a ND media story about Conrad’s sham apartment in Bismarck?

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

They don’t seem to be helping their business at all by reporting only the news that the three stooges want reported either.

The Herald’s circulation numbers are plummeting.

Yeah it is a crappy vehicle.

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It’s too bad, it could be a nice paper.

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

Opps I meant crappy vehicle for information/news.

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Goon’s North Dakota Red Neck
Goon’s World