There’s an ode to the Buffalo (or American Bison if you will) in today’s Rapid City Journal:
How do we officially recognize an insect (honey bee), a dessert (kuchen), a fossil (triceratops) and a soil (houdek) but not throw some legislative love to the bison? South Dakota is routinely rated as the No. 1 bison state in the nation with more than 30,000 head roaming our vast ranges. The animal’s popularity was evident again on Friday when more than 20,000 people from across the nation and state traveled to Custer State Park to witness the 50th annual buffalo roundup, one of our Wild West traditions.
It caught my attention, as during yesterday’s 100 Eyes – the Argus Leader’s political vodcast – newer Argus political reporter Dana Ferguson brought up a humorous point after attending the Democrat’s declared “first annual Buffalo Round-up dinner.” This dinner was held in Rapid City (not in any proximity to the Buffalo Round-Up in Custer State Park).
Ferguson note that the dinner didn’t actually serve Buffalo as any part of the meal. Nope.
So, not near the round-up. Not serving buffalo. But, to their credit, they did project a picture of one on the screen. Because pretending makes it “all buffalo-y.”
At the same dinner, they talked about running people in the next election against John Thune. They might have talked about it, but didn’t actually have anyone. Just like the buffalo round-up theme, they pretended they could. So, in their minds pretending their dinner had something to do with buffalos was just like pretending that they can come up with a viable candidate against Thune.
It was just a matter of imagination. Of pretending.
And now we can watch them continue pretending that Democrats are still are a viable political organization in South Dakota.
feel sorry for the hosts and viewers of 100 eyes having to endure one out of state dude that keeps asking questions no one understands or cares about. that dude has no life.
other than that the first annual buffalo round-up dinner was a nice group therapy session for the state democrats
Wow. It appears as an overt effort to trade off the State’s Annual Buffalo Roundup, comparable to a hamburger joint calling their burger “The Bopper” instead of Whopper.
Feeds the impression they don’t have anything going that stands on its own.
So let me get this right. Thune and Rounds (Noem too) keep trying to repeal Obamacare, while Daugaard goes off to Washington to negotiate a deal with the Feds to extend Obamacare to 48,000 South Dakotans. Now let us keep in mind that all of these aforementioned political leaders are Republicans and self-possessed conservatives… Who are we to believe here?…. What’s the real brand name here?…. Better yet, as they say at Hamburger University (to paraphrase them) “It’s important to maintain quality assurance.”….Isn’t it?
I was stunned to see that Daugaard is now planning to expand Medicare. So the feds are going to pay the bill? Until they aren’t, and then we are stuck with it. Then what happens?
Every plan to erase the Affordable Care Act is backed by a detailed plan for replacing it, despite every Democrat’s effort to pretend that Republicans have no plan. Regarding Daugaard, his position early on in the stimulus-days was to make sure the state got its share of federal funds being distributed. Any plan by him to latch onto the short-term federal Medicaid money should be looked at very closely. There’s always one heck of a big string attached.