Spend a day in this tiny town about 23 miles or so from where President Obama will be holding a town hall meeting on Friday, and it's easy to see why his health-care push is facing big problems in Big Sky country -- even from the people he's trying to help.
Amazing, isn't it? The very people President Obama is trying to help - the people who would benefit the most from his policies - are far more likely to oppose those very same policies.
Reminds me of Thomas Frank's book "What's the Matter with Kansas."
But, just a few paragraphs later:
"I believe that there is a health care crisis, I really do," [Sonja McDonald] told me from a dentist chair in the clinic. "Do I believe that the government needs to be more involved? No! Because I think that they just -- whenever they get their fingers in the pot it just kind of turns black."
She knows she has a problem, but prefers that the government not help solve that problem. Good for you, Mrs. McDonald.
(Lance Burri is The TrogloPundit)
