Provided you have not just eaten, get a load at this video from the Center for Reproductive Rights. Baby? Baby? Are you freaking kidding me? Ok maybe that was the intent of this video. To get a rise out of pro lifers like me. But to what end? No one has ever mistaken me for a prude. But this video is so smarmy and offensive | Read More »
The saga of Palermo’s Pizza continues. When Palermo’s announced they were going to build a new production facility in the Milwaukee in 2005, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett actually made the announcement. They were to be the first major employer to locate operations in the previously blighted corridor of Wisconsin’s largest city and the move put Milwaukee, and its Mayor, in the best possible light. Yet, | Read More »
Any question of whether GAB is a partisan joke was answered by their rapid lobbying to save their own behinds People who follow Wisconsin politics should remember this truism: For the GAB, the SOP is CYA. It’s accurate, easy to tweet, and it’s family friendly. The translation – For the Government Accountability Board, the standard operating procedure is “Cover Your Ass.” As I’ve written here | Read More »
For many Americans who take only a casual interest in national affairs, last week’s rejection of an international treaty on the rights of the disabled was a real head scratcher. Wisconsin United States Senator Ron Johnson offers his take on the matter, explaining that it would have done little. In fact, Johnson argues, the treaty is a perfect example of what ails Washington. Nearly two | Read More »
Senator Scott Fitzgerald is onto something with his desire to reform the pathetically biased and secretive Wisconsin Government Accountability Board. Need proof that the GAB needs reform? Look no further than the reaction from Democrats who fear their sure thing panel of holier than thou retired judges may be on the chopping block. Former Democratic Senate Leader Mark Miller, who led the fleebag 14 to | Read More »
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is the Obama campaign point man in Wisconsin. The three-time Democratic candidate for Governor (who lost to Republican Governor Scott Walker in 2010 and again in this Summer’s failed recall election) routinely acts as a local surrogate for the President. Barrett enven flew down to the Republican National Convention in Tampa earlier this year to hold a press conference on the | Read More »
“Limiting collective bargaining freed counties, municipalities and school districts to make necessary changes to costly benefit packages such as health insurance and other programs without having to provide a quid pro quo for the changes. This, in turn, facilitated the ability of counties, municipalities and school districts to maintain employment levels while still meeting the ever-increasing service demands of their taxpayers and citizenry.” So reads | Read More »
Barack Obama, 2008: “If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.” Barack Obama, 2012: Big Bird! Big Bird! Big Bird! Today’s lesson in campaign implosions brought to you by | Read More »
While most thought about/prayed for victims, these creatures’ first instinct was to think about politics. Besides ignoring the truth about the new collective bargaining law’s impact on police and firefighters, they jump to incredible conclusions about the shooter. Pathetic. Sad. Predictable.
Potential Romney vice presidential pick, Congressman Paul Ryan, offers a concise and devastating rebuke of the Fabian Socialism advanced by the current Administration. We risk hitting tipping point in our society where we have more takers than makers in society. Where we will have turned our safety net into a hammock. That lulls able-bodied people into lives of dependency and complacency. Which drains them of | Read More »
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