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So…about Ronald Reagan and the national debt
Referencing the fact that the federal debt didn’t decrease under both Presidents Bush, here’s what far-right conservative blogger Randy Hollenbeck said: P.S. -You on the left, I know you don’t and...
View ArticleTax Breaks create jobs…horse hockey
We have continually been harangued that we need to continue to cut taxes for the wealthy and for corporations so that they have the extra wherewithal to create more jobs. We’ve just had the tenth...
View ArticleSocial Security Works…
I have a couple of longer posts in the works on Social Security and Republicans and Taxes…but they aren’t ready for tonight! But I thought I’d leave us all with this quick little tidbit: by now...
View ArticleWe don’t need no stinkin’ EPA…
Despite never actually providing a plan to create jobs, several of the leading Republican candidates for President point to federal regulations as a reason we aren’t growing jobs in the United States....
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Another Shotgun Blast to a Zombie Lie
Time to try again to kill the lie that government housing policy caused the subprime crisis. Maybe this time it’ll knock the zombie down for good. Probably not. In an working paper entitled The...
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Mike Huckabee Supports a Vengeful god
This absolute nonsense is beyond the pale. From Friday, December 14th, 2012 (YES THAT VERY FRIDAY) TPMLivewire: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee attributed the mass shooting at Sandy Hook...
View ArticleOne Quick Question about Innovation Park and the Eschweiler Buildings?
I am an architecture nut and love the work of Alexander Eschweiler. And it’s a sin that the county allowed the buildings on the county grounds to deteriorate to the point that it is economically...
View ArticleThe States Must Unite
The November jobs report shows that the country exceeded expectations by creating 203,000 jobs. The stock market continues to set record highs and private industry is sitting on $1.6 trillion dollars....
View ArticleFAQs About WI Voter ID and November 4th
I already give the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel enough linkage here that they should be giving me a free subscription about now…but never mind about that…now I am adding one that goes to their page with...
View ArticleBlue Collar Jobs Lost To Legal Immigrants?
A number of GOP presidential hopefuls including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker want to halt or decrease LEGAL immigration because it is taking solid blue collar jobs away from Americans! No really…how...
View ArticleWhich Republican(s) wanted to gut WI’s open records laws? The list starts...
Last week I wrote a post wondering which Republican lawmaker(s) wanted the sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws, changes that would essentially gut those laws, and it looks like we know...
View ArticleDo Wisconsin Republicans want to use state budget to take away weekends for...
Back when he was a candidate for governor in 2010, Scott Walker promised to “strip policy and pork projects from the state budget,” but not long after he was elected governor Walker broke that promise...
View ArticleWisconsin’s awful, no good, very very bad biennial state budget
This Facebook post by Emily Mills sums up how I feel about the absolutely awful biennial state budget Republicans are working to pass. Far as I can tell, the entire proposed Wisconsin budget is a...
View Article999: The True Number of the Beast
I haven’t had time to review all of this…and some of it was changed by the Senate…but most of this is hateful or spiteful…and none of it is budgetary. A number of posts here and around the blogosphere...
View Article“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana
The South Carolina legislature is currently discussing the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from their Capitol grounds. To me, the fact that it is even a question over 150 years after the Civil...
View ArticleScott Walker poised to sign largest budget in Wisconsin state history
This is for all those Scott Walker supporters out there who’ve deluded themselves into believing Gov. Walker is a fiscal conservative. Yesterday rubber-stamp Republicans in the State Assembly sent the...
View ArticleWhere Will He Sign The Budget?
Here’s a question for all of our erudite readers out there: What high profile private invitation only location will Governor Walker pick to sign the budget?
View ArticleDrinking and legislating might not mix…
After a bomb threat forced the evacuation of the state Capitol yesterday, lawmakers from both parties decided to have an impromptu “beer summit” at The Coopers Tavern, a bar across the street from the...
View ArticleNext Assault On Clean Government: Disable The Government Accountability Board
Having learned nothing about Wisconsin’s concern with clean and open government from their open records debacle this past week, the Republicans in Madison decide to renew their efforts to disable the...
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