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Our Founder
and irascible head groundskeeper at the Policy Werkes is David Blaska, former has-been, 33-year card-carrying RINO, recovering know-it-all journalist. Holds the record for banishment on the NextDoor social media app. Aging gracelessly at Stately Blaska Manor on the SW side of Madison WI, the Emerald City.
My pronouns are “Sir” and “Your Lordship” but you dasn’t call me Late For Dinner.
→ “Why I’ll never vote for Trump again.” In Sunday’s 05-21-23 WI State Journal.
→ “Blaska & Me” by Dave Cieslewicz.
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Why Mark Pocan, D-Madison, voted against the debt limit deal
“Forget the debt ceiling. The Biden-McCarthy compromise is a big deal because it is a spending compromise. An important provision of the deal is that if, by the end of the year, the House and Senate haven’t passed 12 appropriations bills (the long-forgotten way budgeting is supposed to work), all discretionary spending would become subject to an automatic 1% cut. This is what is known as a “sequester.” A sequester is to Democrats what garlic is to vampires. …
“The truth today is this: The modern Democratic Party — the party of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the House Squad — won’t cut or slow spending for any existing federal program, ever. Now, Mr. McCarthy’s negotiators have managed to create a wedge against the left’s massive opposition to spending reforms.”
— Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal.
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11 killed, 46 wounded Memorial Day in Chicago
Deadliest Memorial Day weekend there in eight years.
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It is to laugh
“Clarence Thomas, resign or be impeached”
Like Kevin McCarthy’s House of Reps is going to impeach Justice Thomas! (!!!) 😛
— Where else but in The Nation.
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Question of the Day
What ‘Deep State’?
Rachael Rollins, the US attorney for Massachusetts, leaked sensitive Justice Department information to a journalist in an effort to influence a local election, lied to investigators and improperly attended a fundraiser with Jill Biden, according to two critical federal reports released Wednesday. (More here.)
How can anyone take them seriously?
Charles C.W. Cooke asks at National Review.
“Rachel Maddow made a career out of spreading lunatic conspiracy theories on MSNBC, as did Chris Hayes and Nicolle Wallace (who is still, today, rejecting all evidence that contradicts her fever dream). Adam Schiff lied relentlessly from his official perch on the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is now gearing up to run for the Senate.”
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My Tweets
If a connection between Rudy and ROJO comes out it’s bye bye Ronnie
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For some time now, American politics has been similar to Cher’s marriage to Gregg Allman. As she herself described their brief union: “It was like doing Disneyland on acid.”
RIP, Gregg.
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I have a feeling thar rojo’s staff is gathering at a local pub to discuss their next career moves. I still believe that there are still real conservatives out there. They need to stand up and take their party back.
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Higgs Boson?
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Evidence? Who needs evidence? Everyone knows the election was stolen and Trump actually won in a landslide. This Rusty Bower guy must be a lying commie. The chair of the WI Assembly’s election committee Janel Brandtjen has much better information (and she’s not a commie).
Here in Wisconsin, we have a very capable, but mild-mannered and impartial investigator turning up important new evidence every day. And the bill so far is less than a million bucks!
Run, Trump, run.
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Didn’t you hear? Overthrowing U.S. systems of governance and threatening insurrection against federal courts is now a-ok.
Prepare for another Summer of Love to Hate.
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“Prepare for another Summer of Love to Hate.”
C’mon AC, is it beyond the realm of possibility that they might take a little time off for fiery but mostly peaceful attempts to pack the court…?
Anywho, despicable Lefty p!$$ants are like two-year-olds with poopy pants when they don’t get their way.
Their way tilts in the direction of 3rd World $#!tholes where justices are compelled to adjudicate legal proceedings while wearing hoods…necessary to prevent them from being identified which would put themselves and their families in harm’s way.
Lefty Mantra: Your Speech Is Hatred…Our Hatred Is Speech!
The Gotch
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