Tag: Tommy Thompson
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Is it great to be a Republican?
Tommy Thompson thinks so! Buzz went through the room at Republican pints & politics, held at the Dorf Haus in rural Roxbury WI Wednesday night 01-7-26, ably emceed by WiscoRolf. Tommy Thompson was in the house! No one works a room like Tommy. The living legend hugs and chortles his way from diner to diner —…
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Blaska’s book report
Words are worth fighting over! Blaska did like old people are supposed to do and joined a book club. Composed of some very accomplished people, they let me in anyway. We count former mayors, state legislators, a county executive, a college dean and president, and state agency secretaries. We got a book author, various attorneys,…
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Have a heart for Luke Fickell
Ever have to face the music in public? Probably ought not to expend our thimbleful of empathy for a football coach. We switch channels when encountering those appeals to rescue shivering dogs. Still, we feel the discomfort of taking the hot seat at the post-game press conference after being humbled 44 to 25 by a…
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We RINOs have a fall back position!
It’s called the U.S. Senate! It’s good to have a fall back position. A political parachute, if you will. Not naming any names but for members of that lost tribe of Republicans sitting out this year’s presidential contest, hope rests entirely on electing a Republican Senate. Anything to keep Laurence Tribe off the Supreme Court…
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Democrats deploy secret weapon
… they’re trying a little kindness! The bastids! As oratory, it won’t make the cut in any compendium of speeches alongside Churchill, Lincoln, or Demosthenes. (Who was his Ted Sorenson?) But the groundlings gathered around Blaska Manor’s b&w Philco did enjoy watching ol’ Bubba burble forth on the big stage Wednesday 08-21-24 at the Democrats’…