Category: Republicans
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A little help here?
It’s us taxpayers who are marginalized. A question for our platinum subscribers: which alder, school board member, county supervisor, or state legislator here in greater Madison WI campaigned for and serves as a friend of the taxpayer? We can’t think of a single one, either. Most of our elected officials vow to represent “marginalized communities,”…
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We’re keeping chairman Schimming
His detractors discredit the party. Fair warning: Blaska is going to convention this weekend and he’s loaded for bear. Blaska’s mission is to prevent a self-inflicted blood letting in full view of a hostile news media. What should be a moon-shot send-off for Tom Tiffany for governor and Eric Toney for attorney general may disintegrate…
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Blaska would like his party back
Revenge of the RINOs! This week the President of the United States vowed to extinguish “a whole civilization” — language used by no wartime President — not even Richard Nixon jabbering to the portraits hanging in the White House, scotch in hand, during Watergate. Peggy Noonan calls Trump’s tweet, “the language of sociopathy.” This RINO…
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Have our politics become deadly?
or just an excuse for hate? The former downtown Madison hotel employee accused of killing her co-worker in a parking ramp on W. Washington Ave. Sunday 03-22-26 blamed that co-worker for getting her fired. That, if one may speculate on a live criminal case (and what is to stop us!) appears to be the primary…
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Who’s watching?
Trump’s State of the Union address tonight? This gracelessly aging bloggeur lights a small votive (and fruit fly repellant) candle to give thanks that we have not been elected to the speaker of any house, be it the WI State Assembly or the U.S. House of Representatives (or the Stately Manor when the Lovely Lisa is…
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Our politics is more stupid than …
“An eye for an eye makes both people blind.” — Sen. John Neely Kennedy, R-Louisiana. The indentured servants run to the flickering b&w Philco like it is spitting casino coins whenever is heard the honeyed tones of Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. (We watch more C-Span these days because we like our Metamucil straight from the…