Category: Republicans
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Speaker Mike Johnson for President!
He braved the mob at Columbia U! America needed Washington, cherry tree or not. The Head Groundskeeper needs his heroes, too. Preferably living. Glued to a page in his childhood scrapbook is a photograph of his first crush, Corkie and her dog, White Shadow. Serialized on the Mouseketeers TV program in 1956. (Buddy Ebsen played…
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Normalizing lies is not patriotic
Even Germany confronted its sins. The Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire warned “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” That describes the presumptive nominee of the Republican party — an organization to which this blogger has devoted his allegiance these past 34 years. Would that the tranch of resolutions submitted to the…
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Wisconsin became a little more Republican this week
Party building from bottom up! A little potpourri today to fulfill our onerous contract obligations to our investors in North Korea. Quibblers argue that Democrats played mischief in the Republican primary Tuesday 04-02-24 by voting for candidates not named “Trump.” That’s why, they aver, their man lost 21% of the vote to ghost challengers who…
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Tuesday’s elections offer a lesson
We just don’t know what it is! What can we learn from Tuesday’s election results here in Dane County and throughout Wisconsin? We can’t say because Ol’ Sparky, our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer, is still grinding its gears. We know that voters did approve the two state constitutional amendments banning private money and personnel in the…
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Will Wisconsin embarrass Trump?
In today’s primary election? Pulled the tarp off our Eisenhower-era mainframe computer and fed its biomass digester with crusty, year-old Peeps and gaily painted hard-boiled egg shells. Ol’ Sparky coughed acrid blue smoke before spitting out today’s Wisconsin primary election predix: Donald Trump will garner less than three-fourths of the Republican vote, a huge embarrassment…
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Wisconsin adopts new voting machines
In time for Tuesday’s primary elections! It’s not quite an October Surprise but newly appointed state elections supervisor Mike Gableman this morning unveiled the next best thing. Dogged by accusations of stolen elections, the former state supreme court justice announced that Wisconsin’s optically scanned ballot system will be replaced by a “proven, tamper-proof technology, something…