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America can feel good about itself again
and quit the party of angry! Here is why Republicans will win the mid-terms, even here in increasingly blue Wisconsin. We’re optimists, they’re not. Democrats scold you for not checking your guilty white privilege at the door of this stolen land. Maybe progressives don’t live in a world where everyone is a victim of your…
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They must be crazy
Democrats can’t stand up for America. President Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night got off to an auspicious start when, just a few minutes in, sergeants at arms (they were not masked) hustled the noisome Rep. Al Green (D-TX) and his gilded cane out of the chambers. Did not attend a GOP watch party…
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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…
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Robin Vos never subscribed to the Big Lie
The Speaker believed responsible conservatism wins elections. Not many Assembly speakers have cut so wide a swath as Robin Vos or engendered so much bilious spite — from members of his own Republican party. A record 14 years leading the majority party is itself historic, especially considering that my Republicans are less disciplined than feral…



