Tag: Derrick Van Orden
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Spotting phonies
Just say no to chameleon candidates! Are you nervous around black people? (Do you poop out at parties? Well, DO YOU?! — Lucy Ricardo) Not in the sense of fearing your purse gets swiped (like that hilarious routine about the elevator). No, my Wonder Breads, you worry your black acquaintance won’t accept you for who…
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Who will milk our cows?
Grandpa and his milk stool are out to pasture. Does anyone outside the MAGA cult believe that all illegal immigrants are — in the President’s own words — “killers, rapists, and drug dealers”? We stipulate: if you did not immigrate to the U.S. through proper channels, then you are (perforce) illegal. To the extent that…
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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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Now even Derrick Van Orden is a RINO!
Takes aim at the nut-case Freedom Caucus! First of all, happy Easter! We’ll post the Lovely Lisa’s traditional Easter brunch in a subsequent post. Know you can’t wait! But we’re overjoyed over the news this morning that U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, Republican from Wisconsin’s La Crosse/Eau Claire Third District, is going after the dysfunctional…
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Draw your own damn legislative districts!
Hey kids! Want to have rainy day fun? All you solid citizens posting yard signs that read “This Time, Fair Maps” — now is your chance! Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is inviting us groundlings to submit our own congressional and state legislative districts to the map drawers! The Speaker’s website Draw Your District WI offers three on-line…
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Stay thirsty, my Republican friends
The most interesting man in WI politics Republicans just picked up another congressional seat in Wisconsin on their way to taking the gavel away from Nancy Pelosi next year. (The GOP need only flip 5 out of 435.) That would make six of Wisconsin’s eight House seats in the Republican column. Incumbent Democrat Ron Kind…