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Tag: Mark Pocan

  • Nothing is too big or small for progressives

    to put under government control. “Everybody in America knows our current health care system is broke, it is dysfunctional, it is cruel … by far the most expensive health care system in the world.”  Bernie Sanders said that. Them’s his own words, delivered on the floor of the Senate Monday 11-10-25. Fifteen years after a…

  • Palestinian advocates hurt their cause

    Gaza not starving enough to release hostages. — Babylon Bee Has advocacy for any cause created more ill will than the push for Palestinian statehood? The movement is on some kind of public relations suicide mission. Their martinets keep demonstrating why Palestine should NOT have a state. Latest case in point, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.…

  • ‘No reply’ is shorthand for ‘I don’t need your vote’

    Answer the damn questionnaire! We’re hoping Brandon Maly and his ticket get re-elected to lead the Dane County Republican party this Saturday 03-15-25, even though he is Turning Point USA. Look for black smoke over Middleton at about noon. That’s not smoke from the Vatican conclave but from the musket fire and stink bombs Republicans…

  • Head ’em up! Move ’em out! Rawhide!

    Keep movin’, movin’, movin’Though they’re disapprovin‘ … Serious questions for the peanut gallery: If you knew illegal immigrants were living next door, would you call I.C.E.? If you suspected the strangers in the next church pew were “undocumented,” would you ring the bell? Would it depend? Suspected criminal activity? Untended lawn? We post these impertinences…

  • Blaska’s ballot looks like this:

    Garbage in, garbage out! Unlike The Washington Post — or Amazon.com for that matter — Blaska Policy Werkes endorses candidates. In many cases, we help the candidates we support by endorsing their opponents. The old switcheroo, as KC Chiefs Coach Andy Reid might say. Donald Segretti would be proud. Donald Trump riding a garbage truck…

  • Sharon Hovde strikes back at Tammy

    Candidate’s wife shames the Democrat incumbent! The Werkes has postulated that likability is the secret sauce of successful political campaigns. (Blaska’s limited success being the exception that proves the rule.) On that score, Tammy Baldwin scores high up in Betty White territory. But her campaign for election to a third term in the U.S. Senate…