Tag: Mitch McConnell

  • America needs the odd man out

    Celebrating those who dared poke! A popular Madison radio talker and (I think) still friend says “Watching Trump unload on Mitch McConnell makes you want to cheer.” As if the former leader of Senate Republicans is the problem. We, ourselves, preach it’s never too early to go negative. Lee Atwater got it right the first…

  • Stabbed in the back!

    Trump didn’t lose! He was betrayed! “We have seen the enemy and he is us,” Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously said.  A good many of my political tribe regard their fellow Republicans as enemies. They are convinced that a species they call “RINOs” stabbed Donald Trump in the back — much as certain…

  • Turtle beats hare in US Senate

    We like our politics 100-proof and unfiltered! You may have suspected that the head groundskeeper at the Stately Manor is off his meds, as punch drunk as Pee Wee Herman on an all-night toot on the Vegas Strip. Now you have proof. Blaska has a man crush on Mitch McConnell. More wily than the Warner…

  • Would Donald Trump accept Joe Manchin?

    Would the senator rather switch AND fight? Question of the day for the Werkes advisory (and unpaid) peanut gallery: should Joe Manchin switch parties? Come over to the dark side? Join the Republican party? Wouldn’t be the first. The last U.S. Senator to do so was Arlen Specter in 2009; he turned Democrat. Here in Wisconsin,…

  • This time — like last time — fair maps

    All politics is loco A progressive putsch? The previous installment of your favorite Blogge reported that Madison is redrawing its aldermanic districts to conform with the 2020 Census. Now the context: The maps throw council moderates Gary Halverson, Sheri Carter, and Barbara Harrington McKinney against Woke progressive incumbents. This correspondence references Halverson’s district. → UPDATE:…

  • Recrimination is not a winning message

    Can we get back to the future sometime soon? A certain former President ripped into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell before a Republican National Committee donor event Saturday evening 04-10-21, deriding him as a “dumb son of a bitch.” Mitch McConnell may be many things. A ‘dumb son of a bitch’ he is not. This…