Tag: Ron Johnson
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Democrats: ‘Too woke, too extreme’
Do Not Resuscitate! Four factors will make Tony Evers a one-term governor next November: 1) Woke public schools — in particular, their capitulation to critical race theory, transgenderism, chaos in the classroom, and dumbed down academics in the name of “equity.” Tony Evers ran the Department of Public Instruction for eight years; he wears that…
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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:…
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A kinder, gentler Republican party?
A most decent man is Senator Ron Johnson Just returned from the Wisconsin Republican Convention in Wisconsin Dells today 06-26-21. Some quick thoughts: Blown away by Sen. Ron Johnson again this fine Saturday in June. His talk was more Saturday sermon than political peroration. Urged Republicans to be better people, about not responding in kind to…
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Blaska gets out of Facebook jail
Facebook redemption We have escaped Facebook Jail! For three days and nights we rotted inside the rank hole of oblivion, unable to share our paranoia and recrimination with the rest of the world. Was it something we said? We crawled through 500 yards of filth and came out the other side even meaner. We…
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A sick and twisted progressive hit job
Politics of the personal Sometime soon, Dave Zweifel will write about the good old days when Democrats and Republicans could sit down and get blotto together at the old Congress Bar off Madison’s Capitol Square. If the editor emeritus asks what happened to those days, ask him to read his own newspaper. The Capital Times…
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All the news that fits the Democratic agenda
Get vaccinated against the fatal scourge of GroupThink The best thing about U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-WI, is that he infuriates the dishonest hypocrites of the Left. (They were for the filibuster before they were against it.) Our RoJo gives their uplifted noses a good hard twist. The essential Kimberley Strassel protests the attempted political assassination…