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Our Founder
and irascible head groundskeeper at the Policy Werkes is David Blaska, former has-been, 33-year card-carrying RINO, recovering know-it-all journalist. Holds the record for banishment on the NextDoor social media app. Aging gracelessly at Stately Blaska Manor on the SW side of Madison WI, the Emerald City.
My pronouns are “Sir” and “Your Lordship” but you dasn’t call me Late For Dinner.
→ “Why I’ll never vote for Trump again.” In Sunday’s 05-21-23 WI State Journal.
→ “Blaska & Me” by Dave Cieslewicz.
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Why Mark Pocan, D-Madison, voted against the debt limit deal
“Forget the debt ceiling. The Biden-McCarthy compromise is a big deal because it is a spending compromise. An important provision of the deal is that if, by the end of the year, the House and Senate haven’t passed 12 appropriations bills (the long-forgotten way budgeting is supposed to work), all discretionary spending would become subject to an automatic 1% cut. This is what is known as a “sequester.” A sequester is to Democrats what garlic is to vampires. …
“The truth today is this: The modern Democratic Party — the party of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the House Squad — won’t cut or slow spending for any existing federal program, ever. Now, Mr. McCarthy’s negotiators have managed to create a wedge against the left’s massive opposition to spending reforms.”
— Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal.
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11 killed, 46 wounded Memorial Day in Chicago
Deadliest Memorial Day weekend there in eight years.
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It is to laugh
“The ‘Chaos’ at the border is by design”
“As a presidential candidate in 2020, Biden criticized Trump for “drastically” restricting access to asylum. Now he’s doing the very same thing.”
— Where else but in The Nation.
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Question of the Day
What ‘Deep State’?
Rachael Rollins, the US attorney for Massachusetts, leaked sensitive Justice Department information to a journalist in an effort to influence a local election, lied to investigators and improperly attended a fundraiser with Jill Biden, according to two critical federal reports released Wednesday. (More here.)
How can anyone take them seriously?
Charles C.W. Cooke asks at National Review.
“Rachel Maddow made a career out of spreading lunatic conspiracy theories on MSNBC, as did Chris Hayes and Nicolle Wallace (who is still, today, rejecting all evidence that contradicts her fever dream). Adam Schiff lied relentlessly from his official perch on the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is now gearing up to run for the Senate.”
Tag Archives: Tommy Thompson
Who will be the last Republican Baghdad Bob?
To excuse Florida Man’s toxicity? Fondly do we remember Baghdad Bob. He was the PR flack for Saddam Hussein who insisted that Iraq was turning back George W. Bush’s coalition forces even as his boss was burying himself in that … Continue reading
Trump endorsed the money
Makes it a two-horse race. If you want Donald Trump’s endorsement, you need to check at least one of three boxes: 🔲 Media personality — as was TV doctor Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania or best-selling author J.D. Vance in Ohio. … Continue reading
Taking the cure (or curse?) at Mar-a-Lago
The (mixed] blessing! Is Mar-a-Lago the Santiago de Compostela of Republicans? Make the journey, fondle the bones, get the blessing? Returning from a pilgrimage to that principality, Tommy Thompson tells the Werkes that the former President anointed him as the … Continue reading
NAACP takes UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank to school
NAACP’s letter demands UW restore Fredric March’s good name September 2021 Dear University of Wisconsin-Madison & University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Communities: … Guided solely by social-media rumor and grievously fact-free, mistaken conclusions – the name of Wisconsin native and Golden Age … Continue reading
Make this the Best Years of Their Lives
Our plea to Tommy Thompson on behalf of university students everywhere! Dear Governor, Mr. Cabinet Secretary, UW System President, My Old Boss: Restrained, moderate Blaska sez: I have some appreciation for the separation of powers at our great university system. Don’t … Continue reading
Wisconsin’s university chancellors are craven cowards
The progressive cancel culture is canceling our culture The NAACP, faith leaders, actors, and alumni wrote this week to the chancellors of the University of Wisconsin campuses at Madison and Oshkosh and to Gov. Tony Evers to restore the good … Continue reading