Tommy should take Sue Ann’s advice…

…and quit while he’s ahead, instead of mounting a challenge to Sen. Russ Feingold: When I mention recent rumors of a very partisan political race—Tommy Thompson vs. Russ Feingold in the upcoming U.S. Senate election—Sue Ann is candid. “I try to stay out of it. Does it bother me when…

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Bunning blocks unemployment benefits extension, tells Dem ‘Tough S–t’

Republican U.S. Senator Jim Bunning from Kentucky is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month. As Democratic senators asked again and again for unanimous consent for a vote on a 30-day extension Thursday night, Bunning refused…

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A health care chart

Yesterday I touched on some of the steep increases to health insurance premiums here in Wisconsin and across the nation, but being the fan of charts that I am, I put together a chart outlining some of the more dramatic health insurance premiums across the nation. Proposed/Implemented Health Insurance Premium…

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