Newly elected Republican lawmaker wants his govt.-subsidized health care NOW!

Why doesn’t this surprise me? A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan from the government takes a month to kick in.

The lawmaker in question is Republican Andy Harris, who defeated incumbent Democratic [...]

Let the flip flops begin…..

H/t to James Rowen. The story in the Journal Sentinel today, shows that Scott Walker is now trying to find a way to not start out his reign in the hole and still please his look good to his major donors, and appease the hate radio squawkers in the state.

For the first time, Gov.-elect [...]

“STOP THAT TRAIN…

I owe my donors HUGE favors!” – Scott Walker!

As Dan Bice of the Journal Sentinal online points out:

For Governor-elect Scott Walker, there are more than 128,000 reasons to favor using tax dollars on roads instead of rail.

Scores of road builders opened their wallets for the Republican candidate in the recent election.

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I solved the federal budget deficit!

Granted, I did it within the confines of the choices offered by the New York Times, but I solved the federal budget deficit!

H/T to Fairly Conservative.

Marty Beil isn’t backing down

Watch as Marty Beil, Executive Director of AFSCME Council 24, explains how the state of Wisconsin and its labor unions are going to continue to negotiate contracts for the 2009-2011 contract cycle, despite attempts to stop the process by governor-elect Scott Walker.