God Bless Bernie Sanders

http://www.bernie.org/

Senator Sanders is currently filibustering(yes actually filibustering) the renewal of the bush tax cuts. God Bless Bernie! Check him out at the above link!

“You can call what I am doing today whatever you want, you it call it a filibuster, you can call it a very long speech. I’m not here to [...]

The Republicans sent a clear message yesterday

Like the House did once, although it eventually passed, the Senate yesterday sent the message that the heroes of 9/11 are on their own. They let it be known that any attempt by Americans to help their fellow Americans will now be frowned upon in “tea party” America. The Senate republicans yesterday blocked health aid [...]

“Impartial” Justice Prosser promises to be complement to Republicans

Apparently Justice David Prosser isn’t a big believer in three independent branches of government (emphasis mine): “Our campaign efforts will include building an organization that will return Justice Prosser to the bench, protecting the conservative judicial majority and acting as a common sense compliment to both the new administration and legislature.”

In response to Justice [...]

Milwaukee to Madison rail funds pulled & reallocated to other states

As noted by Proud Progressive yesterday, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced yesterday it is pulling all but a fraction of the $810 million allocated to Wisconsin for a high speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison, with the money being reallocated to fund high speed rail lines in California, Florida, Illinois and nine other [...]