Month: February 2012

I’m damn proud to say I know a few of the amazing women who graduated from Emerge Wisconsin’s most recent class of women ready to become leaders in our state: Madison – On Saturday, February 25th, Emerge Wisconsin graduated its sixth class of Democratic women who are ready to run…

What an absolute moron… Court documents say Demet admitted to an investigator that he circulated the petitions against state Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, in question and signed the names of other people, one of whom is dead. That was Ralph Petersen whose wife Violet was also fraudulently listed on a…

At last night’s monthly meeting of the Milwaukee County Democratic Party, I had the opportunity to hear Democratic State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, who has declared herself a candidate in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, addressed a standing room only crowd. After Sen. Vinehout made her remarks, I had an opportunity to…

  Economist Brad DeLong gets all misty… You know, I went to Washington in 1993 to work for what we called Lloyd Bentsen’s Treasury as part of the sane technocratic bipartisan center. And it took me only two months–two months!–to conclude that America’s best hope for sane technocratic governance required…

This is all sorts of awesomesauce! If you’d like to learn more about how you can help Lori Compas send Republican State Sen. Scott Fitzgerald packing, you can check out her official campaign website or her Facebook page.

This is absolutely perfect.

Oklahoma republican representative John Sullivan is a huge supporter of Paul Ryan (R- Wall St.). So much so that he is willing to do whatever it takes to pass the Paul Ryan Budget. You know the one that ends Medicare as we know it. The budget that no democrat in…

H/T Milwaukee Business Journal's Rich Rovito On Badger Meter Inc. Chairman Rich Meeusen. Meeusen took part in a three person panel discussion he offered up a few cases of foot-in-mouth disease: “In a city like Milwaukee, one of the major products we produce are high school dropouts,” he said. After…

Bloomberg News, irony of ironies, is reporting on a new study that shows wealthy people are more likely to lie and cheat. Get a load of this: The “upper class,” as defined by the study, were more likely to break the law while driving, take candy from children, lie in…

Charles P. Pierce over at the Esquire Politics Blog is my favorite new source of 100% Prime USDA Black Angus Snark.  Take this tasty little morsel of pure Kobe snark, for example! Ross Douthat, official young sexytime correspondent of The New York Times, spirals out of his comfort zone this morning and finds…