Month: November 2016
Thursday music: Steve Carlson – A Hell of A Time
I hate Christmas. I hate the mindless rush of freneticism that passes for celebration, the nagging sense of obligation to run out and buy crap that someone may or may not want, and the stress of being pulled, every year, in multiple directions simultaneously so that no one on either…
Christian Schneider Proved Gerrymandering Exists in Wisconsin.
Ironically GOP shill and right wing apologist, JSOnline’s Opinion blogger Christian Schneider recently set out to damn the federal court ruling on WI redistricting and prove gerrymandering didn’t exist. When in fact he proved that it does. In typical Mr. Schneider style book meanderings he starts off with something that…
Donald “drain the swamp” Trump to name Wall Street executive to head Treasury Department
Remember during the presidential campaign when president-elect Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” that is Washington, D.C.? I do, but what I don’t remember is when on the campaign trail he promised to put the foxes in charge of guarding the henhouse, but that’s exactly what he seems poised…
Trump Needs To Publically Fire Kellyanne Conway
Regular readers of this blog site know that I have little use for Donald Trump and even less use for Kellyanne Conway. But this has nothing to do with those feelings. Kellyanne Conway took her concerns about the potential appointment of Mitt Romney as Secretary of State to the airwaves…
Nancy Pelosi Has Got To Go
I have no axe to grind with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. I respect her accomplishments as a member of the House, as the first woman Speaker of the House, and most recently as minority leader. But if we haven’t learned from the 2016 presidential election cycle, particularly from the…
Christine Welcher: The 2016 election is over – where do we go from here?
The election is over. My mind is slowly coming out of its frozen, numb state. I’m beginning to do some deep soul searching as to what happened on Tuesday. While many are mourning over Trump’s election, my tears have been for the State of Wisconsin. Dems did not pick up…
Democracy is Coming to the USA
Another one from Leonard Cohen. Let’s hope he’s right.
Campaign Training for Potential Progressive Candidates
In a number of fairly recent posts I have been urging new faces to get involved in party politics. Well the other shoe in that equation is to run for elected office at the local and state level to help make the changes that you want to see. But that…
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