Fiscal Conservatives – Crony edition

There is another chapter to the ongoing series of stories of how the republican \"fiscal conservatives\" are breaking us. Now comes more information about Walker Crony Cynthia Archer. As JSonline points out, that when the republican legislature went along with Scott Walkers desire to have more political appointments(Umm wasn’t smaller…

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Fiscal Conservatives – Security Edition

Representative Steve Nass (R – Big Government) has taken to bashing the police and the city of Madison once again. The “fiscal conservative” Walker administration and Republican Party of Wisconsin, while making sure to tell us we are broke, have run up more than $8 Million dollars in security costs…

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Fiscal Conservatives — Whackjob Edition

Jeff Simpson has been writing about fiscal conservatives and their hypocritical stances.  The articles are wonderful (here’s the latest), and collected they will make a searing portrait of the GOP, from Ryan to FitzWalker and everyone in between.  I thought I’d go check out those in the GOP who give…

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fiscal conservatives – part 4 (train edition)

In our continuing series of fiscal conservatives we now have a Wisconsin train edition. As reported Wisconsin taxpayers are now having to pay millions for passenger trains. Wisconsin taxpayers could wind up paying more to keep existing passenger train service from Milwaukee to Chicago than they would have paid to…

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Fiscal Conservatives – Part 3

The lights are on in the republican party but in terms of being fiscally conservative, no one is home. H/T Think Progress: In a move that could be called anything but conservative, Republican lawmakers are set to bring a bill to the House floor next week that will repeal state…

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Fiscal Conservatives Part 2

Since we have our ongoing Republican thug series, we will also have a continuing series of fiscal conservatives! 1. Last Friday afternoon(surprise) the republicans introduced their radical redistricting plan. While it is definitely a power grab and more of a wish list than a serious redistricting map(you can read more…

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Fiscal Conservatives

The Republican political “leaders” like like Eric Cantor(who ran from talks on raising the debt ceiling, no word yet if the \"tea party\" is hunting him down for not staying and fighting), and Paul Ryan have deemed themselves “America’s Accountants” They care only about the fiscal well being of our…

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We need fiscal conservatives….

Yes we need fiscal conservatives in Washington to run our government for us. Obviously, President Obama can’t do it, his wife went on vacation. So we need a fundamental change government, so that we can have fiscal conservatives like Linda McMahon, who spent $24 million dollars in a PRIMARY for…

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The Rascally GOP Fiscal Conservative…Spendthrifts In Madison

Despite all of their claims to the contrary, the GOP under the dome in Madison can’t wait to waste taxpayer money. Legal work by an outside firm from the state of MICHIGAN cost the state taxpayers $2.2 million dollars on a $500,000 contract (yeah that’s right) to provide advice on…

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Nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau: Gov. Walker budget raises taxes, fees by $48 million

But remember, Gov. Scott Walker is a fiscal “conservative.” An analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau finds that Gov. Scott Walker’s budget would raise taxes and fees by $48 million. The report released Monday also determines that Walker proposals to bolster tax collection would bring in nearly $125 million…

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