Author: Jeff Simpson

Today Tom Barrett, flanked by Senator Jon Erpenbach and Senator Taylor gave a press conference at the Capitol. H/T @wtdynews WTDY News ‏ @wtdynews Barrett cuts press conference short after he’s grilled on MKE city employee concessions & Rahm Emanuel fundraiser. http://twitpic.com/9bqdr4 Do we really want a governor scared to…

Scott 6:5

Recently on the ridiculous Fox News show Hannity, the token Democrat on the show, had his fill of republican ignorance and dropped the “F-Bomb” on live TV. While the right wing is making the take away from this, the fact that someone who skews democratic, swore on national tv(so all…

Is it real? You judge for yourself when you have politicians like this: At least Kathleen Falk is addressing this important issue:

The King of Pop, covered splendidly by 2 Cellos

I recently wrote about how mediatrackers and Verify The Recall were working together to "out" people who signed the recall petition. The sole purpose of VTR was to intimidate and harass anyone who signed the petition. They have done a very good job of it even getting some media outlets…

The new GOP Runs as fast and as far from Scott Walker as they can! H/T Politico: Rob McKenna, the two-term attorney general who is aiming to become the Evergreen State’s first Republican governor in more than 30 years, told a gathering of Puget Sound Carpenters last week that he’ll…

As Scott Walker likes to travel the country and use the same stale lines of a few “union bosses” running the state and how do we want them deciding what happens in WI or the taxpayers of Wisconsin deciding our future. Presumably, Walker is aligning himself with the taxpayers of…

Terrible Ted Nugent made news recently. No it was not his endorsement of Tommy Thompson or Mitt Romney that made news. It was this anti American crazed rant that made the headlines: Which shows not only how unhinged that Ted and many of the far right loons are, but also…

Over the weekend, two of the most knowledgeable people on our economy spoke up and neither were very kind to Paul Ryan (R – Wall St). The first is Nobel laureate economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz: “Democracies can withstand cuts without seeing light at the end of the…