Governor Walker Does NOT care…

He does not care about the facts, he does not care about the people of Wisconsin, he does not care that he has helped divided our state like no one ever had and he does not care about the upcoming recall election. If he did he would acknowledge the reasons…

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Obama(does)Care

Last year, I wrote many times on Rebecca Kleefisch who took time away from fighting cancer to do what she could politically to make sure that not everyone would have the same access to life saving treatment as she did. I even gave her my inaugeral Turkey of the Year…

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THIS is what Democracy Looks Like

This chant has been used a few times in the last year in WI, sometimes legit and sometimes a stretch. It probably has never fit more than in this case. Our friends at Dane 101 have the story: Lori Compas never planned to become a one-woman political committee. A freelance…

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OECD Reconfirms CBO Findings on Inequality in America

I don’t think Newt will have much luck destroying the OECD the way he’d like to destroy the “reactionary socialist institution” of the Congressional Budget Office, though he might try.

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Doyle Did It Without An Overreach

Lest we forget, Governor Jim Doyle managed to extract concessions from the state employee unions without the massive overreach that is going to cost Governor Walker his job.

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Because of Magic Pixie Fairy Dust?

Ask a Republican why the Bush tax cuts didn’t create any jobs and this is the kind of answer you get.

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Attack on Teachers!

Heather @ Monologues of Dissent recently write an “open letter” where she gave this nickname to Scott Walker: Scott “Teachers Are Thugs” Walker. While it turns out he has never specifically said those exact words, that is just splitting hairs, because he has been one of the driving forces this…

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“The time for social justice through government money is over…”

The political philosophy of Robin Vos (R-1%).  Everything is perfect, nothing left to fix.  Except for that whole racism thing.  Oh, and the poverty thing.  I leave it to the Root River Siren to carry on the story.

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Lies, Damn Lies and Conservative Statistics

All one in the same.  Let’s talk job growth, unions and right-to-work laws, shall we?

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“Wisconsin is a State…that is absolutely riddled with republican frauds”

Is what Reince Priebus meant to say. Instead he got his words mixed up on MSNBC… Wisconsin is a state “that was absolutely riddled with voter fraud.” His reinceness is not one who has ever let the truth leak from his weasely lips, ask his former good friend Michael Steele,…

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