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Posted by Zach on August 31, 2010, at 5:33 am

Accountability? Not on Scott Walker’s watch!

Under John Chianelli’s watch, problems at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex were rampant, finally boiling over when allegations that a violent male patient had sexually assaulted a female patient, resulting in that female patient becoming pregnant, despite the fact that she was supposed to have been getting birth control injections. Last week Wednesday [...]

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 30, 2010, at 9:52 pm

taxed enough already….Old School!

The “tea” parties were an annual event that with enough money from with enough money from the Koch Brothers, and an aggressive free PR campaign from Fox \”news\”, and it seems like these collections of loons are popping up everywhere like dandelions in the spring. We even had The rodeo clown glen beck, draw [...]

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 29, 2010, at 10:44 pm

The “liberal” media…

Recently, to no one’s surprise, Ken Mehlmann, the former Bush-Cheney campaign manager and head of the republican party, came out as gay.

While the story is not that a gay man, helped the bush-cheney campaign run a bigoted anti-gay campaign in order to win election, that story has been played out numerous times. [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 27, 2010, at 7:22 am

Brett Davis is a grade-A hypocrite

In a recent press release, Republican Lt. Governor candidate Brett “Don’t call me a moderate anymore” Davis said it was “absurd” that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections is using paying for driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards for prison inmates. However, while Brett Davis has busied himself attacking the program that enables inmates to [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 26, 2010, at 5:47 am

Ron Johnson: for corporate welfare before he was against it!

Ron does not believe the federal government is capable of picking ‘winners and losers’ and should not remove capital from the private sector to create more government programs and jobs, which are unsustainable.

– Ron Johnson for Senate website

But while Ron Johnson’s U.S. Senate website says one thing, back in the [...]

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Posted by MadCityMan on August 25, 2010, at 11:00 am

Oppo Research – “Extreme” Ad from the GOP

Take note of the Feingold reference in the ad – dead heat, but they somehow couldn’t find a picture of Ron Johnson? [...]

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Posted by MadCityMan on August 25, 2010, at 9:10 am

Media Matters on Rupert’s $1 Million RGA Donation

You may have heard that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, parent company of Faux News, donated $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association. Media Matters crafted this ad in response to the donation. [...]

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 24, 2010, at 10:39 am

unfortunately more on the “mosque”…

Recently there was huge discussion on this very blog, and joined in by many of our right wing friends decrying the horror of putting the Mosque up on Ground Zero. As usual, our right wing friends were not being truthful, and we find out that the Mosque isnt a Mosque, but a community center. [...]

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 24, 2010, at 10:09 am

Yea but George Soros…

In the 90′s the republican party could not stand the fact that they no longer had the presidency, so the billionaires of the party(Richard Mellon Scaife), started the Arkansas Project, strictly to discredit Bill Clinton. The whole time, in order to distract from what they were doing, complained about the one liberal billionaire, George [...]

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 22, 2010, at 9:39 pm

Unfortunately, it is not out of the realm of possibility…

A quick browse of the Huffington Post and my eye caught this story. After a nice belly laugh, I started looking elsewhere on the page and came across these stories also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/rod-blagojevich-future-in-politics-fox-news_n_690372.html

It was symbolic when the six Republican candidates for U.S. Senate stood up together side-by-side during a debate Wednesday. It resembled their [...]

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