President Obama Remains Distant from Wisconsin Labor Fight

It’s very disappointing to me that the President is keeping the Wisconsin labor movement at arms length.

Ever since the recall wars erupted in this battleground state, the Obama campaign has been faced with a dilemma: How involved does the president get in a polarizing fight with huge national overtones?

Less than two weeks to [...]

Where’s the CRG’s outrage over the criminal charges filed against former Walker staffers?

Back in 2010, the right-wing conservative group Citizens for “Responsible” Government (CRG) filed a complaint with the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office accusing lefty blogger Chris “capper” Liebenthal of “operating three political internet blogs during work hours,” which the folks from CRG alleged to be felony Misconduct in Public Office.

As a result of the [...]

A Lot of Ironic Irony is Ironically Ironic

Friends of Scott Walker are involved in credit card fraud?  CapitalOne thinks so.

When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on April 14, her credit card was declined. Later, she said, she found out why: Her credit card company, Capital One, had flagged an earlier purchase as potentially fraudulent. The problem? A $5 donation [...]

Newt Gingrich Channels Peter Riegert

Boon: “A vicious mother, isn’t he.”

Otter: “He can’t do that to our pledges!”

Boon: “Yeah!  Only we can do that to our pledges!”

When Gingrich accused Romney and Bain of taking over companies and downsizing them at the expense of workers, he was widely condemned by fellow Republicans and eventually backed off.

This week [...]

Yer Librul Medya Re-ducks

It is, you know… Even worse…

Once upon a time, two highly respected denizens of two of Washington’s toniest think-tanks got together and wrote a book.  It was a wonderful book, full of truth and insight and actually made the claim that, no, in fact, both sides don’t do it.  Only one side does it. [...]

Agitprop Wisconsin!

Scott Walker's Updated Job Numbers are like a Shiny New Kopek! And about as valuable!

Data has always been putty to be molded by propagandists into informational power.  Through the inclusion of irrelevant data or the exclusion of relevant data, these students of Stalin use the data to fabricate a “reality.”  They rely on the [...]

Hopey / Changey 2012

Obama has been, in this writer’s opinion, on balance, a failure.  And unlike our conservative colleagues who rally round their leaders in slavish, thrall-like adoration, unquestioning and unchallenging regardless of their inadequacies, I believe progressives should be better than that.  We have to be better than that.  Through moral obligation, we must hold our politician’s feet to the [...]

In Which Bristol Palin is Sorely Ill Treated; and we all Smile With Delight

This is the must-read editorial of the year so far.  Frank Bruni takes Bristol Palin and the whole hypocritical, self-righteous wing of the Republican party to task.  His abhorrence of Little Miss Palin seems unquenchable.

Bristol Palin

so perfectly distills the double standards and audacity of so many of our country’s self-appointed moralists and supposed traditionalists: hypocrites [...]

The Forever War on Women -or- The GOP is just the Tip of the Iceberg

It’s been a long, long, long war…

March 30th, 1912

To the Editor of The Times.

Sir,

After reading Sir Almroth Wright’s able and weighty exposition of women as he knows them the question seems no longer to be “Should women have votes?” but “Ought women not to be abolished altogether?”

I have been so [...]

Things That Appall Me

Pro Right-to-Work wingnut Walker supporter, Diane Hendricks, star of the now-famous video where Walker declares his intent to “divide and conquer,” paid no corporate income taxes in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

During a three-month period in 2012, Hendricks donated $500,000 to Walker’s campaign, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. She is the largest single donor to [...]