Robin Vos’ Latest Stupid Idea!

Everyone including Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) admit that the state revenue sharing formula isn’t working. I discussed this a bit a few weeks ago. Milwaukee now has a new generation of leadership and they don’t have the divisive political baggage of their predecessors. So Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson…

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Time To Pass The Lindsey Graham Double Dippin’ Is Verboten Bill??

As we continue to see the angst and concern about Social Security being emoted around Capitol Hill, maybe a first baby step would be a bill to deny social security benefits to electeds who retire with more than adequate and generous federal pensions. Not sure if the feds can enforce…

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Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Did I Miss The House Reading The US Constitution Or Did McCarthy Just Dive Into The Nonsense Straight Away?

I tried Google but I don’t see any trace of the US House of Representatives reading the US Constitution as its first official act as promised by compromised and gelded House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. If you have a link to the 118th Congress reading the USC, please post it in…

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Remember When Ron Johnson Ran For Senate To Solve Inflation?

You should remember, it was just a month ago. One of Ron Johnson’s three main campaign platform planks was…we needed to re-elect him so he could fight to solve inflation. Well, it’s just been a month after his narrow victory over Wisconsin’s Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, and it’s investigate, investigate,…

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So Now We Have The CHIPS bill…Can We Manufacture The Dang Things In That Money Pit In Mount Pleasant.

So the feds have passed a bill to encourage and subsidize the manufacture of computer chips in the United States. And the president has signed it. Besides increasing manufacturing opportunities in this country, the secondary goal is to solve some of the supply chain issues that are vexing any number…

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Cancel Culture? Mike Gableman Understands How To Use It!

I have gotten used to the GOP lies and misinformation and misdirection…and then moments later moving in the other direction when they sense a wind shift. But it’s always amused me when they go on and one about cancel culture while they are doing precisely that. This article is behind…

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What A Bunch Of Self-Serving Assholes In The US Senate

I have only listened to a bit over two hours of the Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings. But I have heard at least two Senators ask a question to how she might rule if violation of laws that they had authored and gotten passed would come to the Supreme…

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The One Thing The Wisconsin Legislature Taught Us in 2020:

Wisconsin doesn’t need a full time legislature! Despite being in the worst pandemic in a century and the resulting economic fall out, in 2020, the Wisconsin State Legislature didn’t meet for months on end and took insignificant actions to solve the problems the state and the nation faced…other than suing…

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And Robin Vos Could Have Had A Retired Judge Who Knows How Elections Work!

Remember the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board? Most of you probably do and we’ve written about it a number of times over the years. But the GAB was a non-partisan board of nine retired judges who were tasked with the oversight of government ethics, elections, and campaign finance in Wisconsin. So…

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Company that benefited from Trump administration largesse has not delivered on promises

It looks like the corrupt, criminal administration of former President Donald Trump just keeps sticking it to America’s taxpayers… A year after a Connecticut company was awarded almost $1.3 billion in federal loans and contracts to supply an essential syringe for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, no syringes have been made. The syringe…

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