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Watch as President Barack Obama shares his 2012 federal budget plan, a plan markedly different than the one proposed by House Republicans. President Obama made it abundantly clear he won’t allow Republicans to turn Medicare into a voucher-based system (as they’ve proposed) simply to give tax breaks to the richest…

As our very own Governor Scott Walker likes to say: “We’re Broke and Can’t Negotiate” and as the right wing likes to say we need to get people off welfare: People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty….

In the craziness of the last month, there has been so much (good and bad) happening that it is impossible to catch it all. I had caught bits and pieces of this speech, but here is Wisconsin farmer Tony Schultz in its entirety. One quick note: having grown up on…

This weekend marks the 100th Birthday of Ronald Reagan. There will be numerous tributes and lovefests regarding Mr. Reagan, unfortunately they will more resemble the myth of Ron Reagan instead of the real man. Thanks to Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, many people will not have any idea of the man…

Now that the Reagan presidency has been 20+ years in the past, many people have no idea what what actually happened during his presidency. The problem was the right wing Reagan Legacy project where Staunch republicans have rewritten history to make Reagan out to be a hero. They even coined…

This is worth a read… A significant challenge in an incumbent president’s party is one of the classic harbingers of defeat — one of American University professor Allan Lichtman’s famous “13 keys” to the presidency. Another, though, is waging an unpopular war or either scoring a major foreign policy victory…

From Harry S.Truman to Jimmy Carter, every U.S. president – Republican and Democrat – steadily paid down the debt our nation incurred during our fight against Germany, Japan, and the rest of the Axis powers in World War II, but that pattern came to an end during the presidency of…

Nationally, Republicans are trying to portray themselves as deficit hawks concerned about the deficit spending of President Obama and elected Democrats, who are trying to pull the country out of a deep recession. At the same time, those same “deficit hawk” Republicans are calling for an extension of the George…

“We may not know all of Johnson’s positions yet,” writes Mike H of Letters in Bottles, but despite not knowing anything about what Ron Johnson stands for (besides freedom), Mike H thinks Ron Johnson is supremely qualified to serve in the United States Senate, simply because Johnson is a business…

After weeks of speculation, it’s official: former Doyle administration commerce secretary Dick Leinenkugel is joining the Republican U.S. Senate primary, with hopes of unseating incumbent U.S. Senator Russ Feingold. To say the reaction to Leinenkugel’s announcement unenthusiastic would be a gross understatement; reaction to Leinenkugel’s announcement was about as flat…