Defeating Scott Walker

I’ve never been one to endorse a candidate or publicly lean towards one during a primary election. And in Wisconsin, we could be headed for one next fall.  But there are some things which need to be addressed about our current situation.  A lot of people are questioning the state…

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Why The Affordable Care Act Isn’t A Train Wreck!

We’ve been inundated with talking points from the Tea Party and the Republican Party on how the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is a train wreck. We’ve seen the uproarious political cartoons from the right that let us know that the ACA, aka Obamacare, is a train wreck. Well here’s…

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The Hypocrisy Of Republicans on Benghazi and the Navy Yard

In between voting the 41st time and the 42nd time to repeal or defund Obamacare, the Republicans have reopened their investigation into Benghazi! They are irate that four Americans lost their lives in a terrorist attack in what is essentially a lawless area of a foreign country still in the…

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Once last word on Rep. Todd Akin

There has been enough press coverage on the Missouri Representative’s Dark Ages ideas on rape that I don’t need to reprise the issue again here on Blogging Blue. But rather than this plank from the 2012 Republican Party Platform: The Republican campaign platform denounces contraceptive education in schools. Instead, it…

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Cal Thomas is full of it (again)!

In the Thursday June 14, 2012 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Perspectives page, Cal Thomas opines on ‘Why are Republicans the only ones called extreme?). NOTE: I believe that headline was written by MJS editors since it is different than the one on Thomas’ website which can be found here. His opening…

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Most Shaming? Republican? Neo-Nazi? Militia Member? Who Knows?

As far as I can tell, Jason Todd Ready, who yesterday killed a few family members and then, presumably, himself, seemed proud of his affiliations with Neo-Nazis and illegal militias.  Was he as equally proud of his affiliation with the Republican Party?  Gosh, who knows?  It is all so open…

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“The Republican Party is severely dysfunctional, not severely conservative”

Political scientist Jonathan Bernstein has some comments on the recent Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein OpEd which has generated so much discussion in the political blogverse.  He has some interesting observations to add to the original findings. The key is what all of Mann and Ornstein’s examples are about, which is radicalism…

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GOP Bullies

Interesting read at alternet this morning: Most conservatives now openly reject the very idea of democracy. Whether it’s corporatists seeking to own every branch of government and privatize every public institution, security and intelligence types cracking down on our civil liberties, or Christian nationalists out to turn the country into…

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Republicans again immune to their hypocrisy in Madison

This morning Milwaukee Public Radio featured two news items back to back that exemplified the hypocrisy in the Republican legislature. The announcer played it straight but I am sure someone in the newsroom understood the irony in what they were doing! I haven’t gone back and vetted every word or…

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Republican Humor?

Steve pointed out earlier that republicans and humor just don't mix. Unless of course you fill it with racism then that cracks the whole republican room up. Now we have Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s good friend and confidant Frank Luntz going to the racism well to win his right wing…

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