Gerrymandering Comes Back to Bite the GOP

The Democrats have been fighting the 2010 gerrymandering cases in the courts because the GOP drawn districts have made it far more difficult for them to win elections in local districts. But actually gerrymandering has also come back to bite the moderate and traditional Republicans as well. If districts were…

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Bernie Sanders Finally Needs to Throw Down With the Democratic Party

Before I get into my rant, let me put this on the table. I have identified as a Democrat since the presidential election in 1960. I became a card carrying member of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin when I worked on the Todd Kolosso’s campaign to defeat Representative Jim Sensenbrenner…

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I Like Trump Cause He Gets Things Done

When you watch coverage of Donald Trump and the media starts to ask local citizens about their reasons for supporting Donald Trump you often hear the refrain that “He gets things done!” Well I don’t know how he will get things done in Washington. Despite his apparent misunderstanding about the…

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Peter King: Boehner resignation signals “the crazies have taken over the party”

It looks the House Republican Party might turn into a circus now that Speaker John Boehner has announced he’ll be leaving Congress at the end of October. House Speaker John Boehner’s sudden resignation Friday “signals that the crazies have taken over the party,” New York Republican Peter King said Friday….

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VIDEO: Terrified “Tea Party Patriot” realizes he could lose Obamacare if GOP wins in 2016

There’s huge heaping dose of irony in this story of James Webb, a conservative video blogger who said this week he would likely vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton because he was terrified a Republican president would take away the affordable health insurance he now enjoys thanks to ObamaCare….

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Who says life doesn’t imitate art?

In that time of day when the sun isn’t quite up so it isn’t actually day, yet it isn’t exactly night–a pretty magical time I think, I realized that Scott Walker running for President is a lot like that Frank Sinatra movie, “The Manchurian Candidate”, a political thriller directed by…

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Wisconsin progressives: the original Tea Partiers

Over at The Atlantic, Michael Wolraich has an excellent article outlining how Wisconsin progressives like “Fighting Bob” La Follette were the original Tea Party challenging the political status quo. If “Fighting Bob” were alive today, he’d be howling in the Capitol. A hundred years before the Tea Parties, Senator Bob…

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Obama Boehner Walker Dimitrijevic

For the past six years the various left and progressive groups have been screaming about the obstructionists in the House of Representatives aided and abetted by Speaker John Boehner. Accused of hewing the company line, being co-opted by the tea party jihad, or out and out racism, the right has…

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Could Robin Vos be Wisconsin’s Eric Cantor?

Last month, former House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the Republican primary for the seat he held to Dave Brat, a relatively unknown tea party candidate who Cantor outspent by a wide margin. At the time I noted the 2014 election cycle could end up being interesting after all,…

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HuffPo: Chair Of Mississippi College Republicans Resigns To Become A Democrat

I’m betting we’ll see more reasonable folks leave the Republican Party as it continues lurching further and further to the far right end of the political spectrum to please its Tea Party base. The first Hispanic chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans resigned Monday because of his concerns…

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