No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for November 15th, 2006

Rudy and McShame and Tommy – oh my!

(H/T for the Tommy announcement – Fred)

Where, oh where has Ronald Reagan gone? The crop of “Republicans” that have announced a run for the Presidency so far, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Tommy Thompson do not exactly inspire me.

For you out-of-state readers who only know Thompson as an invisible HHS Secretary, he has exactly two conservative accomplishments to his name in his 15 years as governor; welfare reform and school choice (that’s right, both of those actually started in Wisconsin before the national party noticed). Other than that, he is a big-spending social moderate-to-liberal who views conservatives with such distain that he had the “Republican” Party of Wisconsin essentially abandon Mark Neumann in his run against Russ Feingold in 1998.

Of course that’s 2 more than I can think of for McCain, and one more than I can for Giuliani.

First two taxes to go up in Doyle’s second term – vehicles and drivers

by @ 17:50. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

Here’s the increased “fee” schedule proposed by the Department of Transportation:

  • Cars – up from $55 to $80, a 44% increase
  • Light trucks weighing less than 4,501 pounds – up from $48.50 to $80, a 65% increase
  • Light trucks weighing between 4,501 and 6,000 pounds – up from $61.50 to $89, a 44.7% increase
  • Light trucks weighing between 6,001 and 8,000 pounds – up from $77.50 to $112, a 44.5% increase

Those tax hikes, which will dump $208 million into the coffers over the next 2 years, will allegedly go to “critical” road needs such as road maintenance and rebuilding the Vote Fraud/FIB Highway between Illinois and Milwaukee. More likely, it, like the $600+ million raided by Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) in the last budget, will go to contributors of Doyle.

Further, they want to increase the fees for the 8-year driver’s licenses from $24 to $34, a 42% increase. Supposedly, that $22 million over the next 2 years will go toward federal requirements to make the licenses a more secure form of ID.

Look for the ‘Rat-infested State Senate to propose a return to the automatic increase in gasoline taxes next year as well. Yipee; we can be COMPLETELY hostile to drivers now.

“Thank” you, Mary Panzer and Dale Schultz, for not taking any action to protect the taxpayers.

More for the roll

by @ 17:00. Filed under The Blog.

If you’re not reading these folks, you should be:

PeteRepublic
Slublog

I’ve also done what, for me is a major revamp of the roll (I removed a deactivated blog).

Craps Tax Anti-Freeze Sublimination now complete

by @ 14:29. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin, Taxes.

Jim "Craps" Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale), as quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in July 2005 – ""˜The result of the freeze that I will sign will be that the average property tax on the average home will not go up at all next year, and will actually go down $5"² in December 2006."

County Board Supervisors Gerry Broderick, Toni Clark, Elizabeth Coggs-Jones, Lynne De Bruin, Marina Dimitrijevic, Chairman Lee Holloway, Willie Johnson Jr, Michael Mayo Sr., Ryan McCue, Richard Nyklewicz Jr., Roger Quindel, John Weishan Jr., Peggy West and James White to the taxpayers of Milwaukee County – A 3.6% levy increase this year AND a guaranteed 5% levy increase next year because of irresponsible spending is just all right with us. PPPHHHHTTTTHHHHH!!!!!!

I want my $5, Doyle. I didn’t get it from the city of Oak Creek, the Oak Creek/Franklin School District, Milwaukee County because of the board, Milwaukee Area Technical College, or Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. I highly doubt I’m getting it from the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. That leaves it to come out of your pocket.

For the rest of you, this tax anti-freeze ends this year, and thanks to you dumbshits in the 5th, 21st, 23rd and 31st Senate Districts and to the 53% of Wisconsin that are too stupid to know a corrupt politician when you see one, there won’t even be this standing betwee the wallets of the taxpayers of Wisconsin and the vaccuum cleaners that have property tax levying authority. Hello, double-digit tax increases.

Let the recalls begin anew.

Republican Meltaway turns into a whole Lott of Cave

by @ 14:02. Filed under Politics - National.

Too many hat-tips to dole out, so I’ll just choose one at “random” – Michelle

Trent Lott is back in power. By a 25-24 vote, he edged out Lamar Alexander for minority whip, the #2 position in the Senate.

Personally, I would have left the position open like they did between 1937 and 1946. Alexander just proved how worthless he is at getting votes, the main job of a whip. While Lott was a moderately-successful whip back in 1995-1996, he has been caving to the ‘Rats ever since he assumed the “leadership” position. Just a couple of gems from Lott:

  • He couldn’t get 51 of 55 Pubbie Senators to convict Bill Clinton on either of the impeachment charges tried in the Senate in 1999.
  • On the Tony Snow radio show in 2005, when describing why he wouldn’t accept criticism from Pubbies for working with ‘Rats, he said, “(T)hey’re the same ones who threw me overboard. I’m free. I don’t have to work with them anymore.”

I don’t know if there’s enough Maalox in the world to fix this bleeding ulcer.

New toys added

by @ 10:25. Filed under The Blog.

Put SiteMeter and the TTLB Ecosystem on here.

Republican Meltaway to be complete by November 2008

by @ 7:10. Filed under Politics - National.

(H/T – Michelle Malkin)

Reuters is reporting that RNC general-chair-to-be Sen. Mel Martinez (RINO-FL) will not be an “attack dog” (note; the excerpt is rearranged slightly to move Sen. Martinez’ quote to the top to replace Reuters’ summary of that quote) –

“One of the things that I made clear as I discussed this job role with the president is I was not going to be an attack dog, and I don’t intend to, and I wasn’t asked to be one,” (Sen. Mel Martinez) told reporters at the White House.

President (George W.) Bush gave Martinez his blessing at a meeting in the Oval Office, calling the Cuban-born senator an American success story.

“He’s going to be an excellent spokesman for the Republican Party,” Bush said. “He’ll be a person who’ll be able to carry our message as we go into an important year in 2008.”

Two comments:

  • Well, rolling over sure worked REAL well for the Republican Party in 2006…NOT! The Dems have both Houses of Congress and the majority of governorships. It may have worked out swell for President Bush, the One North America crowd, and fans of Gigantic Gubmint but I’m not part of those groups.
  • What message is the Republican Party carrying going into 2008? It sure isn’t small government or a unique American culture. The only thing left that separates Pubbies from Dems is social conservatism, and the secularists left in the Pubbie ranks sure seem hell-bent on driving social conservatives out of the party as well.

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