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 June 8th, 2009

Oh so close

by @ 15:26. Filed under Politics - National.

A couple months ago, Shoebox had a poll up on when Rasmussen’s Presidential Approval Index (the percentage of those who strongly approve less the percentage of those who strongly disapprove in Rasmussen’s 3-day-rolling-average daily Presidential tracking poll) would go negative. On June 5, which reflects June 2, June 3, and June 4, it was zero, with 34% strongly approving and 34% strongly disapproving. Meanwhile, the overall approval was 54%, tied for second-lowest (right behind the June 6 results) and overall disapproval was 46%, tied for second-highest (again, right behind the June 6 results).

Roll bloat – local edition

by @ 14:46. Filed under The Blog.

I should’ve done this before I went on vacation, but I ran out of time. Please welcome Dave_WI and Dave’s Thoughts to the roll of bloat.

Monday Hot Read – Charlie Sykes’ “So What Are They Thinking?”

by @ 7:13. Filed under Politics - Wisconsin.

Charlie Sykes asks what Doyle and the Democratic Legislature are thinking with the Daughter-of-Necrobudget (© Kevin Binversie) that came out of the Joint Finance Committee on mostly party-line 12-4 votes:

Here’s the most interesting political question of the year: why do Jim Doyle and the Democrats think they can get away with this budget?

The package rolling toward final approval is a grotesque fiscal, economic and political monster that not even a mother could love. Besides a few notable payoffs to favored special interests like the trial lawyers and the teachers union, it is a collection of uglies: massive tax and fee increases during a recession; slashes in law enforcement while releasing hundreds of felons from prison; gutting welfare reform; and tens of millions of dollars of pork, all cooked up behind closed doors and voted on in the middle of the night….

There is, in short, no lip stick glossy enough for this pig. So what could Doyle be thinking here?

Charlie, after listing a few of the horrid things in the Daughter-of-Necrobudget that I didn’t include in the excerpt, has a few possible answers to the question. The simple answer is, because they can.

One of the longer answers that Charlie didn’t have time to mention is the “overload” theory. Even if the Democrats get ousted in 2010 (or sooner; there are recall efforts being organized against both Doyle and Sen. Jim Sullivan of Wauwatosa), they figure that, with so much garbage being tossed up, there’s no way the Republicans will be able to mop everything up and restore the pre-bloated size of government.

Winding down

by @ 6:51. Filed under The Blog.

Jib once said that once blogging became not fun, it was time to stop. I’m rapidly approaching the point where blogging is no longer fun.

I’ve still got a few things left to say, but right now, they’re at best half-formed thoughts. Once (or if) I get them out, I don’t know what the future holds for me.

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