In this morning’s KOKO Puffs edition of DUmmie FUnnies, PJ-Comix chronicles the rebellion of the KOmmies over at Daily Kos over the Head KOmmie’s running of ads for a primary opponent of Gwen Moore’s rolemodel, Cynthia McKinney (No Respect-Loserville). The KOmmies are completely bonkers, and PJ attributes that to McKinney’s refusal to buy ads. However, if memory serves, if an outlet accepts paid political advertising from one source, it must accept paid political advertising from all sources.
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.
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July 21, 2006
July 14, 2006
I wonder if Kimberly-Clark is interested in some slightly-used paper
The Lawgivers-In-Black (LIBs) of the Craps-packed Wisconsin Supreme Court just ruled that the state Constitution once again is worth nothing more than toilet paper, saying in a 4-3 decision written by Loophole Louis Butler (the packee) that no portion of the Constitution or previous SCOW decisions apply to Indian casinos or Governor Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale). To wit, Craps and the Indians can offer whatever games they agree to, including new ones never before contemplated.
Tell me again why the “R”PW didn’t oppose Pat Crooks.
July 13, 2006
Wile E. Graber (suuuper genius) off to the Czech Republic
President Bush best hope that Rick Graber is a better ambassador than party chair. Let’s see what “accomplishments’ Graber has since becoming the “R”PW chair in 1999:
- Didn’t come up with a credible candidate against Nobody’s Senator in 2000.
- Did nothing as Algore and the ‘Rats stole Wisconsin in 2000.
- Abandoned, along with the Thomspon boys, Scott McCallum in 2002, giving us Gov. Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale).
- Put up the bad Biskupic for AG in the same election, which begat Keg Goldschlager.
- After the Pubbies managed to gain control of the state Senate on the tax-freeze message that the “R”PW ran away from in the governor’s race, he led the “R”PW in a 4-year-long smokescreened retreat from that message.
- Abandoned the “surprise” winner of the 2004 Pubbie Senate primary, Tim Michels, allowing Russ el-Slimeroad (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) to run away with the election.
- Did nothing as John “Ketchup Boy” Kerry and the ‘Rats stole Wisconsin in 2004.
- Discouraged everybody except the semi-sane Lorge from running against Nobody’s Senator in 2006.
MediaMole over at FreeRepublic said it best:
This is clearly the “Peter Principle” at work.
Prague will return to Soviet control under his watch. It doesn’t matter that the Soviet Union no longer exists. He managed to get Doyle elected and Kohl re-elected, he can lose the Czech Republic.
June 27, 2006
Honoring the most-underrated governor, Scott McCallum
Dennis York does a great job with “Scott McCallum – Visionary”. To resummarize that in song form (with apologies to Kansas for butchering “Portrait (He Knew)”):
He had a thousand ideas, you might have heard his name
He lived alone with his vision
Not raiding fortunes or fame
Never taxed much to speak of
He was off on another plane
The words that he said were a mystery
His fellow Pubbies said he was insaneBut he knew, he knew more than me or you
No one could accept his view, Oh where was he going toHe was in search of an answer
Dig out from the tax hell we are
He was trying to do it a new way
He was bright as a star
But nobody understood him
“His numbers are not the way”
He lost in a bitter election
That’s why we are suffering todayBut he knew, he knew more than me or you
No one could accept his view, Oh where was he going to
And he tried, but because of that his career died
When he left us the people cried,
Oh where was he going to?He had a different idea
A glimpse of the spending plan
He could see into the future
A true visionary man
“Hold the line on taxes,” he told us
But it died when he went away
If only he could have been with us
No telling what the tax bills might sayBut he knew, he knew more than me or you
No one could accept his view, Oh where was he going to
But he knew, you could tell by the budget he drew
It was totally something new,
Oh where was he going to?
Before anybody asks, I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
Just in case you needed any more reasons to vote for Fred
Standard disclaimer; this was not coordinated with the RealDebate for Senate campaign. The worth of this post is $0.02
Fred reminds us that he has a nose for breaking slime. Well, there’s a LOT of slime to be broken in DC.
So, go vote for Fred in the BBA primary, and remember that both Aaron and Cosmo (Jonah Goldberg’s dog) are too young to be Senators.
June 26, 2006
Who knew that el-Slimeroad lacked integrity?
I’m shocked, SHOCKED to read in today’s Best of the Web that Russ el-Slimeroad (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) has some integrity issues:
That integrity, it should be noted, has its limits. National Review’s >Jim Geraghty catches Feingold in a highly misleading statement. Feingold to Russert:
You know, Tim, today it was announced that a guy named Hassan Dahir Aweys is now the head of the government that has taken over in Mogadishu in Somalia. He is on the State Department’s terrorist list. He is known as an al Qaeda operative, or somebody that is connected with al Qaeda. While we were asleep at the switch, while we were bogged down in Iraq, while we were all focused on Iraq as the be all and end all of our American foreign policy, we are losing the battle to al Qaeda because we’re not paying attention. I asked Ambassador [Henry] Crumpton [the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator] at a hearing the other day, how many people in our federal government are working full time on the problem in Somalia? He said one full-time person.
Geraghty unearthed the transcript of the Feingold-Crumpton exchange, and it turns out Feingold’s account of it is Clintonian–i.e., true, but only literally so:
Feingold: How many people does the State Department have working on Somalia full-time? I just want the full-time figure.
Crumpton: Yes, sir. There is one dedicated Foreign Service officer in Nairobi that looks at Somalia, but there are a multitude of others, not just in the State Department but across the U.S. government, that work the issue.
Well, he is a DemocRAT and a lieberal, so I shouldn’t be at all surprised. Oh wait, I’m not.
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Fred for Senate
Note to the federales; this post is worth exactly $0.02, which by my rough calculations leaves the RealDebate for Senate campaign about $4,900 short of having to register.
Fred has launched the Write In RealDebate campaign, and it seems I’m an unofficial campaign advisor. I do agree with the “vote early” half of the slogan, but I draw the line at “vote often”.
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June 21, 2006
500 WMD munitions found in Iraq since 2003
From the Cybercast News Service, because nobody else has the balls to put it up on the Web, though Fox News Channel did carry this –
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) announced Wednesday the finding of over 500 munitions or weapons of mass destruction, specifically “sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles,” in Iraq.
Reading from unclassified portions of a document developed by the U.S. intelligence community, Santorum said, “Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq’s pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist.”
According to Santorum, “That means in addition to the 500, there are filled and unfilled munitions still believed to exist within the country.”
As I type, I just finished hearing Santorum state this on the Senate floor. Where’s my apology, Russ el-Slimeroad? Where is it, Howie Deanie? How about it, Ketchup Boy? You asshats still want to bleat, “Bush lied!”?
Revisions/extensions (6:22 pm 6/21) – Here is Rick Santorum’s press release, something else you won’t see from the presstitutes:
U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, joined Congressman Peter Hoekstra, (R-MI-2), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, today to make a major announcement regarding the release of newly declassified information that proves the existence of chemical munitions in Iraq since 2003. The information was released by the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, and contained an unclassified summary of analysis conducted by the National Ground Intelligence Center. In March, Senator Santorum began advocating for the release of these documents to the American public.
"The information released today proves that weapons of mass destruction are, in fact, in Iraq," said Senator Santorum. "It is essential for the American people to understand that these weapons are in Iraq. I will continue to advocate for the complete declassification of this report so we can more fully understand the complete WMD picture inside Iraq."
The following are the six key points contained in the unclassified overview:
"¢ Since 2003 Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent.
"¢ Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq’s pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist.
"¢ Pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the black market. Use of these weapons by terrorists or insurgent groups would have implications for Coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside Iraq cannot be ruled out.
"¢ The most likely munitions remaining are sarin and mustard-filled projectiles.
"¢ The purity of the agent inside the munitions depends on many factors, including the manufacturing process, potential additives, and environmental storage conditions. While agents degrade over time, chemical warfare agents remain hazardous and potentially lethal.
"¢ It has been reported in open press that insurgents and Iraqi groups desire to acquire and use chemical weapons.
June 17, 2006
Why the “National Popular Vote” is a bad idea (part 3)
Okay, enough of the nice “non-partisan” arguments below. There are two interlocking reasons why the leftists over at National Popular Vote and various presstitutes are pushing an extra-Constitutional plan to neuter the Electoral College: it would allow the maximizing of Democratic vote fraud, which in turn would allow the moonbattiest of moonbats to successfully run for President. Time to explain.
There are a number of highly-populous Democratic strongholds that historically been home to massive vote fraud that lie in states that are no longer competitive to one party or the other. With the current state-by-state Electoral College scheme, there is little incentive to try to mine the graveyards or have the usual suspects “vote” 5 times in their state of origin because the party that would get that state’s electoral votes would do so with or without that fraud. However, if a majority of the electoral votes were tied to the candidate that wins the national vote, that fraud would become vital for a ‘Rat victory.
I already touched on the “radicalization” of the Presidential candidates that the abandonment of the state-by-state scheme would enable. That would be exacerbated on the left by a guaranteed number of “votes” via fraud. With those “votes” already in the ballot box, the ‘Rats would feel even less pressure to attempt to “moderate” their candidate (as if Al Gore and John F’em Kerry could be called “moderates”).
June 16, 2006
Time to re-enact the Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers, part 2
The following is the text of the letter I sent to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in response to their call for letters on each side of a plan to neuter the Electoral College (reprinted here in case my submission doesn’t make the paper or it is edited; I did send it rather late in the week):
The plan outlined by the group National Popular Vote that seeks to assure the winner of the national popular vote for President victory in the Electoral College vote is intriguing. However, it is deficient in three separate ways, one of which is legally-fatal.
The first deficiency is its most-serious one. By relying on a compact between a number of states, this plan is blatantly un-Constitutional. Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution reads, "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress,… enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State"¦."
Second, it would strip from the campaign any sense of need of a candidate to reach beyond his or her party’s base toward the "undecided" voter. The current state-by-state system, while it does effectively disenfranchise those living in states dominated by one political party, does also force both major-party candidates to battle head-to-head in several hotly-contested "battleground" states, with the attendant moderating effects on both candidates.
Finally, this plan would have the effect of spreading the new phenomenon of post-election challenges nationwide. Imagine the chaos of Florida in 2000 spread out across a dozen states, with each party hunting for the post-election “vote” that would put its candidate over the top.
The 200-word limit is rather stifling when multiple points need to be made.
June 12, 2006
Breaking news – Georgia Thompson GUILTY in Wisconsin’s TravelGate
Just broken on Mark Belling’s show – a federal jury has convicted Georgia Thompson on 2 federal felonies for steering a travel contract to a company run by Doyle campaign contributors because the officers of that company donated to Doyle.
Nice knowing you, Craps.
Revisions/extensions (10:40 pm 6/12) – Part of the instant local presstitute spin is that “(t)he indictment does not allege a pay-to-play scheme in which the contract was awarded in exchange for the donations.” However, Steve Schultze explodes his own spin by pointing out that the indictment stated that “Thompson steered the contract to Adelman ‘to cause political advantage for her supervisors’ and to bolster her job security.” With the jury returning guilty verdicts on all counts in that indictment, that is now a matter of fact. There are but 2 people above Thompson in her organizational chart that stood to gain a “political advantage” – Marc Marotta (now Doyle’s campaign chair) and Jim Doyle himself.
A question for the Doylies out there; just why did Georgia Thompson feel it necessary to illegally inflate Adelman Travel’s scores to cause a political advantage for her supervisors to keep her job? She didn’t feel it necessary to conduct illegal acts for either political advantage for her supervisors or job security when Scott McCallum was governor.
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June 9, 2006
It’s time to play bingo, ‘Rat style
James has the rules. Just make sure you bring a laptop because the parking lot of the DPW convention will almost certainly be full of state- and municipal-owned cars, and those who wait until getting back home to send in their cards will be at a distinct disadvantage.
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May 26, 2006
Anti-Freeze Sublimation, MPS Edition
‘Tis a curious headline the Journtinel put on their story of the MPS budget passed by the board yesterday (“MPS keeps reins tight”). Let’s explore the numbers:
– Enrollment is forecast to be down 2.8% from this year
– The number of teachers is cut 2%
– Total spending is only cut 0.9%
And the killer for property owners in the city of Milwaukee:
– The property tax levy is expected to go up 3%
Sure is looking like the suckers in Milwaukee who voted for Craps in 2002 and will likely vote for him again in 2006 don’t mind being lied to.
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Senate passes “Amnesty first, border enforcement never”
I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that the Senate passed their version of the immigration “reform” bill 62-36. One of the public parts of the bill, which (thankfully) still has to go through a conference committee with Jim Sensenbrenner, would authorize construction of 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers.
However, Michelle Malkin has the details on how that means nothing. It seems that Arlen Specter (tell me again why the RNC and President Bush supported him in the 2004 primary) snuck in a provision that Mexico be consulted before any new barriers are built.
As for the rest of the trash that the Senate passed, let’s see:
- Guest-worker program – 200,000 per year with an initial 3-year visa. That visa can be renewed once, and once that “guest” is here for 4 years, they leap to the head of the citizenship line.
- Amnesty for the invaders already here –
- Those here 5 or more years as well as those working on farms for at least 863 hours in 2004-2005 (or willing and able to lie) leap to the head of the citizenship line without going back to where they came from and become citizens in 6 years after paying a modest fine
- Those here between 2 and 5 years (or those not willing and able to lie enough to qualify for the 5-year rule) get citizenship 13 or so years after sneaking out across the border and coming back through a port of entry.
- Those here less than 2 years, not working on a farm, and too stupid/lazy to lie allegedly get deported.
All in all, if anything resembling this makes it out of conference committee, it’s over.
May 24, 2006
Out-of-control Congress protecting the most-corrupt of their own
It really shouldn’t be much of a surprise that the RepubicRAT half of the Party In Government is backing ethically-challenged Louisiana DemocRAT Representative William Jefferson in his battle to remain in office and free of corruption charges despite videotape evidence that he accepted a $100,000 bribe and convictions of his associates on charges of bribing him, going so far as to threaten a legal challenge to a search warrant execution on Jefferson’s Congressional office. After all, Congress exempts its members from just about every law they saddle the rest of America with.
Craps tax anti-freeze-year 2 begins to sublimate again
Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale), on his wholesale rewriting of the tax freeze put into the budget by Legislative Republicans in July 2005 (a rewrite that specifically exempted unelected taxing authorities like technical college districts), as quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – “‘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’ in December 2006.”
The Milwaukee Area Technical College proposed 2006 tax levy increase, after a 6.3% levy increase in 2005 – 5% (or $6.3 million, with a minimum of $2.2 million and potentially as much as $4.4 million going to increased compensation for the already-overpaid teachers), which the Journtinel helpfully points out is well above the rate of inflation.
Tell me again why every single elected DemocRAT, and the RepublicRATs and RINOs in my Rogues Galleries believe that it isn’t necessary to restrain the taxing authority of unelected taxing bodies?
May 12, 2006
Liberals take their war against conservatives to the next level
(H/T – OpinionJournal’s Best of the Web)
The Times (of London) columnist Mick Jones reports the saga of one Edward Atkinson…
It is bad enough that you can be refused medical treatment on the NHS for eating, drinking or smoking too much. Now it seems that you can be denied an operation for protesting too much in support of your religious or political beliefs.
Edward Atkinson, a 75-year-old anti-abortion activist, was jailed recently for 28 days for sending photographs of aborted foetuses to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. That draconian sentence was not deemed punishment enough: the hospital has banned Mr Atkinson from receiving the hip replacement operation he was expecting.
Just as a reminder, Queen Elizabeth Hospital is owned and operated by the British government.
A gas question for out-staters, especially liberal out-staters
What is wrong with this picture?
- Regular unleaded gasoline (HU) futures for June delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange as of 1 pm CDT – $2.1950/gallon
- Reformulated unleaded gasoline (RBOB) futures for June delivery on NYMEX as of 1 pm CDT (not quite the same blend as is required in southeast Wisconsin, but it is more plentiful than the special Milwaukee/Chicago blend) – $2.4450/gallon
- Ethanol futures for June delivery on the Chicago Board of Trade as of 1 pm CDT – $2.810/gallon (it is important to note that ethanol, where it is required, is added at the terminal and is not part of either of the blends of gasoline traded on NYMEX)
- Average pump price of regular unleaded gas in Madison (no reformulated or ethanol requirement) from MadisonGasPrices.com as of 1:30 pm CDT – $2.891/gallon
- Average pump price of regular unleaded gas in Milwaukee (both reformulated and 10% ethanol requirements) from MilwaukeeGasPrices.com as of 1:30 pm CDT – $2.910/gallon
A couple of hints for you who have had a public-school “education”:
- The trading-price premium for reformulated gasoline over regular gasoline – $0.2500/gallon
- The effective trading-price premium for ethanol-laced reformulated gasoline mandated in southeast Wisconsin ($2.4896/gallon at 90% RBOB, 10% ethanol) over non-ethanol-laced regular gas available elsewhere in the state – $0.2946/gallon (side note for those stuck on corn-a-hole; mandating 10% ethanol on regular gas would add $0.0696/gallon to its effective trading price, making that $2.2565/gallon)
- The pump-price premium for the ethanol-laced reformulated gasoline sold in Milwaukee over (mostly) non-ethanol-laced regular gasoline sold in Madison – $0.019/gallon
That might be something you want to ask Gov. Jim Doyle about. Back in 2000, when he was Attorney General, his repsonse to a similar inflation of reformulated gasoline prices was to threaten to sue any member of Big Oil that didn’t spread the pain across the entire state. You might also want to ask current AG Peg Lautenschlager about this. It sure looks like she’s continuing the Doyle policies.
Revisions/extensions (5:30 pm 5/12) – If Tommy Thompson jumps into the governor’s race, you might want to ask Mr. “Stick it to ’em” about this too. While Thompson did try (and fail) to get southeast Wisconsin out of the RFG mandate while he was still in Madison, he didn’t exactly try to dissuade Craps from his threats to persecute Big Oil if they didn’t spread the pain.
Current (1:05 pm 5/12/2006) Thompson ’06 plans odds
3-2 – Tommy jumps into the governor’s race to push Mark Green out
3-2 – Tommy doesn’t appear on any ballot
4-1 – Tommy takes on Nobody’s Senator, Herb Kohl
If Tommy announces his decision Sunday like the Journal Sentinel is reporting he likely will (even-money odds on that), look for it to be to enter the governor’s race. If he does, I’ll bet that 3/4ths of the original Green Team will abandon Mark Green and call him “too conservative” (remember, they already did that to Scott Walker successfully).
For the record, I do not want Tommy anywhere near the governor’s section of the ballot. He’s a great campaigner, and he did have some decent ideas (W2, School Choice), but he’s a tax-and-spender first, last and always. Wisconsin doesn’t need one of those, especially now.
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May 8, 2006
The veil on Feingold’s “Retreat and Defeat” strategy is lifting
From an AP piece on Russ el-Slimeroad’s (Moonbat-Al Qaeda) urging his fellow ‘Rats to strengthen their attacks on President Bush:
“I believe the situation would probably get better” if U.S. troops left, he said. “The lesson of insurgency is when the occupying power leaves, it tends to lessen, rather than increase, the level of violence.”
Tell that to the Cambodians killed by Pol Pot after he gained power. Tell that to the Cubans still suffering under Fidel Castro. Tell that to the Vietnamese in the southern part of the country. Heck, tell that to the various ethnic groups in the Balkans. See what they’ll tell you about that.
When the insurgency is driven by the desire to kill everyone not 110% like them, the level of violence doesn’t drop when the US cuts and runs. It doesn’t drop even the moment the insurgents gain power. Indeed, it actually increases after the insurgents gain power as they are free to fully-implement their mass-murderous desires. Only after the bulk of the people they want to kill are dead does the level of violence drop, and then it doesn’t actually stop until after the insurgents are replaced by a group not bent on total revenge.
May 5, 2006
As long as I’m doing galleries,…
…I may as well let you know about the asshats who decided that the same profit level that ExxonMobil is getting ripped to shreds over must continue to be mandated to gas-station owners (which includes ExxonMobil):
Roger Breske
Russ Decker
Mike Ellis
Jon Erpenbach
Scott Fitzgerald
Dave Hansen
Sheila Harsdorf
Bob Jauch
Dan Kapanke
Julie Lassa
Joe Leibham
Mark Miller
Luther Olsen
Jeff Plale (who has turned into my biggest disappointment)
Fred Risser
Judy Robson
Cathy Stepp
Lena Taylor
Bob Wirch
If you see any of these asshats complaining about either high gas prices or “excessive” profits, shove their votes to continue to mandate a 9.18% profit for gas stations in their faces and serve them a tall, frosty glass of STFU.
R.I.P. Wisconsin Taxpayer Relief (2002-2006)
- Born 2002 to then-Gov. Scott McCallum, who proposed the end to state aid to localities, with a freeze on local taxes, as a solution to the structural deficits he inherited from Tommy Thompson.
- Killed 2002 by Assemby Pubbies who wanted to continue the expensive fund transfers.
- Resurrected 2002 by the voters, who voted in a Pubbie majority in the Senate and extended the Pubbie majority in the Assemby by electing tax-freeze candidates like Mark Honadel (who won in a district dominated by the ‘Rats the last 80 years). Renamed TABOR.
- Buried by then-Senate Majority “Leader” Mary Panzer in 2004. Panzer promptly got buried by her constituents by a late entry by Glenn Grothman, who campaigned on TABOR.
- TABOR killed again by the traitorous election of Sgt. Dale Schultz (I know nassink-No Talk Radio Here) as Senate Majority “Leader” in 2005.
- Various tax-freeze languages in the state budget killed by Gov. Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) 2003-2005.
- Re-resurrected as a weakened WTPA in 2006 by Grothman (who only took a full year to come up with something).
- Local revenue limits killed by the Assembly 2006. A Swiss-cheese state-only version barely survived the Assembly, faces certain death in the Senate.
- State-only limits killed by the Senate 2006.
Time to start job- and house-hunting out of state.
Revisions/extensions – The Senate made the death of Wisconsin Taxpayer Relief official yesterday. The whole lot of them are asshats. I hope to be out of this tax hell by the end of the year.
Rogues Gallery, the Senate version
As expected, the Wisconsin State Senate killed what was left of the Taxpayers Protection Amendment. NONE of them are blameless, as every Senator that was around (Spencer Coggs took a powder) ultimately voted to screw the taxpayers. That vote was sandwiched between the defeat of an attempt to slightly strengthen the TRA that came out of the Assembly by adding most segergated funds and the defeat of the original Grothman-written TPA. So, without further adieu, let’s start the pics:
The asshats who decided to just give up:
Alberta Darling
Glenn Grothman
Ted Kanavas (up for re-election this year)
Neal Kedzie (up for re-election this year)
Mary Lazich
Joe Leibham (up for re-election this year)
Tom Reynolds (up for re-election this year)
Dale Schultz (up for re-election this year)
Cathy Stepp (the seat is up this year, but she’s leaving the Senate)
Dave Zien (up for re-election this year)
The RINOs who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for local limits:
Mike Ellis (up for re-election this year)
Alan Lasee (up for re-election this year)
A clueless idiot who has no idea how to vote on any given issue (case in point, he voted for the state-and-local TPA but against strengthening the state-only TPA):
Scott Fitzgerald (Chris, I think I hear his seat calling you; he is up for re-election this year)
Finally, the RepubicRATs who think, like every single DemocRAT, that taxes still are too low in Wisconsin:
Ronald Brown (up for re-election this year)
Robert Cowles
Sheila Harsdorf
Dan Kapanke
Luther Olsen
Carol Roessler
Just as a friendly reminder, for those of you living in an “odd” Senate district, you can start circulating your nomination papers to enter a primary June 1. They have to be back to the State Elections Board, along with some other paperwork (checklist here), by 5 pm July 11th. You only need 400-800 signatures.
For the “Republican” Party of Wisconsin, I have a challenge for you. Either support primary opponents of the career politicians above and in my original Rogues Gallery who actually supports the “R”PW platform, or adopt the DPW tax-and-spend socialistic economic platform at your convention. Don’t lie to us conservatives any longer.
May 2, 2006
Just one of the many reasons Dennis York is Blogger of the Year
He whacks Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) but good with the Exxon tiger. Random quote from the piece – “According to Wisconsin Elections Board records, Doyle raised a total of $1.2 million from contributors between July 1 and December 31st of 2005, while spending only $421,000 to raise that money. Doyle’s $800,000 profit amounts to a 200% profit over those six months.”
Tucked at the end of the piece is something that is interesting, but got ignored by the Milwaukee/Madistan presstitutes. The Appleton Post-Crescent reports that Doyle has been using state planes for campaigning without reimbursing the state for the cost. The paper cites a 11/17/2003 trip to Milwaukee during which Doyle appeared at a campaign forum for then-Senator and Presidential candidate John Edwards (D-North Carolina). The cost of the flight; $1,500. The amount the Doyle campaign reimbursed the state; $0.00 as Doyle flack Dan Leistikow called the Edwards event “absolutely” a public event, even though it was run by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Say, does anybody remember Doyle making hay out of McCallum’s use of the state airplane fleet? I sure do.
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May 1, 2006
Don’t say I didn’t warn the guv
I might not be a professional political consultant, but waving off the little photo-op and waste of state Internet resources on a meaningless online petition really should have been a no-brainer. Oh well, time to deconstruct it, with some help from JSOnline’s Daywatch because I was a bit busy counter-protesting (side note-PSP ROCKS!!):
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle today called on federal lawmakers to cap oil company profits, return “excessive” oil profits to Americans and repeal $10 billion in tax breaks to oil companies, saying the moves would lower gas prices for struggling Wisconsin families.
Craps admit it; he’s a socialist. Of course, I knew it all along.
Moving to the “return” of “excessive” oil profits, how exactly is that going to happen? There’s no way of knowing how many miles somebody drove, even with intrusive vehicle emission inspections. Even if that could be determined, there’s no way that Craps and his merry band of ‘Rats would allow a proportionate share to be “returned” to owners of gas-guzzling SUVs. Indeed, the ‘Rat proposals for a windfall profits tax (already whacked by the pro, Brian Fraley) out there have the “excessive” oil profits going not to drivers, but to more gubmint spending.
Similarily, removing tax breaks would only further encourage the abandonment of American oil wells and foreign wells owned by the oil companies themselves in favor of buying oil from the likes of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Of course, since those revenues go in large part to enemies of the United States, the ‘Rats seem to be perfectly fine with that.
Doyle also announced a joint Web site with the state of Michigan,… (website removed, but it is a wisconsin.gov site) and urged residents of both states to sign an online petition urging President Bush and Congress to make the changes.
Craps just can’t stop spending our money on wasteful and worthless gestures. If Craps and Jennifer Granholm the Canuck want to lobby the feds, let them do it with their campaigns’ money, not the state treasuries.
“We are struggling here in Wisconsin as are people all over the country,” Doyle said at a news conference outside a BP service station in Brookfield where regular unleaded fuel was selling for $2.89 a gallon — about 62 cents higher than a year ago….
I was so hoping that Craps would show up in front of one of the 4 Mobil stations in Brookfield; I would have had to go out and get a video capture card just so I can add some visual to this. Let’s see; take away the 9.18% markup from the daily average terminal price mandated by the state at the pump mandated by the state (more on that in a bit), and that drops the price to $2.65/gallon. Take away the 3% markup mandated by the state at the terminal from that and the price falls to $2.57/gallon. Take away the $0.31/gallon in taxes levied by the state and the price falls to $2.26/gallon. I know, the stations and terminals do have to have some markup to stay in business, but that’s 63 cents in state-mandated costs, which is more than the increase over last year’s price.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that, by schlepping the 135 miles round-trip to Brookfield instead of finding a gas station near either the governor’s mansion or the Capitol building, he enriched the very oil companies he’s fighting against. Of course, knowing Craps, he probably had the tank topped off at Citgo so the money goes to his soulmate in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
…Doyle said he did not know at what dollar amount or percentage increase oil profits should be capped, saying he would leave that to Congress to sort out.
“Let them make decent profits,” Doyle said.
Time to bring back that 9.18% state-mandated markup to the debate. If a profit margin that starts with something less than a “9.” isn’t good enough for a gas station, it stands to reason that a profit margin that starts with a “9.” isn’t too good for ExxonMobil and company.
He also did not stake out a position on how excess oil profits should be returned to citizens.
I guess that if he did stake out a position, he would sound as stupid as his fellow ‘Rats, who would “return” the “excess” oil profits in the form of gubmint health care.
Doyle said he did not believe lowering Wisconsin’s gas tax would lower gas prices because he believed oil companies would raise prices to offset the reduced tax.
Typical socialistic lieberal – tax cut bad, tax hike good. I call bullshat part 1: Just who does Craps think pays those taxes? Hint; it isn’t ExxonMobil/BP/et al.
I call bullshat part 2: Back during the Algore Memorial Gas crisis of 2000, Illinois suspended collecting sales tax on gasoline sold there. Gas was that much cheaper on the other side of the toll booths.
He said he supports eliminating the state’s minimum gas markup but said he also doubted such a repeal would ease gas prices.
If he thought that cutting ExxonMobil’s/BP’s/et al’s profit margins would drive down prices, why won’t eliminating the minimum markup law?
Doyle accused oil companies of intentionally — and unpatriotically — raising prices to record levels after natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina “because they could.”
As an economist, Craps makes a bad trial lawyer. Oil and gasoline prices (as well as natural gas prices) are driven not by the oil companies, but by traders acting on market forces, both real and perceived. Since the petroleum markets operate at tight-supply/high-demand extreme edge of the market curve thanks to OPEC’s quota system, growing global demand, and the unwillingness of both the DemocRATs and RepubicRATs (as well as Sensenbrenner) to allow proper exploitation of American oil reserves through refusal of new drilling rights, the 26-year-and-growing moratorium on new refineries, and umpteen blends of Algore Memorial Gas, any disruption whether real or preceived has a magnified effect.
Of course, because we’re talking about a ‘Rat, the presstitutes will more than gladly try to ignore these holes. Heck, the Journtinel sure did. Only one small problem; that monopoly is gone, and the herd of sheeple who blindly swallow the ‘Rat/Presstitute line is shrinking.
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