Tag: Gov. Scott Walker
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Let’s just build a wall around Wisconsin
Since the building of really big walls for the good of the nation is now a popular idea among some Americans, especially Republican presidential candidates and a former Republican presidential candidate, Wisconsin Republicans now governing the state should consider building a wall around the state’s borders. Such a wall would keep the wrong people out and […]
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Rumple Oxbridge: “In Ignorance We Cannot Trust”
By Rumple Oxbridge (imaginary rhymer-in-residence) What Gov. Walker learned, at last, is this: ignorance is only bliss if ignorance is all there is — “In God We Trust” will soon go bust if you think God thinks for us. [For the NY Times’ Frank Bruni column, 800 words of prose on the relationship between Gov. Walker, Republican […]
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Gov. Scott Walker bows out of presidential race
If it’s in the NY Times it must be true: Gov. Scott Walker is throwing in the towel. Perhaps now he’ll return to Wisconsin where his local popularity is plummeting.
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“Wisconsin is Open for Business” Lobbyists or Welcome to North Texas
(Photo by By Jonathan McIntosh [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons) By John Kaufman We in Wisconsin owe a great debt of gratitude to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency without which we would likely be facing the prospect of a huge new iron ore mine in the lovely, hilly, wetland-blessed Penokee Hills and having the […]
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(Speaking of Witch Hunts . . . ) Candidate Mary Burke Endures the Trial of the Trail
Though the real news was that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke had just been endorsed by the largest police union in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s online headline said, “Mary Burke stumbles when asked to define plagiarism”. As if the shock of the question caused her to lose her balance, thus betraying her pact with […]
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Wisconsin’s Rural Schools Must Now Go Begging
Today voters in 26 Wisconsin rural school districts are being asked to do what the State of Wisconsin won’t do: fully fund public education. Gov. Walker cut aid to school districts and reduced the raising of taxes while telling the school districts to find more money by giving less salary and benefits to teachers. Well, despite […]
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Gov. Walker’s Foreign Policy
Thanks to the Journal Sentinel’s Tom Kertscher for bringing a recent interview with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to light for all of us who do not regularly read (or do not read at all) the Washington Examiner. In this “exclusive interview” titled “Gov. Scott Walker’s limited government pragmatism”, we learn that Gov. Walker is fond […]
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Weekend Rebuttal: “Anti-Walker” or Pro-Truth?
In his latest Milwaukee Journal Sentinel column, “The Anti-Walker crowd needs to keep looking”, Christian Schneider gamely tries to defend Gov. Walker from “myopic Democrats” after the release this past week of many thousands of emails, some which seem to connect Walker (as objective reporters at the Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin State Journal have reported) to knowledge of a secret […]
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Gov. Walker as Captain Ahab
The Wisconsin conservative spin machine (call it the whitewashing machine) has been rotating wildly today, making itself dizzier than normal, after yesterday’s release of some damaging email records that seem to confirm that Walker, as Milwaukee County Executive, had at least some knowledge of a secret email system that allowed secret and illegal communication between his county office and his […]
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Governors in Trouble: Christie, Walker and now Kasich
Republican governors have not been doing well lately, what with Christie’s Bridgegate, Gov. Walker’s campaign e-mail revelations, and now Ohio Gov. John Kasich having to embarrassingly change his mind on fracking after Ohio’s DNR was caught in a plan to undermine Ohio’s “eco-left” environmental groups. More on the Walker e-mails tomorrow.
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Cesar Chavez, a Living Wage and Bipartisan Tax/Debt Pandering
(By USGov-DOL (USGov-DOL) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) Two apparently radical, left-wing proposals were discussed in Madison last week, one of which is supported, sort of, by our Republican governor and one which is opposed by Milwaukee County’s Democratic County Executive. And what Democratic candidate Mary Burke says she supports are right-wing budget ideas of prioritizing paying down debt and giving much of […]
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Weekend Rebuttal: Gov. Walker’s Tax Surplus Plan is a Gift to the Suburbs
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has a plan for our nearly billion dollar tax surplus: give everyone in the state, even the wealthy, a quite modest tax cut. Which means, in real terms, that the richest in the state, the top 20%, will receive the largest percentage of the tax cut. This will no doubt help the suburbs […]
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The ongoing irony of Wisconsin’s open-pit iron mine law
Speaking of iron mines and irony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board today published an editorial claiming, yet again, that there is nothing wrong with GTAC’s proposed iron strip mine in the Penokee Hills of Wisconsin and the Republican’s iron mining bill that a little “tweaking” won’t fix. After noting that, as expected, the feds will not honor the iron mine bill’s […]
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A Cheesehead President? New poll says not likely
According to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll, former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is twice as likely as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to be chosen by Republicans and independents who lean Republican to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016. Palin received the support of 8% of those polled and Walker got 4%. Walker is probably Unintimidated […]
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