Yes, the media and the Obamanauts (but, of course, I repeat myself) will laugh this off, but what would make the leader of the free world (well, free for now, on paper at least) think that use of the word “sexy” as an adjective to describe anything, under any [...]
After four back-to-back weekends out of town, I’ll tell you honestly that “general housekeeping” around the primary homestead has taken a bit of a “back seat” around my place in recent days. On my way out the door this morning, hustling to get my daughter to school on time after [...]
It’s a good thing my grandfather’s already deceased, because this photo probably would have killed him.
[...]Veteran Madison TV news bloodhound, WKOW’s Tony Galli called out Milwaukee-area state legislator Tim Carpenter at his “Inside Scoop” blog earlier in the week.
Like many of us, it seems Carpenter must be running short on free time. According to Galli, he recently proceeded to sign “oodles” of wreath-adorned [...]
Choices, choices. This Saturday, November 14, you can make plans to attend CRG’s Veto Super Rally at the Italian Community Center from 1-3 P.M.
Or, if you’re in the mood for something completely different, you can join members of the Coalition to Stop the Takeover of MPS in picketing [...]
I know, I know. There are many issues of substance which we should all be focusing on.
But sometimes, you just need a distraction. Especially one that celebrates the best of America.
Just letting you know, in case you’re confused. The Wright Middle School you’ll be visiting in Madison tomorrow is NOT named after your mentor, friend, and 20+ year pastor Jeremiah Wright. I just thought someone should let you know.
While we’re on the topic of Reverend Wright… he’s the gift [...]
Well, unless of course you’re the guy who screens YouTube uploads looking for inappropriate content. Seriously, that job would ROCK, wouldn’t it?
Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly sits down with the ladies of ABC’s “The View.” As you might expect, hilarity ensues.
No word on why Barbara Walters opted not to [...]
If what Ms. Pelosi has brought forth to the American public TODAY is the “real” health care “reform” bill, then what, exactly, is this “thing” we’ve been talking about for the past 6 months? What, exactly, is this “thing” that was supposed to have been rammed through prior to the [...]
Nope, just another Democrat lie. It’s about having cradle-to-grave control over you, perpetual entitlements guaranteeing themselves never-ending power. The AP reports:
“The nation’s medical costs will keep spiraling upward even faster than they are now under Democratic legislation pending in the House, a report from government economic experts [...]
Well, did you? $787 Billion well spent, and entirely owned by your Democrat overlords.
And Christina Romer will be thrown under the bus in 5, 4, 3, 2…
“A top White House economist says spending from the $787 billion economic stimulus has already had its biggest impact on economic [...]
But why do you make this assertion, Mr. Thin-Skinned President? Because Fox News is the lone opposition voice to your in-over-your-heads administration?
How are you “handling the situation in Afghanistan,” exactly, Mr. Thin-Skinned President? Do elaborate.
[...]AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, GM, Chrysler, GMAC… what do they all have in common?
They’ll all soon have the Obama administration slashing the earnings of their top executives by pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, according to a Reuters report.
“Cash payouts,” says Reuters. Interesting. We used to call them [...]
Remember when ACORN’s defenders, including “Chief Organizer” Bertha Lewis herself, as well as a host of media pundits and “real news” entities, insisted that amateur investigative filmmakers James O’Keefe and Hanna Giles had been “thrown out” – exact quotation – “shown the door” at ACORN’s Philadelphia office after the prospect [...]
Patrick J. Buchanan opines on the perceived “radicalization” of moderate Americans, writing in a column at WorldNetDaily:
“Yet, we had seen these folks before. They were Perotistas in 1992, opposed NAFTA in 1993 and blocked the Bush-Kennedy McCain amnesty in 2007.
In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith [...]
I would crack a joke about the “prestige media’s” obsession with bright and shiny objects, but in this case… they were ridiculously obsessed with an actual bright and shiny object. The PRC’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reveals:
“In a week during which the Dow Jones surged over the [...]
The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus weighs in on the Obama Administration’s declared war on Fox News Channel at the paper’s “PostPartisan” blog:
“The Obama administration’s war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman’s advice and [...]
The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus weighs in on the Obama Administration’s declared war on Fox News Channel at the paper’s “PostPartisan” blog:
“The Obama administration’s war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman’s advice and [...]
Earlier this week, we filled you in on the surprising fact that Milwaukee County’s cost of fringe benefits represented 74.35% of the total cost of county wages paid in 2008. In budget year 2009, that number is projected to have increased another 8-10%.
I received an e-mail yesterday from County [...]
I know the folks at Friends of Hoyt Park, who have been working hard for the past three years or so to secure private funding to help bring swimming back to Wauwatosa’s Hoyt Park are hoping this little nugget in Scott Walker’s proposed 2010 county budget is allowed [...]
Apparently sending out letters to union members, urging them to lean on specific members of the Milwaukee County Board to “see things their way” didn’t work out the way AFSCME District Council 48 hoped it would.
In a surprising 11-6 vote late this morning, the board shot down its [...]
…for winning the “Best in the Nation” Gold Medal award from the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration and the National Recreation and Park Association, just announced at their annual Congress & Exposition being held in Salt Lake City, UT.
[...]Secretary of Labor under William Jefferson Clinton and current adviser to The Obama, Robert Reich outlines the ideal solutions for “health care reform” in a speech delivered at Cal-Berkeley (go figure) on September 26, 2007.
Some enterprising journalist should ask Mr. Reich the following question:
“When you utter the courageous words [...]
Thursday afternoon, an unprecedented pick-up game took place on a converted tennis court on the White House lawn, closed to the press, at which President Obama hooped it up with bevy of cabinet secretaries (including Tim Geithner, Arne Duncan and Ken Salazar) and 13 members of [...]
British author James Delingpole, whose Welcome to Obamaland is proving to be a remarkably visionary work, opined on “global warming” in his book:
“Global warming is the latest fashionable variation on original sin. Now that so many fewer people, in the West at any rate, take traditional religion seriously [...]
Former Vice President and “climate change” profiteer Al Gore swoops in to Madison today, undoubtedly weaving his special blend of liberal guilt, hypocrisy, and junk science into his keynote speech to a group of environmental journalists meeting in the Capitol City. Madison could not be more thrilled.
Oh, and Barack Hussein [...]
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[...]The worst part of this for me, personally, was when we watched this for the first time a few minutes ago, and my 6-year-old daughter started humming along. It’s apparently based on a Miley Cyrus song. Great.
Screw you, CNN.
(h/t: Glenn Frankovis)
[...]It’s official. Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama was sent on a mission by God. So say Catholic Bishops from Africa on a visit to the Vatican:
“VATICAN CITY (AP) – African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms—putting them very much [...]
“Here, put these lab coats on. They’ll make you look like doctors. No one in a lab coat would allow themselves to be used as a shill in a manipulative attempt to dupe the American people, right?”
All kidding aside, we have [...]
On her WIBA-AM radio program in Madison this afternoon, host Vicki McKenna had an outstanding exchange with The Heritage Foundation’s Brian Darling.
In the discussion, which you can hear via podcast at this link (courtesy of WIBA, the segment starts at about 18:30), Darling speculates that ObamaCare health care “reform” [...]
The next time some predictable propaganda-spewer from Wisconsin’s left-wing echo chamber attempts to convince you that state residents are “overwhelmingly in favor” of President Obama’s (non-existent) Health Care Reform legislation, offer them a one-word response.
According to the results of a poll, released today, conducted in partnership between [...]
From the passenger seat of my car a few weeks ago, conservative blogger, and author of the recently published book Culture of Corruption Michelle Malkin commented on ACORN in a discussion between my friends and fellow bloggers Glenn Frankovis, Roland Melnick, and myself. Malkin, referring to the numerous “fronts” and [...]
He went to Denmark, to double-down,
To bring the games to his adopted town.
“The One,” with two other “Big O’s” in tow,
How could the IOC ever say no?
Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmm.
They were sent to make the city’s plea,
as a personal favor to their [...]
In BadgerBlogger.com’s sit-down with Milwaukee County Executive and candidate for governor Scott Walker recently, Walker shared an interesting revelation.
In the wake of a costly county government “pension scandal” which many alleged reeked of cronyism, Walker’s initial idea of mounting a campaign for county executive came from pundit, radio host, and [...]
Obama the candidate vs. Obama the “leader.”
General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, from an interview with CBS’ David Martin which aired on last night’s “60 Minutes“:
“Asked how often he talks to the president, McChrystal said, “I’ve talked to the president since I’ve been [...]
Someone’s going to have to ’splain this one to me.
In a posting at his Milwaukee County First blog, and cross-posted at his personal blog, Milwaukee county employee and union representative Chris “capper” Liebenthal decries the use of a Milwaukee County Parks logo on an Americans for Prosperity [...]
I’ve been watching a little spirited online debate taking place between the blogger behind ScottForGov.com and Milwaukee county employee and union representative Chris “capper” Liebenthal.
Liebenthal chairs a recently-created 501(c)4 organization, Milwaukee County First, a group which describes itself in promotional literature as “a non-partisan public advocacy corporation.”
Their [...]
A flagrant act of journalism from Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown.
Senator John Ensign (R-NV) pressed Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold for details on what, potentially, might happen to a citizen of the United States, should they elect not to purchase health insurance, and subsequently choose not [...]
In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, Libyan President Muammar al-Qadhafi stopped just short of asking Obama to prom. As reported at The Hill:
“You are the beginning of a change,” the Libyan leader said of the U.S. president. “But as far as I’m concerned, Obama is [...]
Oh, wait.
Becky Kleefisch turns her Kodak Zx1 loose on a few “taxpayer protest rally” attendees last Saturday at Milwaukee’s Lakefront.
(h/t: Charlie Sykes)
[...]WisPolitics.com cites sources close to U.S. Congressman Ron Kind, D-LaCrosse, reporting that Kind will announce later today that he’ll take a pass on the race for Wisconsin governor.
[...]The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel’s token conservative, Patrick McIlheran, who is just slightly less gracious and charming in person than Ms. Michelle Malkin herself, captures the spirit of last Saturday’s taxpayer protest rally at Milwaukee’s Veterans Park in his twice-weekly column at the paper’s website.
Oh, and I am told, they [...]
BadgerBlogger.com is scheduled to interview current Milwaukee County Executive and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker later this week, and we’d like BadgerBlogger readers to feel like they’ve got a seat at the table.
Use this thread to submit questions you’d ask candidate Walker if you had the opportunity, and we’ll consider [...]
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Most hideous garment ever worn to a major award show? Definitely in the “Top 5.”
Congratulations to Victoria Rowell. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen your name in print.
[...]Ah, the price you pay for getting up early on a Saturday.
I don’t know if anyone else caught this, but it happened in the first hour of ABC’s “Good Morning America” earlier today. In a story about profiteering health insurance companies denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions, ABC News [...]
From an e-mail circulated today by ACORN CEO and “Chief Organizer” Bertha Lewis, undoubtedly to anyone who’s ever visited an Organizing for America or DNC-sponsored website:
“We’re used to attacks from Fox News and the right wing. They will stop at nothing — certainly not the truth — to take [...]
Occasionally, I watch CNN’s “The Situation Room,” and find myself wondering how host Wolf Blitzer could have possibly gotten this far in life. Well, rest assured, it’s not thanks to his acute knowledge on a broad variety of topics. In fact, this guy makes Charles Gibson look like [...]
From a Twitter post earlier this evening, hastily released in poor judgment, and later removed by ABC News reporter Terry Moran:
Barack Obama referred to Kanye West in an interview Monday as a “jackass” for his boneheaded (and many allege, completely staged) slam on Taylor Swift at last night’s [...]
Consider yourselves warned: This post is not going to be particularly heady, and has absolutely no political overtones whatsoever. It’s really just a series of casual observations.
Last Friday, to the sound of crickets chirping to all but a few members of the Twitter/Blogosphere (myself not included) WTMJ-AM station management reportedly [...]
Who hired this guy?
No need to spin these, folks. They’re pretty much self-explanatory:
Van Jones, defining “minimum and maximum goals” in the civil rights movement:
“Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said, ‘OK, now we want reparations [...]
Anyone who insists that pets are a reflection of their owners clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
“You people and your stupid camera! Can’t you see I’m trying to sleep? Don’t you have some yard work to do or something? And tell those creepy kids to stay off my lawn.” [...]
BadgerBlogger’s own Glenn D. Frankovis, retired Milwaukee Police Department captain, provided security consultation for Americans for Prosperity’s recent “town hall” style meetings on health care reform.
He outlines his observations on the events held this week in Madison, LaCrosse and Wausau in another thread here at BadgerBlogger, and you can [...]
And, good news. It’s open to the public. “Bring a friend,” says the e-mail being circulated by Organizing for America to promote the event.
That “Health Insurance Reform Now” bus just keeps on chugging toward Milwaukee. And, according to the website of the Milwaukee Dems, it will be making [...]
Seventeen-Hundred people. Seventeen-Hundred people? Yes, that is both a statement, and a question.
1,700 people turned out for an “informational session” held by CONSERVATIVE “organizers” on a Wednesday night in late summer at a hotel on the west side of MADISON, WISCONSIN.
Reflect on that for a few minutes.
Yet [...]
What do you suppose the carbon footprint of this bad boy is going to look like?
“Organizing for America plans a bus tour beginning Wednesday in cities including Phoenix, Albuquerque, N.M., Denver, Des Moines, Iowa, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, N.C., and Milwaukee. The bus will make 11 stops between Wednesday [...]
Earlier today I spoke with Bob Delaporte, Americans for Prosperity’s Wisconsin Chapter press secretary, about their upcoming Health Care Town Hall Meetings scheduled at locations around the state tomorrow, August 26th, and Thursday, August 27th.
AFP is taking their mission on the road, with stops in Madison, LaCrosse and Wausau featuring, [...]
A Washington Examiner editor opines on why White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ spin is getting old among members of the press corp, providing a critique of Obama’s behind-closed-doors deal with the pharmaceutical industry in the process:
“Gibbs has grown more sardonic and patronizing as the summer wears [...]
The New York Times reported this week on the frustration of several New York area Honda dealers who have laid out a collective $675,000.00 in “Cash for Clunkers” incentive rebates to their customers.
At the maximum allowable rebate of $4,500.00, that equates to a total of 150 automobile transactions. As [...]
False promises? Hypocrisy? Shady, behind-closed-doors dealing with pharmaceutical company lobbyists whom you criticized by name in your campaign commercials? Oh, no. Not from The One. Where’s the transparency? Even his bathroom visits were going to be simulcast on C-Span, remember?
An Air America host calls Barack Obama out on his serial [...]
Alrighty. I’m no spring chicken. I have friends all over the world, with whom I communicate regularly. I am no stranger to colloquialism. Yet, every once in a while, I find myself scratching my head, and resorting to sources as weak as Urban Dictionary in an attempt to figure [...]
Today, the President of the United States will spend a portion of his afternoon personally preaching to the already brainwashed, giving them the “strategy” his party believes they need to “fight the smear and lies” of those who claim that the goal of ObamaCare is, ultimately, a single-payer, state-run [...]
Here’s a problem that state, municipal and federal employees never have to deal with - Waiting to get their money from government. Apparently, enough is enough for more than 200 New York car dealers who announced through their industry association today they’d no longer be participating in the “Cash [...]
This morning, on WTMJ-AM’s Wisconsin’s Morning News, current Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton officially threw her hat into the ring for Governor Jim Doyle’s job.
When queried by Milwaukee radio legend Gene Mueller as to what, exactly, her “role” in the Doyle administration has been, after giving a non-answer about how she [...]
Remember, “organizing” is always a good thing when it comes from the DNC.
This Thursday, August 20th, at 2:30 P.M. EDT, President Obama will organize a “live strategy meeting” which will be available via telephone or webcast to a select group of persons who received this e-mail earlier today from [...]
Southern Mississippi’s WLOX reported within the past hour that some dude who used to play QB for the Green Bay Packers boarded a plane in Hattiesburg, MS at 9:10 this morning with his wife, and that the destination on the flight plan was apparently St. Paul, Minnesota.
WTMJ’s Lance Allan [...]
Uncle Sam will provide “direct loans or loan guarantees” to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, in the amount of $2 Billion - or more - to explore the Tupi oil field near Rio de Janeiro.
The Wall Street Journal opines:
“If President Obama [...]
Katie Couric on conservative “organizing”:
“What it’s done, it seems, is stirred a hornets’ nest, and uncovered disturbing attitudes and emotions that have nothing to do with policy.”
Politico is reporting that, for now at least, you’re going to have to find a new way to snitch on your political enemies (or, as Bill Ayers might describe them, folks who don’t qualify for “re-education”) online. The Obama administration, proving that each new day can bring executive decisions [...]
A couple weeks ago, through a mutual acquaintance, I posed a question to Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, asking what the single, most effective way to make your opinion known to your elected representatives, in his opinion, would be.
Unequivocally, his answer was personal contact. A phone call, an appearance at a [...]
As quoted by The Detroit News earlier this week, Democratic Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow (yes, wife of Tom Athans, co-founder of Air America and TalkUSARadio, who was arrested last year in a Detroit-area prostitution sting) displaying the logic with which she debates the future of American industry as [...]
We know the kids are still on vacation. We know many of us in the upper Midwest are enjoying our first “real” run of true summer weather. We know the leaves will be falling soon enough. We know the lawn needs to be mowed, and the deck needs to be [...]
Another member of congress disses a member of the “angry mob.” Seriously, you have to watch this.
SIDELINE NOTE: An astute e-mailer points out that the “distracted” congresswoman, Ms. Jackson Lee, once asked a NASA staffer - in a hearing dealing with the MARS Rover - “How far it would be [...]
According to an e-mail from Jim Doyle’s Chief of Staff, Susan Goodwin, to recently disgraced Chief Legal Counsel Records Custodian Senior Adviser state employee Chandra Miller-Fienen, authored last year, Goodwin declared Fienen’s effective start date with the Doyle Administration to be July 7, 2008.
According to the Wisconsin Democracy [...]
AARP is “on board” with Obama’s “health care reform?” Not exactly.
I’m pretty sure they’ll get on board, sooner or later. I am also fairly certain the negotiations will involve repeated use of the word “capiche.”
[...]Great job, Barry. Keep on talking. Spending too much time around Joe Biden? One too many Bud Lights?
The Heritage Foundation weighs in on Obama’s carefully referenced “symbiotic relationship” between UPS, FedEx, and the USPS at this link.
[...]WTMJ-AM has, in their web report on Gwen Moore’s “town hall” meeting later this afternoon, amended the sentence “only people who live there [the 4th District] are allowed to attend the meeting” to read instead “the meeting is for people of the 4th Congressional District, though she [Moore] says [...]
Gwen Moore’s minions have gotten the word out to the media that “only 4th District residents will be able to attend” her health care “information session” this afternoon at North Division High School.
At their website, WTMJ-AM writes: “The meeting is not open to everybody, only to 4th [...]
Barack Hussein Soetoro-Obama, speaking to the American Medical Association, 15 June, 2009:
“The public option is not your enemy, it is your friend… Let me also address an ‘illegitimate’ concern that is being put forward by those who are claiming a ‘public option’ is somehow a Trojan Horse for a [...]
No, I’m not being melodramatic. They’ve set up a “war room.”
According to the results of a Rasmussen poll released earlier today, when it comes to health care, more Americans fear their government than they do private insurance companies.
Americans are, by nature, a benevolent people. With rare exception, most [...]
You’ve undoubtedly seen Georgia Congressman David Scott’s finger-waving, accusatory rant which ensued when confronted with questions about his support for ObamaCare at a town-hall meeting last week. A meeting which, while not specifically about health care, provided for a period of “open floor questioning” from his constituents.
But who [...]
Peggy Noonan, in an opinion for the Wall Street Journal, addresses the compassionate and well-reasoned (read: thug-like) Democrat response to the concern expressed by average, taxpaying citizens (read: YOU) over the direction their country is headed:
“All of this is unnecessarily and unhelpfully divisive and provocative. They are mocking [...]
Being part of an angry right-wing mob has probably taken a toll on you this week. We’re quite certain you need a place to vent. Here it is.
Please don’t use any “fishy speech.” We sure don’t want anybody squealing on us to the big guy.
[...]It’s only a “scare tactic” if it comes from anyone willing to speak out against our overlords.
The following is an actual copy of an e-mail being circulated today by the “Organizing for America” wing of the DNC to constituents within U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore’s district, entitled “Beating the [...]
Madison blogger gets the ear of U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), points out her acknowledged support of a “single payer system,” and gets a revealing answer.
“Q: You’ve always been a strong supporter of a single payer system. Do you think this bill, even if it passes not [...]
Grassroots “organizing” for progressive “change” = Good Thing
Grassroots “organizing” by taxpaying citizens, concerned for the future of their country, expressing their opinions to their representatives = “Angry (Swastika carrying?) Mobs”
Got it? We’re all clear on this, right?
[...]Nice going, Minnesota.
[...]They possess the majority viewpoint, and are tired of being portrayed as sharing an opinion with the “idiot fringe.” So says a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Via Bloomberg:
“President Barack Obama’s effort to revamp the U.S. health-care system is drawing increasing disapproval from Americans worried about higher [...]
Is the controversial “Cash for Clunkers” rebate program the “huge success” many are claiming it to be, as additional funding for the program is sought?
So far, no one seems to know. In spite of repeated requests by the Associated Press, and a promise to do so, the National [...]
People are waking up to what “Health Care Reform” is really all about, and, as Roland points out in another thread, the union goon squads aren’t all too happy about it.
You’re making your voices known, and need to keep up the heat. Even the media is being forced to [...]
