Wisconsin Politics

And Don't Forget, Scott Walker's 250,000 Jobs Promise Had A Part Two

October 17, 2011 by The Political E...

That would be creating also 10,000 new businesses. That's what he said on very own campaign website, and since he has a poor personal relationship with facts, memory and follow-through, let's make sure we help him remember both parts of the big bumper-sticker promise that helped him win the Governorship.

Check it out for yerselves:

Scott Walker Unveils Plan to Bring 250,000 Jobs and 10,000 New Businesses to Wisconsin by 2015 Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Tells Business Leaders “People Create Jobs, Not Government”

Madison – Scott Walker, Milwaukee County executive and candidate for governor, announced today at the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) Gubernatorial Candidate Forum his ambitious plan to bring 250,000 jobs and 10,000 new businesses to Wisconsin by 2015....

Tommy Thompson To Talk Stem Cells At The Vatican

October 17, 2011 by The Political E...

Our ex-Governor takes his last-ditch quest for one more Big Title (US Senator) all the way to Rome, Italy - - surely there are more actual votes in Rome, Wisconsin - - for a talk on stem cells, where just about anything could happen in a move so Onionesque.

As has been noted, Tommy has been all over the place on the issue of embryonic stem cells, but to the Right, which the one-time relatively moderate Tommy is courting, it's a closed issue.

On Common Ambitions, Or, Occupy Wall Street Likes Capitalism – Sort Of

October 16, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Well I’m finally back here at work after another recent series of personal adventures; in the middle of all the fun I’ve been finding time to get down to my local “Occupy” event, and for those of you who have not been keeping up I thought we’d take a moment today to compare a bit of Fox-driven perception to the reality I’ve been seeing. What I’ve been told to expect, at least in certain quarters of the public space, are dirty filthy hippies with no jobs or ambitions hoping to destroy America while having deviant public couplings fueled by the free distribution of dangerous psychotropic drugs. Sadly, I’ve found that there’s not really much truth in that description, even as tiny bits of it do ring true; but with a manifesto in hand and a few conversations under my belt we’ll see what we can do to create a picture that will surprise a lot of the 99% who already support Occupy Wall Street, even if they don’t know it yet.

Individuals or individual states may call themselves what they please: but the world, and especially the world of enemies, is not to be held in awe by the whistling of a name.