Archive for April 6th, 2011

KLOPPENBURG WINS!! The people of Wisconsin have spoken

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Kloppenburg won an election she should never have won dealing a humiliating blow to the Republican Tea Party and their media toads. This is a total Wisonsin smackdown of Scott Walker.

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Woman Who Attacked My Favorite Gauguin Painting Hates Homos

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Woman Who Attacked My Favorite Gauguin Painting Hates Homos

I know that having “Two Tahitian Women” as one’s favorite Gauguin panting is like having “Starry Night” as one’s favorite Van Gogh painting, or “Water Lilies” as your favorite Monet painting, but some visual cliches are visual cliches because THEY ARE AWESOME!! AMIRIGHT?

Anyway, art appreciation aside…

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Wednesday Open Thread

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The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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Don Ayotte Quits GOP Chair Race

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Donald Ayotte, the Teabagger from downstate seeking to Teabag the entire GOP, has withdrawn from the GOP Chairman race, opting instead to run for the Vice Chairman’s job. The GOP Chairman race is now between perennial loser and airline pilot Mike Protack and former NRA President John Sigler of Dover.

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Blaming Teenage Girls – It’s All The Rage!

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Jennifer Moses is conflicted. All of which brings me to a question: Why do so many of us not only permit our teenage daughters to dress like this—like prostitutes, if we’re being honest with ourselves—but pay for them to do it with our AmEx cards? Gee, I don’t know, Jennifer.  Why are you okay with […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 6, 2011

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Perhaps the greatest thing about this blogging gig is that I get to wallow in self-indulgence. (However, not as much as Matt Denn does. Before I die, I want to write one sentence at least as funny as “I am confident that I am the only Lieutenant Governor in America who has had to utter […]

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The Very Serious Paul Ryan Budget

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The very serious Paul Ryan released his magical deficit reduction plan yesterday. Cutting taxes = deficit reduction and ending Medicare = JOBS.

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This Post is Not About Obama – It is about dumb, failed Democratic election strategies

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I am not breaking my recent promise to have mercy on my liberal brothers and sisters by dragging poor Barack through the “purity” mud with my magic pony. I promise.

Rather – I am pointing out, (for my nth time as a blogger) that there are two ways to conduct a national campaign. There is the Democratic Party’s system of trying to appeal to 5% of the “swing” voters through “triangulation.” We can also call this the “50% plus 1” strategy that Bill Clinton won with. There is the “Energize the Base” strategy which a Democrat won with in 2008.

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Free Market Rules

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Bristol Palin was paid >$250,000 by the Candies Foundation to send her message of don’t do what I did my baby is the greatest thing ever.

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