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Posted on November 19 at 8:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What difference does it make if Cullen were to drive a Lexus? It is really pathetic that those who want to force others to buy specific consumer items beleive that restricting the choices of others will somehow majically make GM products better.
What if Toyota/Lexus approached GM and said, we'll buy the Gm facility and we want to produce lexus/camry hybrids lcally and we need to hire 1500 assembly line employees. Would the same bigotry apply?
On GM appeal
Posted on November 18 at 4:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Riche95:
D1 consistently votes the Democrat candidate in Presidential elections-irrespective of candidate or how left that candidate may lean. Tell me Riche95, who was the last republican to win in WI congressional 1st district?
Obama is not way left of Thomas. Thomas is a single issue "heath care for all candidate." No one knows what if any position he had on economics or immigration or tax policy or fiscal policy or defense or free trade or any other of host of issues that our elected officials confront while in congress.
Dr Thomas is a skilled surgeon, a community leader, devoted to children and Janesvile schools, but wholly un-electable in the broadest sense. He ran his compaigns on an overly simplistic platitude and he voters of D1 saw through him. As a result he was soundly beaten every time. Marge Krupp won 35% of the vote-in a year when congressional approval ratings are 10% and GWB approval ratings are 30% and she STILL had no chance!
Krupp's website is replete with platitudes and democratic talking points. Krupp is arguably a nice person but failed to demonstrate any personal political ideology-this contributed to her landslide defeat. Local dems who continue to run elections like Thomas and Krupp will continue to be beaten by wide margins.
Posted on November 17 at 12:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Stan:
Margie Krupp or Jeff Thomas are candidates are much farther left of the majority of D1 constituents-this is the reason why these type of candidates are beaten by 30%.
George Soros himselft could have cut a blank check to Krupp and the outcome would have been the same.
Local politics is just that---local. Krupp and Thomas and others who have opposed Ryan look to government solutions for every ill society has. Complaints of income inequality are nothing new and simplistic complaints do not represent a political ideology. For the left to win in District 1, they need to espouse an ideology more aligned with the majority of constituents. Funding is not the issue-the issue is political ideology and until D1 hard-core dems learn this political lesson the results will be the same.
Posted on November 11 at 4:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I disagree. Ryan will not "die on the vine" poltically, he won re-election overwhelmingly and holds much more power politically in Congress than in a non cabinet level, appointed position.
Stan, as you know, nationally, congressional approval ratings are about 10% and yet the vast majority of congress continues to be re-elected, including Ryan. Ryan himself lives and represents a district that overwhelmingly and consistently votes Democrat (Nationally) and yet Ryan wins convincingly. This says one of two things-D1 voters approve of the job Ryan is doing or the democrats cannot find a "strong" candidate (you used the word strong-I find the last few candidates as wholly unelectable and weak politically-as did D1 constituents.) D1 is Ryan's seat as long as he chooses to serve.
What do you mean by leading damage control? What damage? Nancy Pelosi leads congress, not Paul Ryan. The democrats have a strong majority in congress and over the next 2 years you will not see any "Bipartisian legislation." Obama will be able to set his direction and Pelosi and Reid will carry the water for him (or Pelosi and Reid will tell Obama what they want to do) irrespective of the republicans in Congress-the Dems can do whatever they choose as they have the votes to pass legislation. The majority party rules-it is as simple as that.
As for politically appointed positions, they serve at the pleasure of the President-and thus carry the water of the President. While Ryan and Obama may be able to personally get a long, I cannot see a principled, fiscal conservative leading the charge for job killing corporate tax increases, massive increases in social security taxes (without reciprocal increases in benefits), massive increases in capital gains taxes, and higher income taxes on all tax payers (as Obama sunsets the Bush tax cuts). These are the promises of an Obama presidency. What you are proposing is to give Ryan enough rope to hang himself because thats what he would do working for an Obama administration.
Posted on October 20 at 3:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sheridan is a shill for the UAW. THe UAW wants its members to vote lock step with democrate candidates. Just follow the UAW PAC oney.
Sheridan and others had a chance to ask Senator Obama about his choice for punitive CAFE standards and other choices that hurt the US auto industry-especially an aged Janesville facility. How effective will local UAW be in 2010 when there is no industry in Janesville? What guarantees can the UAW provide to a non-existant work force? Zero.
Those that work the line look just like America-40% democrats and 40% Republicans. 20% lean left or right, but 99% of the UAW money goes to the left as it has for decades? What has the return on that investment been?
Barack Obama thanks you for your support. I hope those dues paying UAW members believe their forced dues hep support politicians who destroy their way of life.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary....
The UAW gets what it pays for, right Mike?
Posted on August 14 at 5:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Proartist:
Please tell me how much is a liveable minimum wage?
By "reproductive rights" do you mean abortion on demand at anytime during gestation?, is this a euphimism for reproductive rights?
Other worker rights? What "rights" specifically? Or is this another platitude?
What personnel freedoms are denied to hetero or homosexuals? Specifically which freedoms in the Bill of Rights are you referring to? Perhaps another platitude?
What does a critical thinking cirriculum consist of? Do the teachers unions support this? And if by legislative fiat Paul Ryan could change this, are you willing to hold teachers accountable to teaching children critical thinking skills? Is the ability to read and write critical thinking skills? How about mathimatical skills? Or perhaps what you really want is more money into government schools and less choice?
Wire tapping? Are you referring to the same domestic programs initiated by Bill Clinton and supported by Nancy Pelosi? Do you see balck helicopters outside?
Military expenditures? I think the US operates an all volunteer military. What is your stance on domestic welfare spending Lets look at both sides of the ledger.
You forgot the holy grail of progess on the road to socialism: socialized medicine!
Posted on April 7 at 9:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Tens of Millions of people fly annually without incident. This is an isolated incident and why does CNN chose to run with it? Nipple rings. Had it been genital piercings, perhaps the NYTimes and the evening news would have also ran the story.
The fact is this is less a story about TSAsecurity and more about the CNN producer's interest in nipple rings. Sex sells. Would CNN run this story if it were an underwire bra and not nipple rings? Doubtful. What if it was a toe ring (that could not be removed) again, not news worthy.
Was it handled poorly. Yes. Should a female TSA agent been brought in. Yes. Does this isolated episode mischaracterize TSA and its agents. Yes. Is CN interested in running stories taht catch people with their pants down or their shirts off, again-Yes.
For someone who wants "only an apology" why hire an attorney? Cleary, the attorney would not be interested in unless he/she sought remuneration. Now this issue is news worthy. "SHould the TSA be forced to pay passengers when a human error occurs during the preflight screening process? Then again, its not the TSA that will pay, its the flying public who already pays for TSA screening in the form of higher airfares.
Flying is not a right. Flying, like driving, is a privilege. Trying flying through isreal with nipple rings or genital piercings-then call CNN.
Posted on February 15 at 5:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Suppose everyone had to buy mandatory "food insurance" to protect restaurants against nonpaying customers who skipped on their bills, and the government got to decide what constituted a "permissible meal" that all restaurants had to offer, and it also established a huge "Connector" to enforce the rules on restaurants, food insurers, and customers.
Then everyone could see that it would be an enormous boondoggle. The cost-shifting from the nonpaying customers to paying customers wouldn't go away - instead, it would explode under new taxes, bureaucratic waste and mismanagement, and predictable special interest lobbying to get their particular pet foods included in the basic meal plan.
These adverse economic consequences would be a direct result of the government violating the rights of individual customers and restaurants, by forbidding them to freely contract between themselves what meals they wished to purchase for what price to their mutual voluntary consent.
Compulsory insurance is based on collective punishment, a perverted form of justice found where troops patrol streets and spitballs go splat. It punishes both the insured and uninsured for the misdeeds of politicians.
Posted on February 15 at 5:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, looks like you'll be among the lucky one's in 2009 to receive a big income tax increase ! Perhaps it will be retroactive!
Congrats!
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Posted on November 19 at 5:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Riche:
I think you and I agree on more than we disagree. Also, as for D1 republicans, I actually meant presidential politics. I believe Neumann ran for senate and lost-which is one reason he is gone.
If D1 dems continue to put forth candidates like Thomas and Krupp, they are in trouble. With this being true, I do not believe Stanly Milams belief that had Krupp had more funding she would have been electable. The democrats could have made a "respectable showing" with a candidate that represents the political ideology of Wisconsin first congressional district. They chose someone who spoke like Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
On Southern Wisconsin Democrats continue to drop the ball