Displaying 1,381 To 1,410 Of 2,270 Comments @news3jessica » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 9:41 pm It’s over. Wow. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 9:29 pm Nope. All down to Milwaukee now. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 9:12 pm Wakeshauh (sp?) declares that no more voting results for at least an hour. Well that seems reasonable. *****EDIT Scratch that, results up shortly. Bad numbers. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 9:01 pm She’s pulling ahead! Gah!!!! » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 8:06 pm Hopper up by 500 with only the rest of Winnebago to vote. King up by 1100 in Winnebago with half the precincts left to vote. If trends hold, this race is going to end in a dead heat and a recount will take place. Wow! Gripping stuff! » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:59 pm Most of the city is in Hopper’s district. But historically FDL is pretty darn red. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:42 pm Seriously. How many of his girlfriends can he get to vote anyway? » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:40 pm King may be in trouble. Fond du lac is Hopper’s hometown and pretty darn conservative. Zero results in from there yet. 🙁 » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:34 pm You bet Sally, this is the template for the future. Right here. Lot of other states watching. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:30 pm Pasch is over. Only 8 precincts reporting from Milwaukee, and she is up 30%. Two down, one to go. King is troubling. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:29 pm The Schilling race is done. She’s going to win. LaCrosse trending hugely in her favor. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:23 pm Prediction: Pasch / King / Schilling win The others lose. » Posted By funksands On August 9, 2011 @ 7:17 pm Correction: Hillary Was Never a Progressive, but Johnny Reid Was … I know exactly what Hillary was and is, and I was pretty close on Obama, though I would encourage planeteers to go back and read my post “Obama, Culture Warrior?” and give it another spin… This was Nixon: *imposed wage and price controls. *indexed Social Security for inflation. *created Supplemental Security Income. *created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). *created Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). *promoted the Legacy of parks program. *implemented the Philadelphia Plan, the first significant federal affirmative action program. *dramatically improved salaries for US federal employees worldwide. *signed a bill that lowered the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 miles per hour to conserve gasoline during the 1973 energy crisis. *established the Office of Minority Business Enterprise. *On February 6, 1974, he introduced the Comprehensive Health Insurance Act. Nixon’s plan would have mandated employers to purchase health insurance for their employees, and in addition provided a federal health plan like Medicaid that any American could join by paying on a sliding scale based on income. Was Nixon a liberal? By no means. But he was the last President that even smelled like one. Obama pulled the political narrative back to Carter at best. We have a lot more work to do. Knowing this, I am pleasantly surprised when liberal policies come out of the Whitehouse, and not surprised at all when they don’t. I keep calling and writing and suggesting and plan to support his re-election in 2012, while dreaming of the love child of Eugene Debbs and FDR…. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 8:30 pm Ad, KQ I get that. I don’t think people are tuning INTO the GOP. I’m afraid of people just tuning out in general and choosing not to participate. » Posted By funksands On August 11, 2011 @ 9:14 am I don’t mind losing. I do mind a poorly-executed game plan. I happen to think that the President CAN count on the support of much of the left no matter how much of a hissy-fit they throw, because they ARE informed for the most part. They are comparative voters for sure. The leaners? The casual voter? The young? The Obama Republicans? They are starting to tune out. That is what I am afraid of. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 11:31 pm I don’t mind when the President yells back at me. Maybe I’m weird. I don’t think the stimulus went far enough either. Liberals are never satisified, that is our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. We’ll never stop complaining, agitating, trying to make things better. The neo-left is different though. The two-three groups are very hard to tell apart in the whole mish-mash of feedback. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 11:22 pm Jkk, totally joking. Sorry. 🙂 » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 11:16 pm Ad, I think that IS the point. What historical context did FDR have to draw from? None. The Great Depression had never happened before. They tried a lot of things that worked and a lot of things that failed. We have a very clear record of this and can and should draw upon that to guide us now. When we don’t, even when we know better? That is what creates frustration. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 11:16 pm I’m confused. I have EXTREME CLARITY about the level of opposition that the President faces. I can also list nearly from memory the accomplishments of the President over the last 2.5 years. I visit the whitehouse website, diligently send my postcards of support and suggestions to the President. I understand the positively SYSIPHUSIAN task that he has faced, and will face in his next term. He reminds me of a soccer goalie. The best in the world. Save after save after save after save. The problem is that role does not enable him to go on offense. If this criticism of the President marks me as uninformed or ungrateful or unsupportive (is that a word?) well that’s too damn bad. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 10:58 pm Ooh. Good find. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 10:43 pm Sabreen, that’s it exactly. A horse race. The MSM doesn’t give a rat’s ass whether Obama gets a fair shake or not. They want drama, angst, combat, and high-strung emotional fluff. If all they did was have reasonable people that debated the merits and problems of the administration they’d go out of business. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 10:42 pm Eileen, great seeing you! Glad you chimed in. I get almost none of my news from the MSM and I consider myself very informed. I volunteer what time I have to the Dems here locally and statewide. I am a supporter of the President and I respectfully disagree with you. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 10:39 pm and Amway. Don’t forget Amway. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 8:43 pm OT: Where did FDR get his wealth? Inherited from his mother Sally. Where did she get it? From her Warren Delano. Where did he get it? Smuggling opium in China. True story. A lot of the blue-blood east coast families made their fortune this way. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-secret-history.html » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 8:35 pm Doc Blue, great post. “The DIFFERENCE, however, has been that Roosevelt seemed more willing to OWN THE POLICY AND DEFEND THE PRINCIPLES that were such a success, whereas Obama has LET THE NOTION that the stimulus failed become conventional wisdom.. DESPITE THE FACTS.” That is the crux of the issue for sure. » Posted By funksands On August 10, 2011 @ 8:32 pm Presidential Primary Challenges Miss the Point Em, couldn’t have said it any better. Excellent. » Posted By funksands On August 11, 2011 @ 2:19 pm Morrna, this is a nice piece. Very well expressed and thought out. A primary challenge to Obama is insanity at worst, hubris at best. I know a few people that think a primary is a good idea and don’t understand why I don’t. Simple, there is no viable candidate or plan that has a chance in hell of succeeding. Give me one and I’m happy to consider it. That is a pretty big barrier to overcome and pretty much shuts my ears to anyone that advocates for a primary. My attitude has always been to change the party form the inside. Work locally in your precinct to get more liberal candidates elected, work locally to get more liberals as precinct committepersons. Get involved in your state democratic party operations and find other liberals to do the same. Change will have to come from the bottom up. What’s great about that is that the vast majority of Americans SUPPORT traditional Democratic and liberal policies. Give them an avenue to support it on a local level, and national will eventually follow. Tea-partiers, evangelicals and dominionists took big chunks of political power for themselves on a state and local level just this way. Thom Hartmann even had a piece on the template they used to pull it off. http://www.concordcoaltion.org Trying to force a more progressive agenda from the top down through a primary challenge is not only doomed, but even worse, its lazy. » Posted By funksands On August 11, 2011 @ 12:15 pm Cher, you speak for me as well. I am motivated by the knowledge that we are in a fight to the death that won’t ever end. But I certainly need something beyond that to be inspired to rise above mere survival. Right now, the administration and power centers of the Democratic party are not providing it. » Posted By funksands On August 6, 2011 @ 11:47 pm Oh don’t I know it. If the earthquakes don’t get us first. » Posted By funksands On August 6, 2011 @ 9:37 pmComments Posted By funksands
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Milwaukee final numbers: Darling (R) 13580 Pasch (D) 22225 #wirecall
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