It seems Rush Limbaugh has taken the bait in a bit of liberal media spin designed to sugar coat the budget deal reached this week for the closing 6 months of GFY 11 (which ends Oct 1, 2011). Apparently the usually sharp Limbaugh fell for some misinformation meant to convince the left they weren’t really [...]

President Obama is going to make a lame attempt to grab the leadership role in this country by producing another, radically different GFY 12 budget than the he produced a few short weeks ago. Back then President Obama was very tentative and pushed the hard cuts past the next election cycle. He proposed $1.1 Trillion [...]

The big surprise about the Ryan plan is that the older voters and current seniors probably agree with Ryan. As Bill Kristol noted Medicare is bankrupt and ready to cut services and payments. Doctors are fleeing from it – at least the good ones. So if you are like me, 51 years old, and faced [...]

I think I have watched my last Fox News Sunday. The two liberals on the panel were in a fantasy world, spinning out lame DNC talking points. It was such a bad act I thought I was watching Charlie Sheen pretending to be deep and thoughtful. As Brit Hume noted, the President and Senate leader [...]

Update: Even more liberal gnashing of teeth: These budget negotiations were a giant win for the Republican Party. President Obama initially cut $40 billion from his own budget proposal — and he got absolutely no credit for that. … The Republicans claimed in February that they wanted $32 billion in cuts from that point on. [...]

Nancy Pelosi said the following in her inaugural speech to the House as the first female Speaker of the House: And the American people told us they expected us to work together for fiscal responsibility, with the highest ethical standards and with civility and bipartisanship. After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit [...]

Update: Harry Reid (no doubt with the full support and backing of the WH) has come out and claimed there is no greater priority to the nation than Planned Parenthood. Military pay, secondary. That laundry list of damage President Obama listed last night – secondary. Everything the government does and all the people who work [...]

Update: How expected! Prosser gains 7,300+ votes and AJStrata confirms unofficial vote tallies are rarely good to within +/- 1% (see below). Which means be patient – this could twist some more as the error is driven out of the count. Right now though, that is a huge lead for Kloppenburg to overcome (~0.5% of [...]

Major Update: The Moron-in-Chief has spoken – PUNISH THE TROOPS!: Really? Will Obama really argue that he can’t abide a one-week CR so much that he’s willing to shut down the government and leave the troops without income for an indeterminate amount of time? This statement concedes that this bill takes the troops out of [...]

Confirmed: it seems the Obama administration is going to punish our brave troops for his and his party’s incompetence and stubbornness: Troops are paid on the 15th and the final day of the month, and Mr. Gates [Defense Secretary] said that if a government shutdown began after Friday, troops would receive half a paycheck for [...]

My Marine son and his brethren are fuming because the Obama administration has decided that paying our troops is something not required under a shutdown: Programs that are essential for the safety and security of the country are exempted from a shutdown, but the administration still has to figure out where to draw the line [...]

Time to exhale folks. As of now 99+% of the precincts are in, including the Dane County votes (Kloppenburg’s stronghold). It is now a question of absentee ballot GOTV and statistics. Kloppenburg’s lead is 447 votes in the unofficial (and rushed) tallies. The recount will take weeks and the results will shift throughout: The Government [...]

Previous posts here and here. As I noted yesterday, the election for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in WI was going to be a clear indicator of the political forces roiling through the electorate. All the lefty spin doctors were out claiming a win by the liberal, union-backed Kloppenburg would scare the pants off the GOP [...]

1:17 AM Eastern: Calling it a night, need to work tomorrow. Looks like Kloppenburg has hope in Dane (1), Eau Claire (6), Milwaukee (12) and a smattering of others. Prosser has hope in Marathon (32), Jefferson (1), Manitowoc (1) and not much else. Prosser’s lead down to 1.7k. Could go either way, but I doubt [...]

OK, I have sworn off making predictions in close and dynamic races that confound conventional wisdom due to unique or rare forces at play. Case in point: Today’s election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It appears all nominal turn out models can be tossed out, leaving us the reality that we have [...]