Tammy You Can Do Better!

By Jeff Simpson

I received this email from Tammy Baldwin recently:

Tammy has emailed you. The team has emailed you. I've emailed you.
 Jeff— when we ran the numbers, we saw we needed to raise $50,000 through our email program to stay on track for our FEC goal. And we’re just not there. I really need you to understand just how important this is.
 If you know how important Tammy’s grassroots fundraising is, then please give $5 or more to help us get there!
 We've tried everything, and we're still about $38,700 behind. If we don't speed up our fundraising soon, we will not hit this goal.
 And we absolutely CANNOT afford to miss this. Tammy's under attack. Another opponent jumped into this race. We need this money.
 At the end of the month, the FEC will publish our fundraising numbers and if the corporate special interests and Mitch McConnell’s cronies think we’re weak, we’ll see even more outside spending pour in. And they’ll know we don’t have the money to push back.
 If begging will work, that's what I'll do. That's how important it is to get to $50,000 before the FEC deadline in 5 days. Please, please, please — contribute today.
 Thanks,
 Emily

The Senate is voting on repealing all provisions and protections of  Obamacare, the President is threatening to kill 25 million North Koreans and start a war, the Russian invasion of our election is becoming clearer, Texas and Florida are still recovering from Mother Natures wraith and Puerto Rico may never recover, a group of Trump administration officials were caught using private emails, racism, Misogyny and sexism are boiling over in America and The Donald keeps tweeting like he is a drunk at bar time trying to get even with all the people who bullied him.

Despite all of that, Senator Baldwin emails us an email asking, no begging for money because of some deadline that means nothing at all to anyone but politicians.  Lets remember the election is still over a year away.

Apparently, Ms. Baldwin is falling short of a measly $50,000 and needs you to send your hard earned money ASAP to her for who knows what exactly? 

I get that politicians need money to run and we are a long way from changing that.  I also get that her opponent whoever it is, will be incredibly well funded, so well funded that $50,000 will be peanuts towards competing with the money they will have.

The one thing Tammy always wins at is her message. 

So why is she spending valuable contact time between herself and her Constituents.  on a desperate begging email, that is beneath her?

It is my turn, Tammy, Please, please, please - Stop this ridiculous begging for money.  You are going to be underfunded compared to your opponent, so when you get a chance to connect with voters in the state, BRING US A MESSAGE. 

I know you can do it, I have heard you talk and talked with you personally!  You are one of the bright spots in an otherwise dark Senate.  Instead of sending these ridiculous emails, lets try something new.

Send us positive emails with a message with what the Republican controlled Senate is doing and how things will be different when we switch the control in 2018.   

We found out in the last election, that electioneering is no longer the same.  When America elected The Donald, and Wisconsin re-elected Ron Johnson, all old rules and tricks on how to win elections were thrown out the window. 

I am sure you get a decent response of people who you scared with your email sending you money, but the one question I have for you is -  How many new voters did you convince to vote for you because of that email? 

It is time to be positive, unconventional and informative so you can be re-elected to the Senate again next year!   

Senatorial Gun Math

By Jeff Simpson

Today, the US Senate took up the bipartisan bill to expand background checks for gun purchases.   90% of the American people are for this bill and it lost in the US Senate in a vote of 54-46.  Yes that is 54 yes votes and 46 No votes that stopped the bill, try explaining that to your kids.  

While many people who were actual victims of mass shootings in the gallery to watch this historic day when we worked together to stop the problem of massive gun violence in the US.  Unfortunately they, and all of us, were let down. As bad as it was for most of us Americans, the one person who was most upset was President Obama!  

President Obama can deliver a speech when he is so moved and he nailed this one!   I reposted the full speech here, since Fox News did not feel that it was important enough to show!   We know that many of our readers on the right, only watch Fox news, so you are welcome.

Want to know how our "citizen legislator" voted when 90% of the citizens were looking for a YES vote?


 
 As President Obama says "We have to send the RIGHT people to Washington".  Boy did we screw that up royally in WI!  

Senator Mitch McConnell (R - Dumb Ass)

H/T Raw Story:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) introduced legislation to raise the debt ceiling on Thursday, apparently with the intent of showing that even Democrats would not support such a bill.

However, McConnell’s plan backfired after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called for a vote on the legislation, which would have given the president the authority to raise the federal debt ceiling on his own.

The top Senate Republican was forced to filibuster his own bill.

“What we have here is a case of Republicans here in the Senate once again not taking ‘yes’ for an answer,” Reid said, after McConnell announced his filibuster. “This morning the Republican leader asked consent to have a vote on this proposal, just now I told everyone we were willing to have that vote — up or down vote. Now the Republican leader objects to his own idea. So I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill, so I object.”

Apparently aware the incident would bring media attention, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) expressed astonishment at McConnell’s legislative antics.

“What just transpired deserves a word,” he remarked. “Sen. McConnell came to the floor this morning and offered a change in law that would help us avoid the kind of obstruction and the kind of show downs we’ve had in the past over the debt ceiling.”

Durbin explained “to those who don’t follow the Senate” that by calling for the legislation to be passed by a 60-vote majority, McConnell had filibustered the bill. He said this was probably the first time in history that a senator had filibuster his own proposal.

Reid and other Democrats have called for the Senate’s filibuster rules to be reformed, claiming that Republicans have abused the parliamentary procedure and obstructed lawmaking.

Paul Ryan Need's This Man

Indiana's U.S. Senate seat is up for grab this year, far right extremist Republican candidate Richard Mourdock was in a debate recently and he let his true republican colors come to light!

"I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God," Mourdock said. "And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."

Luckily for the people of Indiana, there are some sane people in the state, including his opponent Democratic challenger Joe Donnelly.   

Democrats immediately pounced on his comments, and Donnelly -- who is also pro-life but who supports exceptions for rape and incest -- released a statement questioning the notion that God would "intend for rape to happen."

"The God I believe in and the God I know most Hoosiers believe in, does not intend for rape to happen -- ever," Donnelly said. "What Mr. Mourdock said is shocking, and it is stunning that he would be so disrespectful to survivors of rape.

Hmmm sound eerily similar to the views on rape and abortion of Todd Akin and Paul Ryan!    Let's check in and see what Paul Ryan(R-forcible rape) thinks of Mr. Mourdock, and his views on God Given Rape Gifts:

Jeff Fitzgerald To Run For US Senate - A Case Of Delusions Of Grandeur

Jeff Fitzgerald in a candid moment.

Friday morning, on the Charlie Sykes squawk radio show, State Representative Jeff Fitzgerald made a surprise visit.  During the few minutes he was chatting with Charlie, Fitz the Lesser came just short of making any formal announcement that he is going to run for US Senate.

Apparently he thinks that he will be able to sneak past as the two big GOP bull elephants, Tommy Thompson and Mark Neumann battle it out. (BTW, Neumann is expected to make his formal announcement on Monday.)

Showing a remarkable lack of insight, Fitz the Lesser stated that he thought he'd be able to win because of his fiscal conservatism and for the things that he's done to for Wisconsin in the past eight months.

I was not aware that raising taxes, raising fees and increasing spending was now considered fiscal conservatism.

Anyway, as I mulled this over, I tried to imagine what his campaign slogan would be.  I came up with a few, but I really don't know how they'd help him:

• Vote for Fitz - He'll take care of those other pesky rights, like allowing minorities and women to vote!
• Vote for Fitz - His brother needs even more tax breaks!
• Vote for Fitz - He's Koch Brothers approved!
• Vote for Fitz - Millions of Wisconsin working families can't be right!
• Vote for Fitz - He'll make Nixon look like a slacker!
• Vote for Fitz - He'll do what the Koch Brothers want!
• Vote for Fitz - Or Prosser will choke the b*tch!
• Vote for Fitz - It could be worse - It could be Walker!
• Vote for Fitz - Peace and prosperity are way overrated!

Which ones can you think of?

US Senate To Consider "Rosa's Law"

This is good news indeed:

The Senate is expected to consider a measure this week to replace the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in references throughout federal government.

The bill known as “Rosa’s Law” is scheduled to be considered by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee on Wednesday.

Under the proposed law, there would be no change to the rights of individuals with disabilities, but the terminology used in federal health, education and labor policy would be altered.

Several states have already passed similar laws and some federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already use the term intellectual disability, according to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who introduced the bill last fall. What’s more, recommendations for the upcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders released earlier this year also call for the term “mental retardation” to be done away with in the medical field.

This bill is long overdue, but I can't help but wonder if they couldn't find something better than "intellectual disability."

For the record, the State of Wisconsin still uses the old "mental retardation" language. Milwaukee County even has positions with that term incorporated into them (Qualified Mental Retardation Professional).