Republicans: The Real Hypocritical, Crybaby Snowflakes

Republicans Seek to Limit Governor’s Veto

Wisconsin Republicans Advance Lame-Duck Power Grab

McConnell Would Fill Potential Supreme Court Vacancy In 2020, Reversal Of 2016 Stance

Fox News’ Chris Wallace Hits GOP for Complaining About Investigations: Remember Benghazi?

Republicans who held 33 hearings on Benghazi complain that Cohen’s testimony was a waste of time

Republicans tried to turn a hearing about white nationalism into a venue to complain about attacks on conservatives

Abolishing the Electoral College Was a Republican Idea

The disgraceful kowtowing of the formerly anti-imperial Republicans

After Reagan and Trump, Republicans don't get to complain about liberal celebrities anymore

The Republicans Are Deficit Hypocrites. The Democrats Should Be, Too.

Republican Leaders Vow to Obstruct State Budget, Then Complain About Lack of Negotiations

Senate Republicans can’t explain why they keep blocking a resolution calling for the release of the Mueller report

To GOP, Obama’s immigration orders were ‘executive overreach.’ What is it when Trump does it?

We Wouldn’t Have Let Obama Get Away With This

Sparks fly on Fox News as liberal nails Republican hypocrisy on outside questioning of Barr: ‘Like they did with Kavanaugh?’

Steve Wynn Is a Shining Example of Republican Hypocrisy

Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan's profound hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem

Ocasio-Cortez rips ‘horrifying’ Republican hypocrisy on support for 9/11 survivors after Ilhan Omar controversy

The Republican hypocrisy over Ilhan Omar's comment

Republicans Aren't Just Hypocrites, They're Nihilists

More Republican Hypocrisy On Separation Of Powers

Minister Calls Out ‘Hypocrisy’ of Republican Lawmakers Toward Unborn During Wisc. Republican State Convention

The Appalling Hypocrisy Of The Republican Party Exposed In Three Simple Charts

Ari Melber Destroys Paul Ryan's Pathetic 'Legacy'

Midweek Reading: Wisconsin Republicans Are Horrible, Lying, Cheating Douchebags Edition

Republicans To Hold Lame-Duck Session To Limit Tony Evers And Advance GOP Priorities
Eric Holder Says Wisconsin Republicans Risk Lawsuit Over Lame-Duck Plan
Scott Walker Decried Lame-Duck Session And Permanent Political Appointments In 2010
Wisconsin Republicans Are Bending Over Backward To Make Sure The Midterm Election Doesn't Count
Republicans Worked All Night To Limit Power Of Democratic Governor Elect Tony Evers
Lame-Duck Power Grabs Aren't New, But Republicans In Wisconsin And Michigan Are 'More Aggressive'
Wisconsin Gerrymandering Was Awesome
In Stunning Power Grab, Wisconsin Republicans Pass Bill Weakening Governor
Are Lame-Duck Sessions Undemocratic
'Democracy Dies...In The Early Morning Light' As Wisconsin GOP Rams Through 'Lame Duck Legislative Coup'
Wisconsin GOP Scheme To Keep Scott Walker As Zombie Governor
After Raucous Hearing, Bills To Restrict Early Voting, Curtail Evers' Powers Move To Full Legislature
Wisconsin Lawmakers Reject Bill To Protect Pre-Existing Conditions, Scale Back Democrats' Power

For Further Reading:
Paul Ryan Departing Washington In A Blaze Of Fraudulence
Let's Pour One Out For Paul Ryan, The Biggest. Fake. Ever.
Republican Gerrymandering Has Basically Destroyed Representative Democracy In Wisconsin

Paul Ryan: Hypocrite, Conman, Coward

Good Riddance To Paul Ryan And His Cowardice On Immigration

Paul Ryan Will Retire As The Biggest Fake In American Politics

A Scam Of A Party Says Goodbye To Its Top Fraud

Paul Ryan Decision To Wait Until January To Retire Includes An Under-The-Radar Benefit

Paul Ryan's Whole Career Was About Sticking It To The Poor And Elderly

Even Now, Paul Ryan Really Doesn't Want To Talk About Donald Trump

With 'Longtime Dream' Of Tax Cuts For Billionaires Fulfilled, Paul Ryan Won't Seek Reelection

The Tragedy Of Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Was A Failure, Even On His Own Terms

Paul Ryan Is Abandoning The Ship Before It Sinks

Fanatic, Fraud, Factotum: The Rise and Fall of Paul Ryan

The Man Who Killed Republican Reform

The Political and Very Personal Failure of Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Abandons the Sinking Ship

Late Night Wasn’t Sad to See House Speaker Paul Ryan Go

Paul Ryan fails and bails

House Speaker Paul Ryan was the biggest fraud in American politics

Weekend Reading

Foxconn Keeps Racking Up The Taxpayer Funded Help
Journal Sentinel Promotes Phony Foxconn "Report"
Scott Walker's Big Lie
Chevron Just Agreed In Court That Humans Cause Climate Change
Despite New Rules To Disclose Corporate Tax Breaks, Just Half Of Local Governments Are
Commuter Rail To Foxconn Proposed
Foxconn Industrial Operations Would Represent A Major New Source Of Air Pollution In Region
Paul Ryan Calls Eminent Domain Takeovers Wrong, But Won't Help Homeowners In Foxconn Case

Weekend Reading

Another Budget Trick From Lyin Ryan And Company
What Red States Are Passing Up As Blue States Get Billions
More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes...Why Do So Many Americans Believe The Opposite?
The Theory Behind Trump's Tax Cuts Is Exactly What Gave Us The Failed Bush Economy
Gov. Walker Endorses The Federal Tax Scam That Favors The Rich
Making America More Like Scandinavia
Who Wants To Market The Streetcar?
Don't Be Fooled By GOP Tax Reform Promises
Milwaukee's Riverwalk Earns Prestigious International Award
What More Evidence Of Collusion Do You Need?
Slippery Scott Is At It Again
GOP Bill Cuts Taxes For Private Jet Owners, Hikes Taxes On Students

Weekend Reading

Gun Violence In America, Explained In 17 Maps & Chart
White American Men Are A Bigger Domestic Terrorist Threat Than Muslim Foreigners
The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing
The Future of Wisconsin
How To Buy A University Department
County Must Pay $6.7 Million Verdict
America's Gun Fantasy
The Case Against Partisan Gerrymandering
Partisan Gerrymandering Got The Sotomayor Treatment
I-94 Cancellation Has Huge Impact
WisDOT Asks Feds To Rescind Decision For Controversial I-94 Expansion In Milwaukee
Let's Talk About Paul Ryan's Scorching Duplicity On Gun Violence, Mental Health, and, Well, Everything
The Republican Plan To Rob America

Medicaid's Last Stand

Trumpcare: Less About Health Care, More About Ideology

Fox News Takes The Words Right Out Of Trump's Mouth

Fox News host promoted by Trump calls on Paul Ryan to step down

Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose show President Trump urged his followers on Twitter to watch earlier in the day, opened her program on Saturday evening by calling on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to step down. 

"Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House. The reason, he failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill, the one trumpeted to repeal and replace ObamaCare," Pirro said in her opening statement.

Explaining Republican Policies Is Waste Of Paul Ryan's Time

My Sentiments Exactly

Lola Kirke Wore a ‘F*ck Paul Ryan’ Pin to the Golden Globes

Weekend Reading

Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Requires Education Campaign, Which The State Hasn't Funded
The End Of Research In Wisconsin
Six Achievements Of Obamacare
What Happens When Walmart Dumps You
How Federal Lending Programs Served As A Big Shadow Stimulus
Americans' Home Wealth Recovers $7 Trillion As Prices Firm
House Speaker Paul Ryan Becomes Leading Opponent Of DOL Fiduciary Rule
Republican Governed Red States Are Economic Parasites

GOP Zombies Lumber On

There is a zombie party, but it's not the GOP

"Dysfunction" was hardly the scene in the House last week as Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan took hold of the speaker's gavel — an act unthinkable even to Ryan just a few weeks prior. The young, attractive Ryan always has been seen as the future of the Republican Party, able to bridge the gap between the GOP's more ardent wing and those more interested in governing. (In the end, only seven of the Tea Party's "Freedom Caucus" members voted against Ryan, proving the group's opposition to Ryan was overblown.)

WOW. Talk about trying to polish a turd. Nobody revises history quite like the Republicans.

Even Schneider, in the article, writes that Ryan becoming speaker was unthinkable weeks ago. But the Republicans did what they do best when between a rock and a hard place, a well-staged photo opportunity. Hence, even Schneider doesn't have much more to say about Ryan other than "young, attractive." Ryan's previous attempts at serious policy analysis have been shown to be nothing more than flim flam.

For the past few weeks (more so than usual), dysfunction was the entire scene for the Republicans. 20 or so presidential candidates, a Tea Party caucus holding the rest of the party hostage, and seemingly no one wanting to become the new speaker.

Paul Ryan was the only Republican left that the party felt the public may actually pay some attention to at this point. Because Ryan and Rubio are younger, the Republican party is alive and well, according to Schneider.

Schneider details how the Republican party still has a hold on America and the demise of the party is premature:

In fact, Republicans — y'know, the party that has ceased to function — currently hold majorities in the U.S. House, Senate and claim 31 governorships.

He forgets to mention much of this is due to gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics. For Schneider, just like his new hero Paul Ryan, details aren't that important.

I know this is the Republican playbook - claim the opposite of reality and always act as if everything is just what the Republicans planned and wanted (and Schneider's sole purpose is to regurgitate some version of this fantasy in every article he writes). But, aren't even the conservatives getting tired of the willful distortion of reality?

Wisconsin Reading

Wisconsin Sinks In Job, Wage Growth Rankings
Wisconsin Roads Third-Worst In Nation
Does City Violence Deserve High-Level Meetings Like Arena?
Think Wisconsin Doesn't Rely On Gambling? Think Again
Scott Walker Is The Absolute Worst
What Makes Scott Walker Run?
$4.9 Million In WEDC Loans Delinquent
Wisconsin On Pace For Most Layoff Notifications Of Walker Administration In 2015
Paul Ryan Loves Talking About Poverty, But He Keeps Getting The Basic Facts Wrong
Scott Walker Has A Plan To Crush What's Left Of Labor Unions In America

Weekend Reading

Paul Ryan Declares War Against Math
The Remarkable Impact Of The Deep Tunnel
Corporate Deadbeats: How Companies Get Rich Off Taxes
Return Of The Bums On Welfare
Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages, And Skill Mismatches: Evidence For The U.S.
Rep. Paul Ryan's Whopper About Competitive Districts
Why Public Investment Really Is A Free Lunch
Unlike Walmart, Costco Has No Plans To Cut Employee Health Benefits
The Koch Brothers' War On Transit
Wisconsin Supreme Court Vs John Doe

How About Giving Your Employees A Raise, You Deluded Nitwit?!

Weekend Reading

How We Built The Ghettos
Basic Wine Guide
Dozens of Planes Have Vanished in Post-WWII Era

Chris Abele vetoes Milwaukee County 'living-wage' measure

Wisconsin GOP Introduces Bill To Thwart Dark Money Investigation

Paul Ryan Confronted At Town Hall Over Inner-City Poverty

Science Deniers Are Freaking Out About “Cosmos”

Disasters Cost More Than Ever — But Not Because of Climate Change

The Chartbook of Economic Inequality

The New Paul Ryan
New Champion Of The City

Weekend Reading

Budget Bunko
Don't Blame The Work Force
Hey Paul Ryan - We All Depend On Government
Milwaukee, Madison Among Nation's Brainiest
Paul Ryan Hilariously Pretends To Care About Poor People
State Skills Gap Myth Gets Shot Down Again
Union Membership Rate For U.S. Tumbles To New Low
Why Walker Opposes Obamacare

Wisconsin Reading

Amid 1,000 Layoffs In Wisconsin, Scott Walker Gets No Love From U.S. Chamber 

Other critics, though, say the job cuts suggest that waging war on public-sector worker unions, cutting funding for public education and proclaiming the state “open for business” won’t magically turn Wisconsin into a new economy powerhouse. 

“What it says to me is that political rhetoric is irrelevant,” says Jack Norman, past research director at the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future. 

Norman says companies make hiring and other decisions based on demand for their products and whether they can do business better in a different location. The effect of government policies is somewhere on the fringe, he says. 

On the other hand, Norman says one could argue the cuts to public worker take-home pay and other cost-savings measures under Walker have actually made Wisconsin’s economy worse. Here is a graphic showing job growth in Wisconsin before and after he took office. 

“I think we’re seeing a local version of the austerity vs. investment debate going on across the capitalist world,” says Norman. “And right now, some countries are getting rid of their austerity policies because they aren’t working.” 

Wisconsin Business Tax Burden Ranked No. 35

Just Follow The Streetcar Track Of Money

Republicans Move To Kill Milwaukee Streetcar

Light rail from downtown Milwaukee to Waukesha? Republicans at the state killed it. 

Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee (KRM) commuter rail? Republicans at the state killed it. 

Extending the Amtrak Hiawatha Service to Madison at 110 mph (with stops in Brookfield and Watertown)? Republicans at the state killed it. 

Building a maintenance base for trainsets the state had already purchased from Talgo? Republicans at the state killed it. 

Rebuilding the train shed at Milwaukee Intermodal Station? Republicans rejected federal funds to fix the non-ADA compliant shed and are now left with a situation that will cost Wisconsinites millions. 

A streetcar starter system in downtown Milwaukee? Republicans killed it. 

The common link? All the projects were proposed by Democrats, had a presence in the City of Milwaukee, and involved steel wheels on steel rails. 

Since becoming Governor in 2010, Scott Walker will have effectively rejected over $1 billion in federal money for rail transportation projects. The loss of high-speed rail funds to connect Chicago, Madison, and Milwaukee represent $823 million. The KRM funds would have beenat least $140 million. Assuming Walker (who has made clear his opposition to the Milwaukee streetcar) ultimately supports the amendment proposed by the Joint Finance Committee, he will also be rejecting $54.9 million for the Milwaukee Streetcar, which is the last of a $289 million 1991 federal grant.

In Rail-Free Wisconsin, More Good News Selling-Points

Alternatives Offered To Gov. Scott Walker's Proposal To End Residency Rules

The Fiscal Bureau reports that case law is on the side of Milwaukee on the subject of residency, noting that the U.S. Supreme Court and various state courts "have tended to uphold the constitutionality of the municipal residency requirements, generally siding with the public interests of governments and its policy reasons for such requirements."

State Budget Panel OKs Residency Rule Based On Distance

Sweeping aside a 75-year-old City of Milwaukee residency ordinance and others like it, Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee voted Thursday to allow police and firefighters to live at least 15 miles outside of any community in the state and bar utility ratepayers from having to bear any costs for a proposed streetcar in the city - potentially killing the project. 

On several votes Thursday, the Joint Finance Committee loaded up the state budget with policy items that had little to do with Wisconsin's finances. Many of the other policy items also limited the powers of local governments, such as a measure barring them from regulating the size of sodas.

GOP fakes up a controversy over the UW system's financial reserves

Opposition Group Zones In On Walmart's New Berlin Plans (Other Walmart reading: 1, 2, 3, 4)

The Facts Are In And Paul Ryan Is Wrong