tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post7057594421203846296..comments2024-03-28T05:47:44.752-05:00Comments on RIFLES AT DAWN: "This Will Not Stand"....or, will it?Tim Morrisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00457723301178870851noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-15000802261222994582011-03-14T12:30:01.960-05:002011-03-14T12:30:01.960-05:00JCG,
Collective bargaining power (not "right...JCG,<br /><br />Collective bargaining power (not "rights") for public union employees will not turn out to be a winning issue for Democrats, in my humble yet deadly accurate opinion. The turnover in the state house in January was too large to be swamped by this.<br /><br />The Town Crank<br />NeenahSteve Erbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065643506800242801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-82002331249464767882011-03-14T11:33:21.422-05:002011-03-14T11:33:21.422-05:00Yah, I can smell them, just like they could be sme...Yah, I can smell them, just like they could be smelled out while in the Capitol building.<br /><br />Could smell them all the way to Wisconsin Dells.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-45004101208158636772011-03-14T10:18:46.527-05:002011-03-14T10:18:46.527-05:00Dad29 wrote "I would be open-carrying when I ...Dad29 wrote "I would be open-carrying when I answered the door."<br /><br />Does this nut normally parade around the house wearing a pistol? Or is he able to smell these OFA canvassers coming?Hieronymous Knickerbockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17595084830114588686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-47325971242507532842011-03-13T13:51:01.543-05:002011-03-13T13:51:01.543-05:00No OFA canvassers showed up.
And my recollection...No OFA canvassers showed up. <br /><br />And my recollection of the post was that I would be open-carrying when I answered the door.<br /><br />Leads to "brown-short" syndrome for a lot of canvassers, you know.<br /><br />If you can dredge up a quote in which I specifically state that I would 'shoot them,' please do so.<br /><br />150K? Even the LeftOWacky Madistan cop-shop guessed <100K. About what you'd need in signatures to begin recall of 5 Pubbie Senators.<br /><br />It ain't gonna happen. Or (hedging the bet), if it DOES happen, it'll wind up as horse-trading. Darling loses, but so does Holperin.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-51754723964852809562011-03-12T21:09:52.528-06:002011-03-12T21:09:52.528-06:00@Dad29: I remember you writing death threats on a ...@Dad29: I remember you writing death threats on a blog about a year and a half ago, threatening to shoot any OFA canvassers that might dare knock on your door. So, do you not know the back from the front of a gun, or did you just in the end not have the balls? From all your fomenting all over the blogosphere comment boards, I get the sense you're one of those chickenhawk keyboard commandos, so your projection here is pretty amusing.<br /><br />Also, as far as this issue being "dead, dead, dead": don't you wish it'd just go away. Unfortunately for you I have a picture of me and 150,000 of my closest friends gathered on the square today that says otherwise.JCGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-52592489784998196652011-03-11T23:45:58.878-06:002011-03-11T23:45:58.878-06:00Man, I am as overdosed as anyone at this point. I...Man, I am as overdosed as anyone at this point. I am embarrassed by the people who call themselves journalists. They used to teach a thing, called "being objective." I hope this period passes into history just as "yellow journalism did." I know we have to get our citizenry interested in national(and world)policy, but this type of posturing the events of the day is a bad joke. I call it, "Pro wrestling Journalism."Ty O'Maranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-39081900390587033952011-03-11T16:48:54.925-06:002011-03-11T16:48:54.925-06:00Frankly, I'd be surprised if ANY of the recall...Frankly, I'd be surprised if ANY of the recall efforts succeed. This issue is dead, dead, dead.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-6159287519187461922011-03-11T13:16:49.573-06:002011-03-11T13:16:49.573-06:00jb,
Recall petitions require an enormous number o...jb,<br /><br />Recall petitions require an enormous number of signatures...at least an order of magnitude more than the candidate himself has to gather to get his name on the ballot: 25% of the number of votes cast in the most recent election.<br /><br />So determining whether the "political system is broken" based on whether recall efforts get past the petitioning process or not isn't really a fair gauge of its brokenness.<br /><br />The Town Crank<br />NeenahSteve Erbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065643506800242801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-31284121038703366692011-03-11T12:36:12.388-06:002011-03-11T12:36:12.388-06:00Recall is a legitimate remedy not to be deployed l...Recall is a legitimate remedy not to be deployed lightly, and it's pretty clear that a significant slice of the electorate thinks it's valid in this case. But if they don't follow through--if the energy dissipates and the gov signed this morning becomes the new normal-- that'll be more evidence to me that the political system is broken. It's one thing to talk, but you've also got to walk.jbhttp://jabartlett.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-51150339489612520122011-03-11T12:10:46.235-06:002011-03-11T12:10:46.235-06:00Fortunately, most of the "death threat"-...Fortunately, most of the "death threat"-eners don't know the front from the back of a gun or combat knife.<br /><br />If they really did, they'd not waste time and pixels writing out asinine screeds. They'd just go shoot someone.<br /><br />They don't have the balls.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-39415508740640499272011-03-11T12:10:44.250-06:002011-03-11T12:10:44.250-06:00Colonel,
>> I’d rather be governed by the f...Colonel,<br /><br />>> I’d rather be governed by the first 132 names in the UW Faculty directory than the 132 dweebs in the state legislature. <<<br /><br />Heh! Considering that they're mostly probably Democrats, that ought to be pretty comfortable, eh?<br /><br />Re: Ann Althouse, definitely right-leaning. She's another <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blogspot blogger</a>.<br /><br />>> But I think it’s going to get one hell of a lot hotter around here before we know what stands and what doesn’t. <<<br /><br />I'm re-reading "John Adams" by David McCullough. I wonder how our current tsourris will compare with the political strife around the turn of the 19th century.<br /><br />The Town Crank<br />NeenahSteve Erbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065643506800242801noreply@blogger.com