Posted on Tue, Mar 16th 2010 at 12:03 PM by Bruce

What a sick bunch of lying liars. Byron York writes:

“If you have any doubt that the Democratic leadership of the House views passing the current health care reform bill as the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system, just note what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers on Monday. “My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive,” Pelosi said, according to an account by Washington Post reform advocate Ezra Klein. “We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there’ll be more legislation to follow.”

Pelosi told the bloggers she favors using the “self-executing rule” strategy in which the House would pass the Senate health care bill without going on the record as specifically voting for it. “I like it,” Pelosi said of the scheme, “because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.”

Pelosi argued that the debate over health care reform can begin after the bill is passed. “Pelosi said passing the bill would allow Dems to undertake a ‘debate’ with Republicans over ‘what is the balanced role that government should have,’” writes another pro-reform blogger at the Post, Greg Sargent. According to Sargent, Pelosi explained, “We have to take it to the American people, to say, this is the choice that you have. This is the vision that they have for your health and well being, and this is the vision that we have.” Again, in Pelosi’s scenario, that debate would occur after the bill is passed.

In the end, the Speaker declared, “I have no intention of not passing this bill.”

So much for that “solid up or down vote” Mr. Obama called for last week, eh? What could possibly be more solid than “deeming” bad legislation into law? This is devolving into outrage.

Writing at NRO, Charles Krauthammer weighs in on the matter:

“This is Alice in Wonderland stuff. This is Twilight Zone. As I read Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution, it says a law “shall have passed” the House and the Senate, not “shall have been deemed to have passed.”

It’s [being done] because here the Democrats are about to change one-sixth of the American economy and demanding ostensibly an up-or-down vote — but are so unwilling to actually have it voted on, that they want to have it deemed accepted in a vote on the rule.

You have an issue of democratic decency: It is rare enough, unusual enough, and really indecent enough to change a sixth of the American economy with a bill that has not a single support from Republicans.

But to do it by a procedure which doesn’t even approve of the bill itself is simply staggering.”

Many years from now, when you and your children mark the very moment that your personal freedoms were pried under great protest from your hands, by a group of kleptocrats too tyrannical and power-drunk to care, remember how this happened.

And remember precisely whom it was that did this to you.

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Posted on Sun, Mar 14th 2010 at 09:03 PM by Bruce

Wonder no more. Here it is, folks, in its 2300 page glory.

It’s late on a Sunday - first night of DST 2010 - and, quite candidly, I’m spent.

Feel free to tear in to this monstrosity and comment, if you wish. We’ll take a closer look tomorrow; although I suspect, at this point, we’re powerless to derail it.

(h/t: Michelle Malkin, via Twitter.)

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Posted on Sun, Mar 14th 2010 at 01:03 PM by Bruce

Yes, in spite of the AP’s “bombshell” headline, you read my analysis correctly. Totally unbelievable, isn’t it? The AP spin machine isn’t wasting any time setting its sights on Scott Walker.

In a remarkable waste of text, concocted in an apparent attempt to prove “hypocrisy” on the part of Walker and his campaign staffers, the AP concludes that the $24,500.00 in “food related expenses” the Walker campaign reported in its finance reports “contradicts Walker’s central campaign message.”

But the AP bases its conclusion on an analysis of Walker’s data from “the second half of 2008,” and all of 2009; focusing only on data from the “last half of 2009″ for Barrett.

Using the AP’s own numbers, a savvy reader might note that $24,500.00 spent over 547.5 days shakes out to $44.75 per day, and $10,000.00 spent over 182.5 days would be $54.79 per day.

Even an MPS graduate would know that $54.79 is more than $44.75, right? So why isn’t the headline “Barrett outspends Walker on food?” Your guess is as good as mine.

What’s more cowardly than a press pool hit piece that a reporter won’t even attach his or her own name to? It’s the ultimate sucker punch, and this one reeks to me of something dropped on some AP loyalist by some agenda-driven union hack, pushing for a non-story to become a headline. (And speaking of agenda-driven union hacks who specialize in ginning-up fake anti-Walker news, I have one in mind as I type this.)

And to the AP hack who would take crappy bait like this and run with it, congrats on some real courageous journalism. Pieces like this are why you won’t have a job in 3 years. Have fun at Alterra, frothing milk for lattes.

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Posted on Sat, Mar 13th 2010 at 06:03 PM by Patrick Dorwin

Tomorrow Sunday, March 14, 2010 there is a Taxpayer Rally with Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch from 1:00pm - 3:15pm at the Rosebud Theater, located at 6823 W North Ave, Wauwatosa, WI.

I’ll be there!

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Posted on Fri, Mar 12th 2010 at 06:03 AM by Patrick Dorwin

It’s all yours, what’s on your mind?

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Posted on Fri, Mar 12th 2010 at 06:03 AM by Patrick Dorwin

Someone within the Milwaukee Police Department tipped me off to this posting on an internal MPD website.

During sub w/gun call at Washington High School, responding squads were unable to communicate with other units onscene or dispatch. Squads onscene either were unable to transmit, or what they were able to transmit was so garbled it was useless. During this assignment a subject with a gun was indeed found inside the school. This was a a complete failure of this system during a critical incident. This not only put the lives and safety of responding officers at risk, but an entire school full of staff and students. Responding officers had to commandeer school safety guards radios to maintain any level of communication.

What if this would have been a case of a Columbine type situation, our police officers wouldn’t even be able to talk to each other. OpenSky is going to get someone killed!

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Posted on Thu, Mar 11th 2010 at 12:03 PM by Roland_Melnick

Over the past 6 days, we’ve witnessed the media blitz surrounding the arrest of Joel Hoffman, also known as Joel Lynch. There isn’t much being kept secret anymore as this Milwaukee County Circuit Court criminal complaint describing NINE criminal counts alleges.

Badger Blogger has spoken with members of the Milwaukee Police Department regarding Hoffman. While appropriately tight-lipped over sensitive details of the investigation, they did share some disturbing revelations about Hoffman and changes within the Milwaukee Police Department that possibly enabled Hoffman to continue his crime spree.

Source: WISN.com

Hoffman was arrested at the Suburban Motel, 4600 South 27th Street in Milwaukee. A hotel with cheap rooms that attracts fugitives looking to “lay low.” When arrested, it was learned that Hoffman had apparently persuaded a gullible girlfriend, NOT the one he lived with, to rent the room on his behalf. The same woman my sources believe may have been hiding the now infamous black Dodge Charger. Hoffman’s arrest, which occurred on March 5th, 2010, was originally for the incident reported near the intersection of Maryland and Kenwood adjacent to the UWM campus.

Hoffman’s cool car…a late model black Dodge Charger has since been recovered by police and it sounds as though, if they can find a way, they may just roll it into the courtroom as State’s exhibit #1. As you read the nine count criminal complaint, you learn that it has proven to be a common evidentiary thread that has helped to tie these separate attacks occurring at separate locations and times together.

Source: cars.com

As if nine counts weren’t enough, WTMJ 4 and 620AM reported yesterday that a woman watching the media coverage now believes Hoffman is the guy who attacked her several months ago. According to the report, the woman, Sheri Storm, said she recognized the photo of Hoffman on television reports. After learning that Hoffman owns a black Charger, her confidence level shot up to 100%. According to an MPD source, directly after the incident, Storm reported her attacker drove a late model black Dodge Charger and believed the license plate to be “918KMS.” Hoffman’s actual Wisconsin plate number is “918NMS.”

Obviously, Sheri Storm did an admirable job of maintaining her composure and providing useful information that should have provided enough for police to act upon. My question is this: Having an accurate description of the car and a license plate that was merely one digit off, why didn’t the MPD identify Hoffman in the assault of Sheri Storm? Apparently, Storm’s assault was investigated by patrol officers, not investigators dedicated to this type of crime from the department’s Sensitive Crimes Division. An emerging trend, say sources, put in place by Chief Ed Flynn.

I couldn’t believe my ears. A stranger approaches a woman on a public street and sexually assaults her; detailed information which should have made this case very solvable is available, and the MPD doesn’t have a Sensitive Crimes investigator on hand to follow through with the case? How is this possible?

Read the rest of this entry…

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Posted on Wed, Mar 10th 2010 at 04:03 PM by Patrick Dorwin

Wauwatosa – Tomorrow, Scott Walker, Milwaukee County executive and candidate for governor, will air his first TV ad called “Salary,” highlighting Scott and Tonette Walker’s decision to give back $370,000 of Scott’s salary to the taxpayers. The ad will air across Wisconsin.

“Tonette and I made decision to give back $370,000 of my salary because we believe it’s time to cut government waste and fundamentally change the way government does business,” said Walker. “Our campaign is about every day Wisconsin families worried about their jobs and family budgets, and who are sick and tired of politicians who think it’s OK to waste taxpayer money and grow government.”

For more, go to BrownBagMovement.com.

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Posted on Wed, Mar 10th 2010 at 03:03 PM by Patrick Dorwin

Via Charlie Sykes we learn that Sheriff David Clarke is calling out Sen. Lena “don’t you know who I am?” Taylor for using her official state email to send a “Legislative Alert” to advertise a Health & Beauty Seminar… Some of us would call that SPAM.

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Posted on Wed, Mar 10th 2010 at 03:03 PM by Patrick Dorwin

Dan Bice brings us word of a rift between the District Attorneys Office and the Milwaukee Police Department over the issue of vote fraud in the last presidential election. This is an issue we and other conservative bloggers and news sources covered heavily. The District Attorney and at least one alderman turned over to police a lot of information, but MPD investigators haven’t done much with the information, and Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf fears that the delay has already harmed chances of prosecution in some cases.

Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, the Milwaukee County prosecutor responsible for overseeing campaign and election issues.

“Honestly, the Milwaukee Police Department largely ignored your double voter (and other) referrals received in January 2009 for the first six months of 2009,” Landgraf wrote in an e-mail to a city elections official on Jan. 26.

Speaking with unguarded candor, the veteran prosecutor said in his note that MPD’s tardy response had a major impact. The cases involve voters who may have cast more than one ballot, felons who may have voted illegally and other cases of possible election fraud.

“Sadly, several probable cases of genuine voter fraud were harmed by that delay,” Landgraf wrote in an e-mail obtained through an open records request.

The assistant district attorney was even more pessimistic about the investigation of more than 500 individuals who registered to vote on election day but whose addresses could not be confirmed later by postcard.

“I do not expect them to ever get to the Address Cards,” he said of the Milwaukee cops.

The Milwaukee Police Department spokesperson, Annie Schwartz says that the investigations are still ongoing, and they haven’t received anything from the District Attorneys Office concerning the delay.

I think Chief Flynn needs to take vote fraud seriously, we all remember the 2004 Voter Fraud Investigation that was leaked to the media soon after Flynn became chief. It seems that since those responsible for this report were “reassigned,” MPD hasn’t taken vote fraud seriously… That needs to change.

Alderman James Witkowiak also turned over to MPD, evidence of vote fraud and has issued this statement, calling for answers.
Witkowiak Voter fraud probe statement

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