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Someone Take Away Terry Moulton's Car Keys

In what’s supposed to be a good year for Republican candidates, it seems the best advice you can give to a few them is to just stay home.  Ride the political wave… from your easy chair.  Avoid travel. Let Vox Popoli speak for you.  Or if you absolutely must go someplace, for the love of God, keep your mouth shut lest you put your foot in it. 
 
The more Terry Moulton speaks, the more his party bosses must wince in Madison.
 

Primary Colors: Red and Blue

It's that time again. What happened to Summer?  And all the weekends we had to planned to finish our yards but instead wasted on golf, fishing and imprompto family get togethers? Summer up here needs to be another 6-8 weeks long in order to actually have time to do what we planned on doing (like regularly updating this blog). Anyway...

GOP To Small Business: Drop Dead

 

A lie repeated enough becomes the truth to many.  Such is the case with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and claims that it's just another "liberal mouthpiece."  (Seriously, are there any liberal newspapers left outside of the Capital Times... and that's not even a newspaper anymore, just an online shell of its former self.)  Still, this morning's full width Page One headline trumpeted the misery of small business owners with a lead paragraph worthy of gold stars from Faux News:

Cheese is getting expensive

"Big Political Cheese" got its name in honor of all those Cheeseheads who love a little politics with their lives in America's Dairyland.  But that political cheese is getting more and more expensive.  The latest report studying state Supreme Court elections across the country shows that spending on those races doubled in the past decade.

What do you mean "Off Year?"

The talking heads on the cable channels love to talk about this being an "off year" for elections, their way of describing the midterms when there's no big Presidential race for them to follow.  It's more difficult to follow the 37 elections for governor, the (coincidentally) 37 U.S. Senate seat races, 435 Congressional campaigns and all the state legislative races.

Our State Fair is... Politics Central!

Big Political Cheese was created because there’s a lot of politickin’ going on beyond Madison, Milwaukee and the AM radio dial.  And this week’s Northern Wisconsin State Fair proves it.

Guns in Wisconsin after McDonald v. Chicago

 

 

 

Defining a Progressive Ideal is easy.  Some look no further than this:

Passing a Progressive law that has a chance of survival in today's political environment is a trickier endeavor.

Hypocrisy Already?

It's now officially summertime of an even-numbered year.  That means it’s time for the political noise machines to screech back to life.

I’ll admit political machines can occasionally be entertaining and sometimes produce something positive. For the most part the output is just whining noises, half-truths and tired spin trying to find anything that will stick to their opponents. 

One of our jobs here at Big Political Cheese is to examine the cacophonous whine and provide a useful translation for the masses that, you know, have lives.