Chris Larson or Chris Abele?

The County Exec looks to be open at this point.  Chris Abele has outspent his opponent by 2-1 and still lost in the Primary by a slim margin. 

Why is it so close between two Democrats?

Chris Abele has been spending a ton of money trying to show all of the great things that he has done for Milwaukee County.  How he has saved the Milwaukee Bucks, Helped Single Fathers, Improved about everything in the County. 

Chris Larson hasn't had to spend a whole lot of money to get his point across.  The nightly news stories do it all for him.  He then just has to pound the point home in speeches.  Abele's personal vendetta against Sheriff Clark has proven an obstacle Abele hasn't been able to answer.  Crime is skyrocketing in the County and Abele keeps taking money away from the Sheriff.  He claims he is making law enforcement better.  He tried to take away law enforcement duties of the Airport from the Sheriff, taking away manpower, taking away funding.  By the way did you see the big crime spree at the Airport Recently?  How about the disaster at the Mitchell Domes?  How about the concrete falling off the Milwaukee County Courthouse? 

Larson doesn't need to spend money to show the unaddressed problems in Milwaukee County.  The News does it for him.  Abele decided to be an opponent of the Sheriff instead of working with him to better the County.  Now he has real problems and no real help. 

Russ Feingold Doesn't Remember Trying to Stop a Supreme Court Nominee

It just totally amazes me how politicians from both parties forget so quickly how they treated the other side when they had the power.  Now it appears that the Democrats forgot all about how they treated then President Bush when he had a Nominee to the Supreme Court.

Now conveniently President Obama himself says that he regrets trying to hold up Bush's nominee when he was a Senator.  Russ Feingold even seems to forget.

Right Wisconsin:

Feingold said it’s “irresponsible not to consider” a nomination to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama. He also said to Gousha about considering Supreme Court nominees when he was a senator, “In all cases, we ended up in an expeditious manner, taking up full consideration of them.”

I have said it many times, be careful how you act and do things when you have the power, because it will come back and haunt you when you don't.   If it is OK for you to act one way when you have power, then you better be ready to suck it up when you don't and the other side does the exact same thing back to you.

The Democrats are all up in arms now that there is an opening on the Supreme Court and Republicans have the power to stop any nomination by President Obama.  They just can't believe that anyone would attempt to do that.  How wrong it is.  How un-American it is.  How downright spiteful it is.  Yeah, forget that we did it.  Forget that we were wrong, forget how un-American we were, forget how spiteful we were.  Now it matters.

Right Wisconsin:

Of course, in 2007 Feingold didn’t have any issue with Congress sitting on Bush’s appointments until after the president left office. As the Weekly Standard points out, “In late 2007, the Harry Reid-led Senate had a backlog of more than 200 appointments that it had failed to act on, including dozens of judges. In order to prevent Bush from filling any of those slots with recess appointments, Reid started holding 30 second ‘pro-forma’ sessions over the holidays so the Senate would technically be in session and the president would be constitutionally prohibited from making recess appointments.”

Feingold issued not one word of protest at the time about how Democratic senators were not doing their jobs “on behalf of the American people.” It wasn’t even the election year yet and Feingold did not talk about the sacred duty of the Senate to consider the president’s nominations or the importance of not waiting two years to fill these vacancies.

It sure would be nice to see real adults in Washington who care more about US, The American People than their party of choice.