Target shooters refer to putting all 10 shots into the Ten-Ring of the bullseye as “shooting a Possible,” i.e,, achieving the best score one can.
There were 27 house seats that the “experts” rated as toss ups in the recent election. Republican won every one of them—not 10 out of 10, 27 out of 27. There was no blue wave, except in a handful of urban areas where logistical failures related to stocks of preprinted votes caused delays in ballot counting.
These days, I’m only cleared for local rumor, so I’m not sure about the reliability of the various hints, leaks, and innuendos swirling around the legal challenges to the questionable vote counts in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. However, I’m probably safe in predicting that while all those case won’t be settled this week, we will see actual hard news about them that will be interesting.
BTW, when the Biden family began working with Chinese investors, did anyone inform them of the Chinese curse that goes, “May you live in interesting times!”?
What in Joe Biden’s background could cause anyone to suspect him of being connect to an election corruption scheme?
And Donald Trump’s America contains the following:
Kate Brown’s Oregon which contains
Ted Wheeler’s Portland
Jay Insee’s Washington which contains
Jenny Durkan’s Seattle
Gavin Newsom’ California which contains
Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles and
London Breed’s San Francisco
J. B. Pritzker’s Illinois which contains
Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago
Andrew Cuomo’s New York which contains
Bill de Blasio’s New York City
Tony Evers’ Wisconsin which contains
John Antaramian’s Kenosha
In fact, Trump’s America contains 50 states with thousands of their own political subdivisions over which the President of the United States has no direct control of local affairs—but the local elected officials should. Whether local officials do or not exercise control or whether they are effective or not is generally not a federal question.
M. D. Kittle reports that the Wisconsin prosecutors who have been running the politically inspired John Doe investigations against various conservative organizations are not having a good time.
Some say the prosecutors, not used to being on the defensive, are sounding a little nervous these days, maybe even hostile. Their filings in federal court of late come across as condescending, and testy.
Read the whole thing.
Governor Walker has ordered the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to keep state parks and recreational facilities open that the National Park Service had ordered closed. (H/T, Ed Morrissey)
Walker has blamed both the Democrats and the Republicans for the federal shutdown. The feds have closed access to large swaths of public land in the state, but Walker is keeping any jointly funded properties or areas where the state has an operating agreement opened. For example, the state DNR reopened a boat launching ramp at a state park on the Mississippi River. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service closed the ramp because the river bank is federal land. The DNR took down the barrycades at the landing, claiming that it had authority to operate the ramp under a 1961 agreement.
Pushback.
Good.
The polls look good for Gov. Walker. I hope we are offering congratulations this evening.
While I was looking around for news and comments about today’s recall, my eye was caught by the headline on a piece at Via Meadia containing these words: NY Times in Panic Mode. Read it. It’s not long, but it condenses an explanation of why we outside Wisconsin should care about today’s vote.
A generation of activists and “progressives” raised on Howard Zinn is having an important life experience in Wisconsin. The “people united” are defeated more often than not in American politics. The silent majority isn’t itching for the “genuinely progressive” candidates and platforms lefties think they want. (That majority also isn’t looking for candidates from the doctrinaire right, either, by the way.)
… A Scott Walker victory would reshape not just Republican politics but Democratic politics as well; leaders like Andrew Cuomo in New York and Rahm Emmanuel in Chicago will be paying attention. If Walker wins handily, more Democrats will see the writing on the wall: Support for public sector unions simply isn’t the political winner it once was. This could presage a larger post-blue shift in the Democratic party for decades to come.
Moreover, a solid victory by Scott Walker with a margin even better than the polls predict will spread the panic from the Times to Obama reelection headquarters in Chicago.
Good luck, Governor!