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Recent Tweets, 11.27 to 12.3

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Tommy Thompson as Wisconsin’s Mitt Romney | Waukesha Wonk bit.ly/s0m2gY
2 Dec

Favoring well-funded groups: Walker Admin would charge protesters for police, cleanup – JSOnline bit.ly/s5D0Gp
1 Dec

“@BorowitzReport: In a sign that he is losing focus, today Herman Cain could not remember the last number of his 9-9-9 plan.”
1 Dec

DAILY WISCONSIN » GOP Sens. Jim DeMint and Rand Paul tell Wisconsin’s Conservative Bloggers to Go to Hell bit.ly/vFO2AH
29 Nov

Certain trend: Gannett’s Sheboygan Press story comments switching to Facebook shebpr.es/u5ClJO
29 Nov

Trees die for this: @ChrisRickertWSJ: Everyone must participate for lake cleaning effort to succeed dlvr.it/yB3W1
29 Nov

Presidential race 2012

On Herman Cain’s Campaign

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Sadly, yes:

Steve Schmidt, who managed Arizona Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential race, offered a far harsher assessment of the Cain moment.

“That Cain’s candidacy was taken seriously for longer than a nano-second in a time of genuine crisis for the country raises fundamental questions about the health of the political process and the Republican party,” Schmidt said.

Via The Washington Post.

Education

Disability rights advocates warn of special education cuts

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Balancing the budget on the backs of the vulnerable:

The Survival Coalition of Wisconsin Disability Group sent a letter this week to federal education officials and members of the states congressional delegation, urging them to stick with federal rules requiring school districts not to reduce the amount of money they spend on special education.

Via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

See, also CESA 1 letter in favor of waiving federal safeguards for the disabled and Survival Coalition of Wisconsin Disability Group letter supporting existing safeguards.

Cross-posted at Daily Wisconsin.

Comment Forum

Weekend Poll & Comment Forum: What’s your favorite holiday song?

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It’s December — already — and Thanksgiving’s just a pleasant memory. However enjoyable that day (and it is), there are (to my knowledge) no popular Thanksgiving songs. Thanksgiving is a quiet holiday. The same cannot be said of Christmas (a naturally more exuberant holiday), or anything in December, for that matter. This is not a quiet month.

What’s your favorite holiday song? I’ve a poll with a few possibilities (from a list of popular radio songs), and space for comments to this post.


Comments will be moderated against profanity or trolls, but otherwise have at it.

My favorite: O Holy Night.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 12.2.11

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Good morning.

Whitewater’s Christmas parade is tonight at 6 PM, and the day beforehand will be sunny with a high temperature of thirty-six.

The Wisconsin Historical Society remembers one of Wisconsin’s lowest moments:

1954 – McCarthy Censured by Senate

On December 2, 1954, the United States Senate voted to censure Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. Declaring his behavior “contrary to senatorial traditions,” the 1954 Senate resolution officially condemned McCarthy’s reign of anti-communist terror.

I wouldn’t call his conduct a reign of terror, but an abuse of political power worthy of censure, surely.

 

Presidential race 2012

Gingrich: Poor Children Have “No Habits of Working”

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Somewhere tonight, Gov. Romney’s smiling:

“Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed.

“They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it is illegal,” he added.

Via Fox News