Why, yes, I WILL have that breakfast beer – which in my time zone, is 1800-ish. And on vacation. I’ll have a few for everyone!

Rope Wars – The Tuggening. I don’t know what’s cuter – those dogs or the video title! Anyway, it sure takes the edge off knowing our country is driving off a cliff.

$30 million here $30 million there. Maybe someday the Kochs will just pay their fucking taxes.

A lot of money can do wonders. Of course it helps to remember that Romney doesn’t have the charisma and appeal that Walker does. Or a peice of dry toast, for that matter.
Thanks for the pups though judging from the subsequent photos of the boys they have spent the time following this tuggening resting and recuperating.

Of course it helps to remember that Romney doesn’t have the charisma and appeal that Walker does.

All too true. The Marquis really could use a little Elvis, but…it just doesn’t come naturally to Mormons, to him in particular. In point of fact Mitt Romney makes Newt Gingrich look like Kanye West on the cool/hip/charisma scale. Which is actually quite an accomplishment.

Of course, the basic premise is flawed because from what I’ve seen Scott Walker has all the charisma, appeal and charm of your average pet turtle. But $30 mil will buy a lot of pseudo-charisma in the form of negative advertising.

Trouble for cheeseheads is that they’re used to a certain level of government services, not to mention government openness. By the time Walker gets done turning Wisconsin into Arizona, there just might be a teensy bit of buyer remorse.

Walker 2016!

Of course it helps to remember that Romney doesn’t have the charisma and appeal that Walker does.

Uh, you have seen Walker speak – correct? Not that Rmoney is any competition.

I can’t look at the koch-twit without seeing the scene from Blazing Saddles where Mel Brooks is fooling around behind the curtains with the redhead then sticks his head out all cross-eyed and incoherent.

Repugs did lose a state senate seat though I’m sure they’ll be pissants and challenge the results. In any case I hope we can hold them off long enough for the feds to indict. It never ends, this shit…

actually the lesson is, playing with your dogs is more important and fulfilling than participating in the farce we know as electoral politics.

That Chuck Todd is an awesome intellect, isn’t he? To think we lived in the same era. Gosh.

After my initial dismay and a round of WTF-ing, I’ve come to the sad realization that the Wisconsin result confirms that Democracy (as defined in America, by Americans, for Americans only — nobody else try this at home, we’re trained constitutional morons) is healthier than ever. After all, Wisconsin voted for Walker the first time ’round, and by doing so yet again after seeing him in action, the people of Wisconsin simply restated their apparent masochistic tendency with a defiant cry of, “yes, master, strike us again, please!”

The downside (apart from the fact that Wisconsin may now be laughed at for more than just being Wisconsin) is that this may well be an indicator of things to come in November… in spite of the magic underwear, the dog on the roof and all the other skeletons in his closet, Mitt Romney might very well be found at the wheel of our collective clown car as it continues its merry jaunt over the edge.

We. Need. Moar. Puppehs. Nao.

Basset puppy and the Mighty Fenwang!

I feel much better now.

It speaks volumes about the decline of the American Experiment, that we must hope for a criminal indictment to demonstrate that democracy has a price tag, and 99% of us don’t have the cash to buy it.

Now, if (a big fukkin’ if) the investigators don’t flinch, and the truth really is what seems to be true, then this whole sad, sick scene might turn out a whole lot more entertaining than Gingrich bankruptcy.

Sad but not surprised at the results. Whomever has the most money wins, and when you get outspent three to one, the odds are against you big time.

I didn’t realize how little Wembley was when he was a baby dog! Fenway was twice his size. I laughed out loud when Fenway put his big fat paw on Wembley’s head to get better traction on the rope. And yay for Wembley not giving up.

That IS the lesson you were trying to teach us, right TBogg? To keep fighting against the big guys even when they step on our heads and push us around? To play it smart and catch them when they think they’ve won?

That was my take on the whole thing, anyway.

Everbody knows that the first beer of the morning is the best beer of the day. Now off to work. Damn school bus don’t drive itself.

Fenway played so nicely!

We all have much to learn from young Wembley.

Awww. Along with ponies, I never want puppies to grow up.

Wembley is so cute. And Fenway is just so good…

Nobody kisses ass like the Toddler (Now that Russert’s dead, anyway).

Walker may still be governor, but he no longer has a lockstep legislature:

http://my.firedoglake.com/phoenix/2012/06/06/gop-and-buddies-spend-tens-of-millions-result-wisconsin-senate-now-in-democratic-control/

This will make Walker a lot more reluctant to call a special session to ram through any more ALEC or Koch bills. And with his being the target of a Federal criminal investigation, the Republicans may have spent $40 to $100 million — money they now don’t have to spend on Mitt or Congressional/Senate races or anything else — for worse than nothing.

Awww, puppy Wembley! Fenway the good? I remember back when Fenway was considered the rebel of the Bogg-dog family…ah good times.

But, yeah, this makes me feel better, too.

Also, too…living in the real world…I couldn’t follow the returns and the pundits commentizing last night because I had a yoga class followed by dinner at our town’s best Japanese restaurant to say farewell to a member of the class moving out of state. Didn’t get home til 11:00 pm, and actually had such a good time – being w people IRL, talking, trading stories—IRL, I say! — I’d forgotten about Wisconsin for the time being.

Unfortunately, this IRL thingy is a big reason people don’t get involved or don’t have enough information to make good voting decisions. For most people, real life far trumps political life. Oh well; tomorrow is another day.

I especially like Wembley’s ear-scratching near the end. What an intelligent feint that was.

“Don’t pay any more attention to me, Fenway. U haz defeated me and I am’n't going to bother u any moar….”

I’m honestly not depressed by the recall results. I’m disappointed we didn’t kick him out, sure, but look at it this way: Walker would have only been the third successfully recalled governor in history. Koch and Co. spent $40 mil just to keep his ass from getting booted out of office, winning by basically the same margin against the guy he beat last time. Oh, and he lost control of the state senate for his troubles. I think the recall itself was a good thing, on the balance-it got Wisconsin Dems motivated and gave them a good lesson in how to run one of these things and how to not make mistakes next time.

Did Chuck Todd have anything to say when Frank Luntz convened a “how to obstruct the President” meeting of GOP congressmen before the inaugural? Or when House Republicans took to the balcony with screams of “repeal!” the minute Health Care Reform passed the vote hurdles?

Seems “letting a vote run its course” is only when Republicans like the outcome. Again.

Yeah, that silver lining just keeps getting…silverier. ;-)

I don’t get the surprise/disappointment/hindsight-driven regret I’ve been seeing from Team Blue around the intertubes today. We forced them to spend $30 million bucks on something they already owned and kept the Kochsucker under the microscope for several months. Getting the senate keeps Walker from trying to pull any special-session legislative bullshit over the summer. It’s not going to hurt Obama at all, and with a little luck it might tempt the Republicans into throwing a lot of money into a state they can’t win in November anyways.

You don’t fight just because you think you can win. You fight because it’s the right thing to do, and in this case doing nothing would have been worse.

Yay, video!!!!!!! Oh lord they’re cute. Thanks, I needed that.

Forget about politics; I need to know how come the ears don’t get mixed up in all the chewing and tugging. Quite frankly, that would be my strategy.

The world wouldn’t be just if the puppy didn’t win!

Well, the only condolence I get from the WI results is knowing that the “winners” will lose, along with the rest of us. Obviously, the typical Republican voter hasn’t figured it out yet. Eventually, they will.

And the Celts beating the Heat in Miami last night certainly helped to blunt the pain

“Scott Walker has all the charisma, appeal and charm of your average pet turtle. ”
This, of course, is what makes my comment just that much funnier.

Unless *I’m* mistaken and misreading it, Chuck Todd actually stumbled on the most important stat: A lot of the votes for Walker were protest votes against the recall itself. That blows to hell the conventional line that walker has won a mandate for ending collective bargaining, which is what CNN pinheads IMMEDIATELY said was the “takeaway” last night.