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Why then, on the eve of the most important domestic policy debate in a generation, are the President’s advisers talking about Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News? Is this really a common interest and concern among Americans? Would the average voter consider this form of politics to be big or small?

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Would any Republican be willing to force compliance with Constitutional Law in full force and effect? I don’t think that these liars would. And this comment is coming from a registered Republican and supporter of 32 years.

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It is precisely because Governor Doyle raided the segregated transportation fund to pay for other programs that the fund is running a massive shortfall. Between 2003 and 2009, Doyle used over $1.3 billion in one-time money from the transportation fund to fuel non-transportation related spending. Doyle’s solution for the shortfall is a new tax on oil companies that has twice been rejected by the legislature.

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The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Realizing that they had just voted themselves out of jobs, union members began calling for another vote – but IAM headquarters in Chicago immediately shut them down.

A day late and a dollar short, Governor Jim Doyle issued a statement claiming he had done all he could to keep Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac. Doyle outlined demands that Mercury Marine create and retain 2,700 jobs and maintain a significant presence in Fond du Lac for 12 years. In exchange the state would provide unspecified financial incentives.

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The Liberty Tree Lantern has received reports that Dr. Steve Kagen has been seen walking around like a zombie after the two “listening sessions” in Green Bay and Appleton Wisconsin.

Here are some of the discussions that we have been able to procure for our readership regarding Dr. Kagen and his fellow Democrats:

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If government-run health care is such a great idea, why won’t members of Congress enroll their own families?

The question has been on the minds of many Americans, but Democrats aren’t giving answers. Instead, they are exempting themselves from their own health care “reform.”

The Affordable Health Choices Act drafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s staff and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee pushes “Americans into stingy insurance plans with tight, HMO-style controls,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

At the same time, Page 114 of the act specifically exempts members of Congress from the public plan.

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A USA Today/Gallup Poll out Tuesday morning delivers some bad news for Barack Obama.

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Yesterday, the Senate passed a budget that was approved by a Conference Committee on a 17 to 15 vote with your senator, Dave Hansen voting in favor. A Conference Committee is a panel of legislators formed to iron out differences between the Senate and Assembly when they pass different budgets. The budget that came out of that committee raises taxes over $2 billion, property taxes an additional $1.5 billion, and increases government spending by nearly 7 percent. As well, there are non-fiscal policy provisions that changed in this budget compared to the Senate and Assembly versions, including those dealing with automobile insurance. This change is very important for Northeast Wisconsin drivers who, if it is enacted into law, will be paying higher insurance rates to subsidize high risk drivers in areas like Milwaukee.

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Over 5000 protesters, all extremely civil, with peaceful reserve but with detirmination yet only socially positive intent, went through the Wisconsin State Capitol trying and wanting to have a word or three with their representatives who ran away in fear. These Socialist despotic tyrants don’t even have the guts to talk or spend a few minutes with their own constituents who only care about their country, their families, our freedom, liberty, and quality of life in the State of Wisconsin.

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Last week, Sen. Johanns introduced a budget amendment to prohibit the use of reconciliation for cap-and-trade, and it passed on a solid 67-31 vote. Every Republican supported the amendment, as did 26 Democrats. Before the Johanns amendment passed, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated he wanted to do both cap-and-trade and health care under reconciliation, saying that cap-and-trade revenues would be “exactly how much we need for the first phase of health care reform.”

Unfortunately, THERE IS NO TIME TO CELEBRATE, because now Democrats are poised to pull the reconciliation trick for their plan to NATIONALIZE AND RATION HEALTH CARE.

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