The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

Former Fed economist, covering economics and politics in the Badger state, data geek, common sense is my super power.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@wisconsin_now Total word salad. The hits just keep coming.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

Guy just got elected six days ago and already he's concluded that the Democratic Party runs like the mafia: "the big D Democratic Party needs a little d democracy."

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

I can’t believe a Democrat is already exposing his own party like this

Don Leonard, the Democrat who just won Ohio’s 15th District, says senior House Democrats warned him what happens if he won’t back Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker:

“Making my life a living heII for the next two years here in Washington as well as being sure to lose my election”

He says they “expect you to wear the team jersey” and “be a good team player”

They don’t want representatives, they want obedience

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@yount1130 Investigative journalism with benefits.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@VickiMcKenna @journalsentinel It was an under-the-covers investigation of Barnes.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

So a @journalsentinel reporter slept with a candidate she was reporting on. So much comedy gold here, GOLD! (he says in a Kenny Bania voice):

- The Journal story on Mandela Barnes was an under-the-covers investigation.

- Journal editor to reporter: "Is this story an exclusive or a threesome?"

- The Journal has high standards. The rest of the legacy media has an incestuous relationship with the Democrats. The Journal's is consetual.

- What do the Milwaukee Journal and Washington Post have in common? Deep throat.

Badda-bing!

The jokes just write themselves.

https://t.co/Se3GavPAx0

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

For at least 15 years Wisconsin Democrats have been running on Medicaid expansion. Now, just a week after the election, we find out that it will be really expensive and much harder than they claimed. Funny that.

With hat tip to @RantyAmyCurtis

https://t.co/nMwSFYhQrc

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

Jamie Dimon gets it.

[Garrett Wright @garrxttt]

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns America is heading down the same path as Europe: “Excessive regulations, bureaucracy, anti-business behavior, anti-innovation. We should not allow that to happen here.” 🇺🇸

“One of the reasons Europe has slowed down so dramatically compared to us is because of excessive regulations, bureaucracy, anti-business behavior, and anti-innovation.

You see that happening around the world. We should not allow that to happen here.

We’ve got to get involved in Washington, D.C., and change how we handle government.

Government departments should report to you and say, ‘Dear taxpayer, you gave me $50 billion. I told you I’d do X. Here’s what I did. Here are the outcomes.’

We don’t do that. But why not?

I think we’ve lost our way, and we should try to get back on track.

It’s more important than anything else we can do to make sure this great country stays great.”

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@JasonSzemborski @ConservativesWi Don't be so sure. Pension fund raids in Illinois are commonplace and that state is even more dominated by public employee unions than Wisconsin (at least now).

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@GhaleonQ Joel Kotkin has written extensively on this--cities increasingly consist of the childless elites and the very poor with no middle class. You can see this in Milwaukee. A first mile from the lake for elites. The rest of the city is desperately poor.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

Pretty close to my views on the election. See in particular the part on Iran (excerpt below) but better yet, read the whole thing:

https://t.co/mUFB3vycYu

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@LoganWisc Same thing in Milwaukee when "activists" stopped the development of a computer research center on the site of an abandoned Wal-Mart on the north side.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@deaninwaukesha Anyone paying attention could have seen this coming from a mile away.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

Here's a question:

Suppose Wisconsin had elected socialist Francesca Hong as governor. In what ways would her actions and policies been different from that of David Crowley?

No, I can't think of any differences either.

[Dan O'Donnell @DanODonnellShow]

Wisconsin Governor-Elect David Crowley confirms he will repeal Act 10 and Right to Work legislation. When told that will raise taxes by $2 billion every year, Crowley responds with "We're gonna couple all of this with a blue ribbon commission."

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@thededricknealy @DanODonnellShow @WisDems Voter ID alone is a non-starter for the Democrats so no need to consider the details.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

Hard to believe anything he says.

[Jason Calvi @JasonCalvi]

Wisconsin Gov.-elect David Crowley flip flops on Congressional redistricting next year.

2025, to me: "No, we're not going forward with redistricting mid-cycle."

Now: "If the bill was to reach my desk, I will sign it."

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@WillFlandersWI You misheard. It's not a blue ribbon commission but a "blue" ribbon commission--Fran Hong, Kelda Roys, Sara Rodriguez's accountant, various other far-left figures. The numbers will be whatever David Crowley wants them to be.

[The Badger Pundit 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @JamesBohnWI]

@wiz_political I just want it to hold together for 25 years. Around then I'll be checking out. You young people are screwed--totally.