UPDATE: The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky:

The Sunday Mail.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

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John Dillon’s Pension Vocabulary: “Who’s on first?” The Springfield art of finger-pointing and double talk.

My old Atlanta buddy Jim Skillman wrote an op-ed piece for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. They wouldn’t print it. He wrote that all freedom loving

Washington Post editorial: Illinois Dems are a problem for the national party on the eve of the DNC.

by Fred Klonsky

The Washington Post editorial today: The Democrats Pension Dilemma.

For the party of activist government, the competing interests of their public-sector union backers and their other constituents spell trouble, in both political and policy terms. It’s a conflict that Democrats may be uniquely well positioned to resolve, given their close ties to unions — or uniquely incapable of resolving, for the same reason. As the experience of California and Illinois shows, it’s an 

Ryan and Scott Walker’s Janesville GM blooper revisited.

by Fred Klonsky

Back in January I posted a story of Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Blooper.
Who knew the story would blow up again at last week’s Republican National Convention?
In January Walker put up a giant billboard right in front of the shuttered Janesville General Motors plant. The billboard claimed that Walker Creates Jobs for Wisconsin. A claim not exactly supported by the Wisconsin employment data.  It was such a stupid and embarrassing thing to do that the Walker campaign quickly had the

Ten minute drawing. Romney borrows slogan from the Ku Klux Klan.

by Fred Klonsky

Atlantic Magazine. The Trouble with Keeping America American.