The tell happened a couple weeks ago. Tom Friedman wrote a column directing the enviros to prepare a wish list of “other” demands in the event of an unfavorable Keystone decision.

Wouldn’t be surprised if that was “leaked” to him by “highly placed” administration officials.

There are plenty of reasons to distrust the polling coming out of Marquette Law School.
http://fightingbob.com/weblog.cfm?PostID=4356

Scroll down to Marquette
http://www.fightingbob.com/weblog.cfm?PostID=4387

And btw, from the Marquette poll site itself, this:
From the Marquette poll website expalining the poll:

“That lead falls slightly short of statistical significance [my emphasis]. The poll was taken May 23-26, with most interviews completed before last Friday’s first gubernatorial debate, and has a margin of error of +/- 4.1 percentage points.”

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_58ded18c-aa82-11e1-8293-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1wO4A2QJ2

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Just couldn’t get past the first hundred pages. I tried, I gave it a chance, but there are so many books to read and so little time.

Tartine Bakery
http://www.tartinebakery.com/

You’re welcome!

Thousand Points of Light, people. Bush the Elder peddled that one, if you recall.

How about protest t-shirts? Remember those women tossed from a Bush rally for wearing protest tees? They won their case, IIRC.

Can I see a show of hands how many use these boy drugs? You’d think the entire male population in this country needs a boost to have sex.

Are you paid by the word?

It amuses me greatly that one of the key words for this post is Boxed Wine

As I understand the appointment process, the new justice has to stand for election in the first year in which there is no other supreme court election occurring.

Here’s the problem—six of the seven justices were present. Two of them are liberals, Bradley and Abrahamson. (The missing justice, Crooks, is in their camp more often than not.) The remaining justices are conservative and it would not surprise me to see them close ranks, they’ve already been shown to have little in the way of ethics.

If you have a moment, this comment at the local rag was written by an old political insider and is worth the read as he gets right to the heart of what was transpiring when Prosser crossed the big bright line that should lead to a conviction and removal from office:

What we are seeing here is the breakdown of the separation of powers.
The leadership of the House and Senate ‘directed’ the Supreme Court to
present its opinion on Walker’s budget no later than the following
Tuesday. From the Friday when the directive was made public through
that Tuesday, sources say, Prosser caucused with Executive and
Legislative leaders and together they wrote the opinion. This enraged
Chief Justice Abrahamson. Supreme Court decisions are written by the
Supreme Court, not the Legislature and not the Governor.
It was at a meeting of six of the seven Justices to discuss this broaching
of the separation of powers in the guise of an ‘independent’ opinion of
the Supreme Court that Prosser claims he defended himself from an
attack by the sixty two year old female Justice Bradley. The contretemps
are interesting. The scandal, however, is frightening, and so far
unreported:
the Executive and Legislative branches of government effectively
bypassed the Judiciary and stripped the rights and privileges from
hundreds of thousands of citizens without independent Judicial review.
That is the scandal. The disgrace is that the leadership of the Executive
and Legislative branches went along with it, and the Chief Justice did not
immediately notify the public of it.
What is left is a fall back position, envisioned by the Founders and the
only business protected by the constitution: the press. Think of it as the
Fourth Branch. When the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches fail
us as they have, we can count on our independent press.
Well, can’t we?

A bit more background on the WI Prosser assault. Six of the seven state supreme court justices were in Bradley’s chambers when this happened. This means there were four observing. Three of them are conservatives, the fourth Justice Shirley Abrahamson, the other target of Prosser’s hate.

I’m expecting the conservatives will close ranks around him. Ends justify the means, after all.

Excuse me but are you whinging because legal procedural steps were taken? Point me to where you’ve made a similar complaint when your side plays with procedure, you know, like using “emergency” notice provisions in the state open meetings law to exclude other lawmakers from debate or vote.

Also just heard on WI public radio that the General Accountability Board overseeing the recalls is investigation two of the Republican candidates running against seated Dems (the retaliatory recalls, I’d call them) due to irregularities in their filing papers.

That’s good news.

Latest news on the Prosser assault on Justice Bradley. The Dane County Sheriff and DA now are in charge of the investigation. In addition, a formal complaint is underway before the state judicial commission.

Anything short of putting Ann Walsh Bradley in stocks and stripping her of her seat will not satisfy the loonies, but putting the lefty Dane County officials in charge will make the wingnuts’ heads explode.

Frankly, I’m more afraid the DA will move too cautiously on this, will overcompensate and give Prosser a pass.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_49189bde-a0f1-11e0-b2c2-001cc4c03286.html