It's not that the GOP Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly
can't win a fight against the GOP Governor and holder-of-all cards Scott Walker.
It isn't another obvious fact - - that Assembly Democrats won't stand with Vos, given that the Assembly under Vos's control voted down every amendment proposed by Democrats to the 2017-'19 state budget.
The craziest thing about Vos's meltdown into a second day isn't that his behavior and language are so ridiculously and exceptionally inflammatory.
The stupidest, most self-defeating thing about the limb on which Vos is both sitting on and sawing through is that the Speaker is complaining about the process by which his own party adopted the budget when that same document's text awards and then subsidizes his Racine-area district with the unprecedentedly-huge, multi-billion-dollar Foxconn project.
With first dibs on the deal's promised hiring, payroll, business spinoff, educational and housing dividends.
An an extra bonus - - a quarter of a billion dollars of state transportation money in obvious short supply statewide to widen and otherwise rebuild I-94 North and South, plus bigger interchanges and modernized frontage roads across Vos's own district.
This taxpayer-provided bonanza chipped into by the good people from Chippewa Falls to River Falls to Madison to Manitowoc is the Wisconsin moon and stars, the BadlgerLand's whole nine yards, the whole ball of Bucky's wax and it will be shipped for years and years to Vos's own backyard less than 30 miles from the Illinois state line - - far, far away from the fiscally-strapped, high-unemployment counties north of Highway 29 where Republicans pitch small government and austerity, but mine for donations and votes - - but ignore the rest of the time.
How much deeper into a hole of his own making can one obtuse, unaware and ungrateful state legislator and leader keep digging?
can't win a fight against the GOP Governor and holder-of-all cards Scott Walker.
It isn't another obvious fact - - that Assembly Democrats won't stand with Vos, given that the Assembly under Vos's control voted down every amendment proposed by Democrats to the 2017-'19 state budget.
The craziest thing about Vos's meltdown into a second day isn't that his behavior and language are so ridiculously and exceptionally inflammatory.
The stupidest, most self-defeating thing about the limb on which Vos is both sitting on and sawing through is that the Speaker is complaining about the process by which his own party adopted the budget when that same document's text awards and then subsidizes his Racine-area district with the unprecedentedly-huge, multi-billion-dollar Foxconn project.
With first dibs on the deal's promised hiring, payroll, business spinoff, educational and housing dividends.
An an extra bonus - - a quarter of a billion dollars of state transportation money in obvious short supply statewide to widen and otherwise rebuild I-94 North and South, plus bigger interchanges and modernized frontage roads across Vos's own district.
This taxpayer-provided bonanza chipped into by the good people from Chippewa Falls to River Falls to Madison to Manitowoc is the Wisconsin moon and stars, the BadlgerLand's whole nine yards, the whole ball of Bucky's wax and it will be shipped for years and years to Vos's own backyard less than 30 miles from the Illinois state line - - far, far away from the fiscally-strapped, high-unemployment counties north of Highway 29 where Republicans pitch small government and austerity, but mine for donations and votes - - but ignore the rest of the time.
How much deeper into a hole of his own making can one obtuse, unaware and ungrateful state legislator and leader keep digging?