Huebsch Losing Control of Republican Assembly, Errant Nass

In the past two weeks  Republican Assembly Speaker Michael Huebsch (West Salem) took two body blows from know-nothings in his own party. First his hand-picked  thug designated to trash the University of Wisconsin System, Stephen Nass (Whitewater), turned on him when the Speaker negotiated a budget agreement with the Senate Democrats and Governor James Doyle in less than a week, rather than an eon.

Nass, who received quality committee appointments from Huebsch, who hoped to quiet the billy goat, lashed out, as reported in the  Sauk Prarie Eagle:

"Sen. Decker has criticized big business for using accounting gimmicks, but his fake morality regarding economics doesn't apply to state government," fumed Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, in a press release. "However, I am more shocked that Speaker Mike Huebsch would again sell out the Republican principles on taxation and government spending."

Then came the Republican Convention last weekend, and a broadside, as reported by Boots and Sabers, Congressman Sensenbrenner Hits Speaker Huebsch For Budget Repair Bill:

Unfortunately, Speaker Huebsch decided to push it [the budget repair bill] through the Assembly.

You have to love it. Huebsch who tried to shore up his right flank by saying , "No," when Wisconsin Manufactures and Commerce (WMC) agreed with the health care industry that the 'hospital tax' was worthwhile since it would bring  $420 million of new federal funds to Wisconsin.

All of this means that the math does not compute for Huebsch's future.  If the Democrats gain control of the Assembly, he is out. If the Republicans retain control of the Assembly, it will only be with more Nass clones, so he is out.

Which proves that the extreme right wing of the Republican Party is so disconnected from reality that they make the Weather Underground of the late 1960's look like mah jong playing grandmothers.

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Comments

[Goof Ticket]

I think the GOP is going to be scrambling, across the nation, to replace the neocon leaders, in state houses.
They have to purge these radicals, or they will lose even more control, in the next decade.
Here in Wisconsin, the Huebsch led Assembly though it would be cute, to play obstructionist, like McConnell and Bohner have done in Washington.
Wisconsin is not happy with that kind of elected officials. We pay them, good money, to work...not play procedural games.
The WIsconsin Republican Party has also, allowed a large 527 issue ad group to set the agenda, and control the money.
Enter WMC.
Shame is the method to defeat the GOP. They must be denounced, for this kind of behavior, and given 'pink slips' this fall, to let them know; we are not amused.
The very few moderates, within Wisconsin's GOP have a fight ahead...and they know it.
Yet, the WMC & folks like Huebsch, will let the party lose, rather than accept the change that is wanted.
While they refuse to admit their mistakes, the voters have no problem in doing, just that.

The GOP 2008 platform is nothing but another embarassing, hot button list of non-issues.

[Fraley]

the extreme right wing of the Republican Party is so disconnected from reality that they make the Weather Underground of the late 1960's look like mah jong playing grandmothers.

Leave it to Paul Soglin to use a Republican skirmish as a vehicle to say that conservatives within that party are actually worse than a notorious and despicable leftist domestic terrorist group.

The fact that you engage in such relativism goes a long way in explaining your crusade against the job providers in Wisconsin.

[Sven]

job providers

What a great and skeezy euphemism (amenable to all sorts of connotations and prefixes). to Remarkably, I never see "jobs provided" as a line entry in corporate annual reports or stock prospecti.

[Sven]

"job providers"

What a great and skeezy euphemism (amenable to all sorts of connotations and prefixes). to Remarkably, I never see "jobs provided" as a line entry in corporate annual reports or stock prospecti.

[nonheroicvet]

Whats so notorious and despicable about mah jong playing grandmothers?

[Mr. Pelican Pants]

Hmm...interesting comparison since it was your radical, lefty buddies - like the Weather Underground - who bombed Sterling Hall.

You stay soggy, Mr. Soglin.