I am sure that any day now, Paul Ryan will get off the toilet he has sat on since the week's leading up to his 2012 vice presidential run, and say something very very profound. After all, he can't spend the rest of his life barging into soup kitchens, pulling clean pots and pans from the wall, and posing for shameless photo-ops.
"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
Lake Michigan in winter
Milwaukee skyline
Corporate WI wants the water
Big business, firmly in control of all three branches of Wisconsin government, is launching a permanent grab for water that the state constitution says belongs to all the people. Will the big donors prevail, too? An earlier warning, here.
Banned in Milwaukee
The right, suburbanites say "No light rail for Milwaukee."
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James Rowen is an independent writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as the senior Mayoral staffer in Madison and Milwaukee and for newspapers in both cities. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007.
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"Not-a-policy wonk" and "not-a-numbers-guy" empty suit Paul Ryan say something meaningful?
IMPOSSIBLE!
Scott Walker missed his own "profiles in courage" moment. And it seems that many in the GOP, including Ryan, intend to miss it as well.
I am sure that any day now, Paul Ryan will get off the toilet he has sat on since the week's leading up to his 2012 vice presidential run, and say something very very profound. After all, he can't spend the rest of his life barging into soup kitchens, pulling clean pots and pans from the wall, and posing for shameless photo-ops.
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