Reader Opinion: Resist the grift

The GOP’s accidental grift gift

Republican willingness to blow up the deficit to give corporations and the super wealthy bigger tax cuts removes any remaining credibility of criticizing Americans’ basic needs as unaffordable. [Editor’s Note: Subscribe to our weekend political newsletter, “Sunday Mornings with Pat Kreitlow” — and catch our daily radio show, “Mornings with Pat Kreitlow” weekdays from 6-9am on stations across Wisconsin on the Civic Media radio network, on our Fac…

Reader Opinion: Resist the grift

If I was the boss of everything, I'd give that $400 million plane — golden toilets and showers and sinks and everything — to that deported child with cancer; and give two dolls and a pencil to the president. Many of us have wished to be boss of everything for just one minute (or president for one day). He's like a black hole for morals — when people get too close to him, their morals are sucked right out of them, gone for good. An example is poo…